How many years has it been since your last diction class? This handy guidebook is an easy reference for the symbols used in IPA: what they look like and how they are pronounced. Example words for every symbol are included in English, Latin, Italian, German, French, and Spanish. And an online resource includes recorded demonstrations of every sound. A clear and concise tool for singing in foreign languages, equally useful in the choir room and the vocal studio. / Formation Musicale

Jean-Luc Daumard (b. 1951) is a French musician and pedagogue. His ground-breaking book Solfège Prendre (Making Solfege) is a workbook containing a series of exercises designed for beginners letting the young musician record their progress as they develop their understanding of musical theory. Each fun exercise is written clearly in large font with simple language and clear pictures making it easy for learners of any age to comprehend. In French.

A Holiday Musical for Young Voices-The welcome mat is out and everyone is invited! From candles burning and carolers singing to a fifteen foot buffet and jingle bells ringing share the traditions of the season with this charming 15-minute holiday musical forprimary grades. Five original songs and clever rhyming narration allow for easy preparation and limited rehearsal time. The Teacher's Manual features full piano/vocal arrangements narration and staging suggestions and the handyReproducible Pak comes complete with vocal lines lyric sheets and narration ... everything your ?stars on stage? need to present a wonderful show for family and friends. Use the professionally produced orchestrationby John Higgins on the performance/accompaniment CD for extra seasonal sparkle! Receive all three components in the handy Classroom Kit for dollar-stretching value.Performance Time: 15 minutes. For Gr. K-4.

Reinforce Fundamentals with Boomwhackers and Other Classroom Instruments-Grab your Boomwhackers« for loads of whacky fun while reinforcing steady beat high/low fast/slow and loud/soft! Easy-to-follow read and play instrument parts will keep students actively involved for hours of basic boomin' fun. Beginning readers follow full color song charts of instrument pictures while more advanced readers play from musical notation. This ten song collection features a variety of musical styles from folk and spirituals to blues reggae rock and more! Five of these songs also include vocal parts. All parts are reproducible and projectable! Features DIGITAL ACCESS to audio recordings with and without classroom parts and PDFs of the instrument and vocalparts for a variety of classroom and performance options. All you need is a C Major Diatonic Scale set of Boomwhackers] and a few classroom instruments and you're ready to go! Your students will love boomin' the basics all year long! Suggested for Grades K-5. ScorePlay - click to view score with recording.

The Bucket Book is a groundbreaking new resource for elementary and middle school general music classes. This inventive program is designed to help teachers and students discover the joy of creating music and the fun of using homemade or found instruments to do so. Fully reproducible, and including a Data CD with 30 MP3s of musical examples and a PDF of the book for projection and enhanced classroom learning, The Bucket Book curriculum teaches rhythm skills and percussion techniques using easy-to-teach lessons that do not require a percussion background. Detailed information, photos, and resources are provided to acquaint educators with percussion vocabulary and techniques. The activities will engage and delight your students as they explore different timbres and search for the next great sound or rhythm they can produce with their instruments. For teachers wishing to provide their students with a creative, high-quality music education, The Bucket Book is an outstanding resource! / Formation Musicale

A workbook covering the 3 main topics of Grade 7: Figuring the Bass Bach's Chorale and Trio Sonata.An easy step-by-step approach with real musical excerpts many taken from past exam papers makes this ideal exam preparation as well as an invaluable stand-alone resource.

Originally published in 2003 and now revised and updated The Songwriting Sourcebook is the third entry in Rikky Rooksby's bestselling How to Write Songs series. This easy-to-use book will help you write better songs by explaining the art of writing effective chord sequences. It shows:How three and four chords can lay the foundation for a simple song and how to move on to progressions using five and six chordsHow to give your chord sequences additional color by adding chords that are not strictly in key including blues chordsHow to write chord sequences for songs in minor keys as well as major keys and how totake progressions into new territories by changing keyHow to fine-tune the color of your chords by understanding the emotional potential of sevenths sixths and ninthsAll examples come with easy-to-read guitar chord boxes and the accompanying 20-track audio CD features original recordings that illustrate some of the points made in the book.

Here's a great way to learn about orchestra and band instruments while you have fun colouring. It's easy with the realistic illustrations shown in this instructive and entertaining colouring book.Contains 44 black-and-white line illustrations with captions describing each instrument.

What a wonderful way to address the National Standards while using your interactive whiteboard! Integrate technology into your classroom with these well-constructed interactive lessons that provide a smooth and easy way to teach improvisation and composition to elementary students (grades 1--4). Each plan starts with a song, chant, or poem - provides prompts for active listening - invites students to improvise as a group and individually - and concludes with a rubric-measured assessment. Kids will have so much fun singing and moving to the songs, playing classroom instruments, and manipulating the cartoon-style graphics on the interactive whiteboard. / Formation Musicale

Songpack is one of the most successful resources for classroom music-making on the market. The song-based package actively encourages participation and offers ideas on performing listening and inventing thus fulfillingrequirements of the Programmes Of Study and GCSE syllabus. Forty songs ranging from pop and folksongs to film and show tunes. Titles include Sailing When I’m Sixty Four Morning Has Broken Rivers Of Babylon and many more.Each song is prefaced by teacher’s notes giving helpful hints on rehearsal and performance project work and listening activities. In addition to the songs and keyboard accompaniment there are easy parts for recorder and tunedpercussion plus melody parts in Bb. The pupil’s book gives the melody line optional counter-melody plus guitar chords.

Songpack is one of the most successful resources for classroom music-making on the market. The song-based package actively encourages participation and offers ideas on performing listening and inventing thus fulfillingrequirements of the Programmes Of Study and GCSE syllabus. Forty songs ranging from pop and folksongs to film and show tunes. Titles include ‘Sailing’ ‘When I’m Sixty Four’ Morning Has Broken’ ‘Rivers Of Babylon’ and many more.Each song is prefaced by teacher’s notes giving helpful hints on rehearsal and performance project work and listening activities. In addition to the songs and keyboard accompaniment there are easy parts for recorder and tunedpercussion plus melody parts in Bb. The pupil’s book gives the melody line optional counter-melody plus guitar chords.

Do you want to learn how to improvise jazz? Then this is the play-along for you! Easy to understand and inspiring for all musicians wishing to explore the secrets of jazz improv. The first CD includes blues in Bb and F four dorian minor tracks four-measure cadences the cycle of dominants 24-measure song II/V7 in all keys and Jamey Aebersold playing exercises from the book (Hear the master clinician demonstrate exactly how it's done). French Edition.

Get the rock-solid fundamentals of pitch rhythm and harmony in this easy-to-use method complete with a supporting CD.Learn the universal language of written music as used by musicians everywhere regardless of the instrument. You'll find concise detailed explanations illustrations and written exercises with a wealth of practice drills to help you memorise and understand the essentials. Learn how to:Construct chords scales and intervalsIdentify major and minor key centres and common chord progressionsAccurately play various rhythm feels and figuresUse the basic principles of form and compositional analysis