SKU: HL.140879

ISBN 9781495008306. UPC: 888680041472. 8.5x11.0x0.252 inches. By John Jacobson and Roger Emerson.

This is the day! Jump in. Pump up the pumpkin. Do a little holiday hop. Put a little spring in your life! Bring John Jacobson into your music class every day with step-by-step online video demonstrations of twelve active seasonal songs for movin' fun all year! There are helpful teacher tips, reproducible lyric sheets and piano/vocal accompaniments with printed choreography notes; now all available in one cost-saving Book/CD pak! Sing along with John and a group of children as you learn each song; then perform for others with the accompaniment-only song tracks! Songs include: This Is the Day, Jump In, Fallin' Into Fall, Pump Up the Pumpkin, The Holiday Hop, Circle of Light, A Brand New Me, February, Put a Little Spring in Your Life, Spring Up, All I Wanna Do Is Dance, Feelin' Good. Suggested for Grades K-3. Come along and you will see - it's a brand new me! ScorePlay - click to view score with recording.

SKU: PR.11441378S

UPC: 680160585939. 11 x 14 inches.

Commissioned by Network for New Music, who premiered the work in April 2008, with support from Philadelphia Music Project, an Artistic Initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts, administered by the University of the Arts.
“Song and Dance” began its life as a nascent melody in the late eighties, employing a similar motivic cell as did three of my works written over a period of several years — East Wind, String Quartet No. 2 (Vistas), and Mirage.  At the ore of these three works is the simplest of melodic kernels — a note encircled by its two neighboring tones (and more specifically, a half step above and whole step below).  At the time, I envisioned writing a work for voice, oboe, and marimba, and had just begun it, only to drop it in favor of more pressing compositional assignments. Almost twenty years later, the vocal fragment finally evolved into the “song” of this work, played here by the soprano saxophone.  But it seems that the song, all these years, had been waiting for its counterpart, a dance.  Singing and dancing are two of humankind’s most basic and essential impulses, transcending time and place, reaching back to the earliest civilizations. The resulting composition, “Song and Dance”, moves back and forth between the two, delineating its various parts further with the use of both soprano and alto saxophones, partnered by mallet percussion instruments — mostly vibraphone and marimba, with bells added at the very end of the work.  The song portions return to the same melody, varied and evolved over time, as new materials are introduced in the dance sections, affecting the presentation of the recurring song music. My thanks to the Network for New Music for commissioning this work and allowing me the freedom to choose its format and instrumentation.—Shulamit Ran.