Children's Song Favorites is a collection of 75 songs for children of all ages most of them from the folk tradition. They have been collected over more than fifty years by a professional folk singer who is also a mother andgrandmother. Each song has the melody line complete lyrics and suggested accompaniment chords for guitar or other instrument. Many of them are unusual— for example all 13 verses of 'The Three Blind Mice ' 'Hail to Britannia' (aBritish nursery rhyme song) and for older children 'Chopo My Pony' (a cowboy song) 'Old Thompson's Mule' (of minstrel origin) and 'The Housewife's Lament.' Audience requests have persuaded the author to include two pieces shehas written—'The Doll Song' and 'The Solution to Pollution.' More than three-quarters of the songs involve audience participation making this an ideal repertory resource for teachers and youth leaders. A few descriptivesentences sometimes with suggestions for creative activity precede each song. The songs are arranged alphabetically and an extra table of contents lists the songs by categories: animals cowboys and the West creative activity dance tunes history holidays quiet time and teaching. Although this book was designed primarily for children the author regularly uses many of these songs with grown-up audiences.

Description Suitable for young beginners, this book by S. J. Townshend, provides short exercises in the elementary rudiments of music including questions on clefs and staves, notes and values, accidentals, rests, tones and semitones, introduction to major scales, key signatures, tonic triads, time-signatures and musical terms.

Exam boards: Edexcel AQA OCR WJEC The AS Music Literacy Workbook will develop students??? notational skills to the level necessary to succeed in the exam.This workbook explains the notation of a wide variety of instrumental techniques and includes a whole chapter devoted to score reading.Students will be able to read and understand any classical jazz pop or guitar scores they might come across during their AS studies and beyond.The workbook emphasises learning by doing. It includes numerous scorereading exercises based on jazz and classical music which encourage students to cross-reference their knowledge. The workbook builds towards aseries of exercises and model answers allowing students to check their work.This workbook is tailor made for anyone wanting to develop a grounding in music theory to AS level but is also a refreshing new resource for candidates preparing for higher grade exams in music theory BTEC National and Scottish Higher Grade Music.Rebecca Berkley is a freelance writer and musician and is a music education consultant. She has taught percussion to students of all ages both as a private teacher and as a workshop leader and published percussion music. She is also a choral conductor running several choirs and directing music festivals with her husband. After starting her career as a music teacher in secondary schools she became a lecturer in music education at the University of Southampton and the Institute of Education University of London. Her PhD thesis focused on how GCSE students learn to compose and how best to teach them. She is the co-author of Rhinegold???s Edexcel GCSE Music Listening Tests (Book 3) and contributes as a freelance writer to Classroom Music Magazine.

Once upon a time, a hardworking music teacher was determined to slay the dragons of student doldrums. She looked far and wide for meaningful yet entertaining lessons that would engage her students while addressing the Common Core music standards. One day, she happened upon a set of enchanting books filled with folk tales, fairy tales, nursery rhymes, myths, legends, and more. As they dove into the grade-appropriate literature and music activities, her students became active musicians and lived happily ever after! Each volume of Once Upon a Music Class includes 20 lessons, complete with objectives, procedures, reproducible student pages, and all necessary recordings. Recommended for grades Pre-K through two. / Formation Musicale

Once upon a time, a hardworking music teacher was determined to slay the dragons of student doldrums. She looked far and wide for meaningful yet entertaining lessons that would engage her students while addressing the Common Core music standards. One day, she happened upon a set of enchanting books filled with folk tales, fairy tales, nursery rhymes, myths, legends, and more. As they dove into the grade-appropriate literature and music activities, her students became active musicians and lived happily ever after! Each volume of Once Upon a Music Class includes 20 lessons, complete with objectives, procedures, reproducible student pages, and all necessary recordings. Recommended for grades three through six. / Formation Musicale

Song Collection About Friendship-Mac 'n' Cheese is a special collection of songs by friends about friends. Mac Huff and John Jacobson are life-long friends who both hail from America's Dairyland state of Wisconsin where being called ?Cheese-y? is theultimate compliment! These Mac 'n' Cheese songs are silly inspirational informative and especially kid-friendly. If you're looking for a song about Graduation Remembrance Days holidays summer vacation following your dreamsor making music with your friends you'll find it right here! This collection of 12 songs comes complete with fully accompanied songs choreography reproducible singer sheets and optional narration for each song. Friends andmusic they go together like Mac 'n' Cheese! Available: Song Collection (with reproducible songsheets) and Performance/Accompaniment CD. For Gr. 3-6.

