Fun Songs for Learning Essential Sight Words-Reading is one of the most critical skills taught in school. An essential goal in developing this skill is making sure students are completely proficient with Sight Words. The popular ?Sing and Learn? series from Hal Leonard presents I Can We Can a creative and motivational resource that uses music to reinforce the learning of essential sight words. The Activity Songbook/Listening CD features reproducible song melodies movement suggestions activities and games all presented in a sequential teaching format. Reproducible song pictures with highlighted Sight Words and illustrations are also included for additional learning reinforcement. The enclosed Listening CDprovides song recordings to listen and sing-along. A CD-ROM is also available either separately or in a Classroom Kit with the Activity Songbook/Listening CD. This Enhanced CD-ROM includes song recordings with singers and without and printable PDFs of singer melodies full color song pictures piano accompaniments activities and artwork. Fun learning through music! Available separately: Activity Songbook/Listening CD Enhanced CD and Classroom Kit. Lessons and activities by Elizabeth Shier; with special thanks to Sarah Giordano for her creative input. Suggested for grades PreK-1.

Most vocal teachers have already discovered Jay's extremely popular Folk Songs for Solo Singers collections. And now Alfred is excited to offer another for vocal students and their Teachers! American Folk Songs for Solo Singers includes an excellent variety of solo material for recitals concerts and contests available in two voicings.  Titles include Bright Morning Stars Down in the Valley to Pray Honey Babe How Can I Keep from Singing? My Lord What a Morning Nine Hundred Miles Old Joe Clark Pretty Little Girl Shenandoah Simple Gifts Sometimes I Feel Like aMotherless Child Sun Don't Set in the Mornin' and The Water Is Wide.

An exciting addition to Alfred Music's I Sing, You Sing echo song series. These 30 call and response songs encompass a wide variety of subjects, including: important everyday lessons (like crossing the street and answering the telephone), music class fundamentals (like the instruments of the orchestra and major vs. minor), and cross-curricular reinforcements (like identifying the continents and multiplying by two). Singers may echo the leader provided on the SoundTrax CD or take turns being leaders themselves---two versions of each song are included on the recording. Recommended for grades K--4. Chord symbols and suggested classroom activities are provided. / Voix

Teach your students to sight-sing with confidence!Set 2 of this popular series expands sight-singing skills to the Keys of D and G with a step-by-step approach through six lessons in each key signature that culminate with a special song students will be able to sight-sing!Helpful Teacher Tips focus on the music concepts being presented provide a suggested teaching sequence to use when presenting each exercise and give keys to sight-singing success. Two student reproducible pages filled with sight-reading exercises are provided for each lesson.After students have perfected the exercises a cappella on their own they can reinforce the learningprocess by performing with the rhythm accompaniment tracks on the enclosed CD. The enhanced CD also offers performance/accompaniment tracks for the 2 songs included plus PDFs of all the sight-singing exercises for projection options. For teachers who are new to this series this material starts at the beginning and assumes no previous sight-singing knowledge.You can start right now!Also available: Sight-Sing a Song: Set 1 (HL09971136) that covers the Keys of C and F.

Based on years of teaching and research this book/CD pack by acclaimed vocal coach Dena Murray provides insightful methods and exercises for attaining vocal mastery.Perfect for all singers - beginners to pros - who want more power in their voice better pitch control and a bigger singing range. With her prior two books this volume forms a complete set of exercises to bring the voice to its full potential.

The two-act zarzuela Marina was premiered on September 21 1855 at Madrid's Teatro Circo. Despite a cool initial reception many musicians could sense its popular potential. Gaztambide wrote to the poet López de Ayala:'Emilio's new zarzuela Marina is most outstanding; a true Spanish Opera sure to please the crowd; it will I'm sure be much liked'. Indeed it was and when the tenor Enrico Tamberlick expressed a wish to play Jorge at the Teatro Real Arrieta had no hesitation in agreeing to expand it into the through-written 3-act form familiar today.

A Guide to Finding Your Real Vioce-Stop straining to hit those high notes and start singing easily and effortlessly. Unlock your true potential With this guide to finding your voice from the Musicians Institute Essential Concepts series. Dena Murray's essential guide will teach you how to breathe naturally how to improve your speaking voice how to develop your natural three-octave range and how to bridge the registers and make them sound like one voice. Includes two CDs with demonstrations guided exercises and plenty of practice tracks.

Teachers Edition. Don't read notes read patterns of sound! This unique sight reading course for treble voices in elementary and early middle school does just that! PATTERNS OF SOUND uses excellent voice leading careful sequencing and musically interesting exercises that can be combined to strengthen part singing pitch relationships and to develop rhythmic independence. Volume 1 starts from square one assuming no previous training with exercises that are so carefully sequenced that the students are quickly singing four-measure phrases and eight measure songs in two parts and finding it easy! Students are introduced to notes rests meter pitch and unison/2-partsongs in Vol. 1 and continue in Vol. 2 with dotted rhythms & syncopation keys & key changes and more 2-part songs. Use it every day and watch your students' confidence level grow! Available: Teacher's Edition (Vol.1) Student Edition (Vol.1) CD (Vol.1) Teacher's Edition (Vol.2) Student Edition (Vol.2). Recommended for Grades 3-8.

Don't read notes read patterns of sound! This unique sight reading course for treble voices in elementary and early middle school does just that! Patterns Of Sound uses excellent voice leading careful sequencing and musically interesting exercises that can be combined to strengthen part singing pitch relationships and to develop rhythmic independence. Volume 1 starts from square one assuming no previous training with exercises that are so carefully sequenced that the students are quickly singing four-measure phrases and eight measure songs in two parts and finding it easy! Students are introduced to notes rests meter pitch and unison/2-part songs in Vol. 1 andcontinue in Vol. 2 with dotted rhythms & syncopation keys & key changes and more 2-part songs. Use it every day and watch your students' confidence level grow! Available: Teacher's Edition (Vol.1) Student Edition (Vol.1) CD (Vol.1) Teacher's Edition (Vol.2) Student Edition (Vol.2). Recommended for Grades 3-8.

30 Songs from the Stage and Screen With Access to Online Audio of Piano Accompaniments-This giant two-volume resource will be indispensable for teachers working with children singing solos. There is a large variety of material from classic Disney songs to Broadway to movie favorites to songs from ?Sesame Street.? Each volume has songs for both girls and boys and includes online audio tracks with Piano accompaniments for each song. In addition the audio contains tempo adjustment and transposition software for use on your computer. Kids' Musical Theatre Collection: Volume 2 includes 30 songs from stage screen and television musicals these are by far Hal Leonard's largest collections of solos for children. Songs inthis volume include: Baby Mine (Dumbo) Be Kind to Your Parents (Fanny) Bein' Green (Sesame Street) Dream for Your Inspiration (The Muppets Take Manhattan) Friend (Snoopy!!!) Gary Indiana (The Music Man) Getting to Know You (The King and I) God Help the Outcasts (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) I Always Knew (Annie Warbucks) I Don't Want to Live on the Moon (Sesame Street) I Won't Grow Up (Peter Pan) and more.

Kenneth Simpson. This collection is divided into ten sections: music - learning music - times and seasons - Christmas - greetings - gusto - drollery - getting around - birds and beasts - and miscellanea. Most of the items are musically straightforward and of moderate compass. / Voix