A Musical Revue Celebrating the Importance of Music in Our Lives-Who are the very best advocates for your school's music programs? The kids! Advocacy is a continuous process of diligent education to bring awareness about the benefits of music learning to the general public. And kids can expertly share the joy of music making and learning in a variety of different ways. The authors worked together to develop a musical revue about the wonder of music. Each of the seven original songs can be performed together as a complete program or they can be sung in other contexts as well. The 30-minute revue includes piano/vocal arrangements with choreography short narrations for up to 65 speaking parts and digital access to student PDFs. To performwith recordings the Performance Kit includes the Teacher Edition and digital access to student PDFs and performance/accompaniment audio recordings. Songs include: Music Is an Everyday Thing Many Things I Learned I Learned Through Music Playing Music Is Hard Work A Song in My Heart Working Together If I Didn't Have Music Our Place in the Choir. In addition to a musical revue the second half of the book is focused on strategies ideas and conversations about the importance of music study in children's and adolescents' lives. There are even writing and advocacy activities to engage students in the promotion of the critical role that music plays in their lives. The ten chapters concentrate on attributes of music education and how children benefit from music study highlighted in the Broader Minded Campaign put forth by the National Association for Music Education (NAfME): Decision Making Grit Multiple Ways of Knowing Creativity Collaboration Communication Critical Thinking Emotional Awareness Reflective Learning and Process Orientation. Suggested for grades 2-6.

Musical Adventures and Universal Lessons-Musical Adventures and Universal Lessons! Fly away with me in a hot air balloon and see how different the world looks from up here! Spin out new adventures from the Caribbean Africa and Europe to Egypt India and China. Learnabout geography music and cultures that may be unfamiliar yet exciting! What might we find if we keep exploring new possibilities? What changes might we make if we stick together as friends and do our best each day? Discover howyou can make a difference! Whether on stage or in the classroom share your adventures and universal lessons with musical styles from around the world set to original songs. Program one or more of the six songs with short set-upnarrations. Expand multicultural learning with standards-based lesson plans recorded and printed student articles and world online video lessons by John Jacobson. The all-inclusive Teacher Book and Enhanced CD offers everythingyou need under one cover including color PDFs of articles and songsheets for classroom projection. Songs include: Fly Away With Me Helping Each Other Freedom Wandering Joy A New World. Suggested for grades 3-6.

Baby Jesus was written as a follow-up to Gold Frankincense and Myrrh. The songs are simple yet colourful and the piano part has been kept easy enough for most school pianists to cope with. Percussion parts will add interest tothe music and give a great sense of achievement to the players. The lyrics are uncluttered and are hence manageable for very young children and those with learning difficulties. Baby Jesus provides a versatile work into whichteachers can input their own ideas. Duration: 25 mins. Script available in student book.You will require a license to perform this work at your school/youth theatre; please click here for more information and our application form.Professionally recorded demonstration and backing tracks are available to purchase and download here .

A Musical for Young Voices-Can't get enough of this ?way out? school where everybody sings and everything's cool! It's the first day of school and new students Michael Michele and Junior are about to discover what the singing is all about. Theprincipal is quite cheery and loves to vocalize!? Everyone's a winner in Jim the Gym teacher's gym and those classical cooks of the cafeteria are always ready to dine. Even the students in detention are singing . . . the blues and the whacky Science class is really rockin'! Upper elementary and middle school performers will rock to ?Harmony High.? Clever original songs zany antics and creative script writing combine for a truly spectacularmoment on stage that will have everyone singing including the audience! Teacher Edition includes piano/vocal arrangements script choreography and helpful production guide. The script with over 20 speaking parts is adaptable togroups of varying sizes and teaching objectives linked to the National Standards are provided for each song. Singer book offers vocal lines and script parts and the performance/accompaniment CD features the highest qualityrecordings. The expanded Performance Kit provides all you need in one convenient package for extra cost-saving value. Available separately: Teacher Edition Singer 5-Pak Preview CD (with vocals) Preview Pak (1 Singer book 1Preview CD) Performance/Accompaniment CD Performance Kit/CD (Teacher 20 Singer books P/A CD). Duration: ca. 40 minutes. Suggested for grades 4-8.

A Blockbuster Musical for Young Voices-Grab your cameras! We're makin' a movie about the one and only Santa Claus ? but what style of movie fits the greatest elfin hero of all time? Thanks to a little help from Cecil B. DeGrille Alfred Pitchfork Steven Reelberg and a few other illustrious filmmakers a young group of aspiring directors experience movie-making like never before from Epic Extravaganza and Film Noir to Spaghetti Western and Super-hero-adventure film. Watch out Hollywood! This musical offers options for a simple or elaborate production including the choice of two endings and suggestions for producing your very own movie. We'll even show youhow! Either way ? it will be a blockbuster! This 40-minute musical features six original songs and connecting script with over 50 speaking parts. The Teacher Edition includes piano/vocal song arrangements and choreography script helpful production guide and teaching objectives linked to the National Standards for each song. For added value the ready-to-use student books include songs and script and will enhance the musical experience for your young aspiring actors/singers! Available separately: Teacher Edition Singer 5-Pak Preview CD (with vocals

Travel back in time and join inquisitive archeologists Taki and Tut and their fossil friend Lucy as they explore the wonders of ancient civilization. From the farm laborers of early Mesopotamia and Egyptian mummies who?rap? to a chorus of ancient Greeks and Romulus and Remus who dream of building a great city you and your students will love discovering the archeological mysteries of the past.Available: Teacher's Edition Singer 5-Pak Preview CD and ShowTrax CD. Performance Time: 35 minutes. For Grades 4-8.