Cahier 4 Piano-Conceived for Piano beginners who have already been introduced to music reading  Le Voyage Magique - Level 4 Traveller follows up on Piano Discoveries - Level 3 A & B Adventurer. Seventh of a series of eight it familiarises the young Pianist to more complex melodies and rhythms to minor chords and minor tonalities and to the techniques of playing. This volume uses the same characters as the previous books who evolve through new illustrations to guide the young pianists. Le Voyage Magique is the translation and adaptation by Stéphane Blet of the American series Piano Discoveries by JanetVogt and Leon Bates. The pedagogy of this book has been studied to be quite close to the language of children in order to develop their interest and concentration. A CD is provided to accompany the player while learning with Le Voyage Magique offering some small melodic pieces to develop a musical ear. Janet Vogt is an American Pianist professor at the College-Conservatory of Music. She also composed pieces for Keyboards for Choirs and some pop music. Leon Bates (born 1949) is a renowned American Pianist who performed with the New York Symphony the Cleveland Symphony and many others. He is also a professor and participated to the conception of this method. Stéphane Blet is an international Solo Pianist who decided to focus on the composition of pieces and on teaching. He is currently professor in the École Normale de Musique “Alfred Cortot”.

Solfège pour l'étude de l'harmonie classique. Par DESPORTES. Precise Harmonic Analysis intends to accompany and aid harmony and analysis classes at conservatoires and other musical institutions. Covering a wide range of aspects, Yvonne Desportes ''s book succeeds in its intentions. As a student of Paul Dukas, Desportes (1907-1993) won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome for harmony in 1932. She then went on to teach at the Paris Conservatoire, compose over 300 works, and publish many music textbooks. Compiled in 1948, Precise Harmonic Analysis addresses intervals, modulations, chords, suspensions, appoggiaturas and echappees, among many other aspects. Thisbook is essential to accompany all intermediate to advanced music studies./ Solfège/Formation Musicale / Formation Musicale

1 Steps to Effective Storytelling-Hit-songwriter/educator Andrea Stolpe shares time-tested tools of commercial songwriting. Her 10-step process will help you craft lyrics that communicate heart to heart with your audience. She analyses hits from artists such asFaith Hill and John Mayer and reveals why they are succesful too - with increased marketability and a more intense connection to your listeners.

The Songs of Fanny Hensel. Fanny Hensel is arguably the most gifted female composer of the nineteenth century, but her music has long been overlooked. The Songs of Fanny Hensel is a groundbreaking collection of new scholarship on Hensel's highly original contributions to the genre of song, the art form that she said "suits her best."

Seasonal Movement and Activity Songs for Kids-From the Hop 'Til You Drop Series comes this collection of 12 seasonal 'get up and go' songs to get your whole body ready to make music all year long! Originally developed for John Jacobson's MUSIC EXPRESS magazine thisall-in-one collection comes complete with piano/vocal arrangements choreography reproducible lyric sheets and helpful lesson plans and performance tips. Use this collection as a warmup routine and your students will be with youfrom the very first note! Available: Song Collection (with reproducible lyric sheets) and Performance/Accompaniment CD. For Gr. K-3.

A continuation of Basic Rhythmic Training this collection of progressive rhythmic drills is designed to increase a music student's proficiency in executing and understanding Rhythm.The exercises begin verysimply and proceed to more complex meters beat divisions and polyrhythms. The book can be used as a supplement to any method or as a drill book for the musician who wishes to solidify and expand his/her rhythmicabilities.

The GCSE Performance Pieces series provides exciting contemporary repertoire levelled specifically for GCSE performance examinations accompanied by expert commentary to help your students prepare and achieve their potential with material they really want to play. This book contains pieces for Voice.  Each book in the GCSE Performance Pieces series has been compiled by an experienced instrumental teacher/examiner and overseen by our Series Editor Andrew Coxon who is a senior GCSE examiner and an experienced classroom teacher. The songs have been carefully chosen to provide students with the bestopportunity to show off their instrument and skills with a broad range of artists and styles to choose from. This Voice book features: Material suitable for all exam boards Ten songs with a range of difficulty appropriate for around Grades 3 to 6 A CD accompaniment of professionally recorded backing tracks so that you can hear exactly how each song is meant to sound allowing you to master every song The book includes a range of songs from 1968's Son Of A Preacher Man to two of Adele's biggest hits Someone Like You and Rolling In The Deep. Every song should be immediately familiar but if not you can enjoy discovering and then singing a great new song. With other songs by Bruno Mars Pixie Lott and Ed Sheeran included this book is perfect for nailing a contemporary song that you enjoy listening to and so will enjoy singing. Every song includes a page of information about it detailing the key range and some really useful performance tips. Helpfully a  YouTube playlist has been created containing all the songs in the book along with additional suggested listening such as interesting cover versions or other

The Musical-Vocal score to Jack! the musical by James Rae and Mike Cornick for voice and piano or guitar. Also includes the script lyrics sheets and CD providing instrumental accompaniments.