A Musical Caper About Finding a Place to Belong!-Welcome to Camp Runamok and the wackiest summer camp experience you could ever wish for! This musical has everything you love and fear about the summer camp experience from the morning routine to corny camp skits and the ultimatetalent show. Put away your technology and allow this nostalgic romp to take you on a journey of finding a place to belong through the mighty highs and comic lows of Summer Camp! This 40-minute musical features seven originalsongs and connecting script with over 50 speaking parts. The Teacher Edition is filled with quality performance material including piano/vocal song arrangements and choreography script helpful production guide and teachingobjectives linked to the National Standards for each song. For added value the ready-to-use student books include songs and script and will enhance the musical experience for your young aspiring actors/singers! Availableseparately: Teacher Edition Singer 5-pak Preview CD (with vocals

Dominic FARICIER, né en 1978, est titulaire d'une licence de musicologie, d'un DEM (médaille d'or en piano, entre autres) et a poursuivi ses études au CNR de Lyon (accompagnement de piano et écriture) - en 1997 il a obtenu une médaille d'or d'écriture au CNR de Lyon, prix de la SACEM. En 2001 il entre au CNSM de Lyon (classe d'accompagnement de piano) et obtient le DE de formation musicale en 2003. Professeur de piano, de formation musicale et de chant choral (dans les classes maîtrisiennes des Petits Chanteurs de Lyon). Depuis 1995 il accompagne les Petits Chanteurs de Saint-Marc ('Les choristes?...) ainsi que les choeurs de la Primatiale Saint Jean de Lyon. Il a écrit deux contes musicaux et a composé de nombreuses oeuvres musicales pour enfants toujours sur des poèmes de qualité. / Choeur D'Enfants / 44 pages / Partition

Cet ouvrage s'adresse aux meneurs de chant pour différentes structures: choeurs d'enfants, chorales, écoles élémentaires, collèges, écoles de musique. Vous trouverez dans cet ouvrage matière à optimiser le moment de l'échauffement vocal.

21 séquences élaborées autour de trois pôles essentiels: la mise en choeur, le travail corporel et le réveil vocal et dynamique.

Chaque vocalise est enregistrée sur le CD d'une part dans une version interprétée par les enfants avec accompagnement instrumental puis juste la version instrumentale pour que le choeur puisse chanter en play-back. / Méthodes & Etudes Instrumentales / Livre + CD /

A Musical Tweet for Christmas-Email? Text? Post? Tweet? Skype? Christmas is almost here and the entire family is frantic about getting their lists to Santa in time. Exhausted super Mom is ready for an island vacation choked-up Dad doesn't need any moreridiculous ties big brother Axel is on the move and needs some wheels little brother Joey wants a puppy and Grandma and Grandpa want to try out their new matching sweat suits with one of those fancy dance revolution machines.But see how little sister Molly's handwritten letter reminds everyone of the true meaning of the season ? sincerely! Join the holiday hi-tech fun with clever songs hilarious antics and a full evening of entertainment thatwill leave your audience in stitches! This musical ?tweet? is designed for performers in upper elementary and middle school and features 7 original songs and a script with 18 main speaking parts. The Teacher Editionis filled with quality performance material including piano/vocal song arrangements with choreography script helpful production guide and teaching objectives linked to the National Standards for each song. For added value theready-to-use student books include songs and script and will enhance the musical experience for your young aspiring actors/singers! Available separately: Teacher Singer 5-Pak Preview CD Preview Pak Performance/AccompanimentCD and Performance Kit/PACD. Duration: ca. 40 minutes. Suggested for grades 4-8.

A witty and innovative version of the well-known and much-loved pantomime story. Puss In Boots helps the hero Edwin to win the hand of the fair princess by scaring away the nastiest ogre ever who is allergic to cats! There arelead roles to challenge more able pupils and a large cast of non-speaking roles for younger pupils. The play is in rhyme. Duration: 50 mins. Script available in student book.You will require a license to performthis work at your school/youth theatre; please click here for more information and our application form.Professionally recorded demonstration andbacking tracks are available to purchase and download here .

These attractive new songs for young choirs give a refreshing new rendition of the traditional Biblical story. The songs can be sung alone or performed in a cycle as a cantata. Narration is included and a mime or play could beadded. Duration: 30 mins. Script available in student book. You will require a license to perform this work at your school/youth theatre; please click here for more information and our application form.Professionally recorded demonstration and backing tracks are available to purchase and download here .

Dragons! is a dramatic and comical musical for Key Stages 2 and 3 by poet Nick Toczek and acclaimed composer Malcolm Singer.Fergus is different from all the other kids - he is turning into a Dragon! He and hisimaginary friends are taken through their paces at the School For Dragons where they are taught to speak Dragonese and how to become hard as nails! Soon he discovers that he's not the only person he knows who is a dragon andthat in fact these firey fiends are everywhere!Dragons contains nine original varied and challenging songs and includes optional solos and instrumentals. The play has a super rhyming story and the songs are alsosuitable as a song-cycle for young choirs.The matching CD contains a complete performance of all the songs plus imaginative backing tracks to sing along to.Pupil's Book: Catalogue number GA11638.Script available in student book.