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.

This elementary-level book is carefully structured to help students learn their theory in the most beneficial way - by playing writing and combining it with ear training at the same time!Students are asked to write answers to theory examples play them and then reinforce each concept with ear training. The manageable task size and format of each unit makes progress immediately noticeable which helps motivate students.Includes a CD that can be used at the lesson or at home to further reinforce students' knowledge.

67 No Prep No Prop Activities!-67 No Prep No Prop Activities! Students today need to feel they belong and to know they are an important and crucial part of the team. Long-time educator and author of IceBreakers and IceBreakers 2 Valerie Lippoldt Mack brings her brilliance in teaching recruiting and inspiration with IceBreakers 3 clearing the way for learning by instantly bringing about conversation and making personal connections. These specific IceBreaker activities encourage the building of relationships as well as accepting and understanding differences. We all recognize that teachers seem to have less time and reduced budgets for planning and creating. IceBreakers 3 introduces simple as well ashigh-tech games with a purpose and minimal preparation. Use the games at the beginning of your classes and rehearsals during rehearsal as a learning break or perhaps at the end - while reinforcing current teaching goals. The games immediately involve the ensemble by shifting the focus from the teacher to the student from Day One. Your classes and rehearsals will never be the same! Life lessons are taught on a daily basis. Let IceBreakers 3 help you change hearts and lives forever! Sections include: Meet and Greet Races and Relays Listen and Learn Celebrating Diversity Problem Solving Support and Appreciate Additional Tech Support. Suggested for grades 6-12.

new edition from 2011-Aural tests are an integral part of all ABRSM Practical graded music exams. The Specimen Aural Tests provide teachers and students with many practice examples of the tests to use as part of a music lesson or when preparing for an exam.This volume covers Grades 1 3 and includes:practice examples for each test in a range of musical stylesthe examiner rubrics (the exact words that will be used by the examiner to deliver the tests) so that candidates can be fully prepared for what will happen on the daydescriptions of the tests as they appear in the syllabusmodel answers where appropriate as a guide to the sort ofresponses that would be successful in the examThe Specimen Aural Tests volumes are each available in versions with or without CDs.

The Ramon Ricker Improvisation Series. Par RICKER RAMON. A new Play along system for learning to play jazz. Each set contains a book with transposed parts for all instruments and a play along CD with Ray playing many of the book examples on his saxophone. Volume one is for the absolute beginning jazz student who knows his/her major scales. Subjects covered in this book include: VOCABULARY: Intervals, Roman Numerals, Scales, Modes, Diatonic Seventh Chords, Major, Minor, Dominant, and Suspended Chords, Chord/Scale Relationships, The Blues Progression, Using Pentatonic Scales with Blues, Pentatonic Chord/Scale Relationships, The II-V-I Progression, Rhythm Changes, The Circle of Fifths, and The Circle of Fourths, and Steps for Playing on Changes. STYLE: Swing Eighth Notes, Use of the Metronome, Scale Practice, and Scat-Singing Solos. EAR TRAINING: Specific examples and suggestions with recorded tracks for practice. REPERTOIRE: A suggested basic repertoire. This improvisation method is more than just another play-along. It is a series of books and CDs that progress step by step, offering concrete suggestions and advise that shows you how and what to practice. Drawing on twenty-five years of teachingexperience at the Eastman School of Music, Ramon Ricker uses text, recorded demonstrations by him and his students, and practice and play-along tracks that present the material in a clear and concise manner. Most of the play-along tracks feature the rhythm section of the 1980 Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band with Harold Danko on piano, Rufus Reid on bass and the late, great Mel Lewis on drums. Since they performed and recorded together consistently over aperiod of several years, they played as a unit - a true jazz rhythm section. The recordings were brought up to meet todays higher CD standards and served as an inspiration for Ramon Ricker to write three entirely new books. In addition, new demonstration, ear training, and play-along tracks were added. / Niveau : Débutant / Jazz / Recueil / Tout Instrument

Originally published in the 1940s Paul Hindemith's remakable textbooks are still the outstanding works of their kind. In contrast to many musical textbooks written by academic musicians these were produced by a man who could play every instrument of the orchestra could compose a satisfying piece for almost every kind of ensemble and who was one of the most stimulating teachers of his day. It is therefore not surprising that nearly forty years later these books should remain essential reading for the student and the professional musician.

Originally published in the 1940s Paul Hindemith's remakable textbooks are still the outstanding works of their kind. In contrast to many musical textbooks written by academic musicians these were produced by a man who could play every instrument of the orchestra could compose a satisfying piece for almost every kind of ensemble and who was one of the most stimulating teachers of his day. It is therefore not surprising that nearly forty years later these books should remain essential reading for the student and the professional musician.

new edition from 2011-Aural tests are an integral part of all ABRSM Practical graded music exams. The Specimen Aural Tests provide teachers and students with many practice examples of the tests to use as part of a music lesson or when preparing for an exam.This volume covers Grades 4-5 and includes: practice examples for each test in a range of musical styles the examiner rubrics (the exact words that will be used by the examiner to deliver the tests) so that candidates can be fully prepared for what will happen on the day descriptions of the tests as they appear in the syllabus model answers where appropriate as aguide to the sort of responses that would be successful in the exam The Specimen Aural Tests volumes are each available in versions with or without CDs.

new edition from 2011-Aural tests are an integral part of all ABRSM Practical graded music exams. The Specimen Aural Tests provide teachers and students with many practice examples of the tests to use as part of a music lesson or when preparing for an exam.This volume covers Grades 4-5 and includes: practice examples for each test in a range of musical styles the examiner rubrics (the exact words that will be used by the examiner to deliver the tests) so that candidates can be fully prepared for what will happen on the day descriptions of the tests as they appear in the syllabus model answers where appropriate as aguide to the sort of responses that would be successful in the exam The Specimen Aural Tests volumes are each available in versions with or without CDs.

new edition from 2011-Aural tests are an integral part of all ABRSM Practical graded music exams. The Specimen Aural Tests provide teachers and students with many practice examples of the tests to use as part of a music lesson or when preparing for an exam.This volume covers Grades 6 and includes: practice examples for each test in a range of musical styles the examiner rubrics (the exact words that will be used by the examiner to deliver the tests) so that candidates can be fully prepared for what will happen on the day descriptions of the tests as they appear in the syllabus model answers where appropriate as aguide to the sort of responses that would be successful in the exam The Specimen Aural Tests volumes are each available in versions with or without CDs.

(Included with the score are the organ and the piano part (there's available a pack with 20 copies of the parts for the chorus). In case the work is to be performed by more than 20 singers it will be necessary to purchase additional copies of the chorus parts, wich are available in packs of 20 copies).On 11th March 1911, the great pianist and composer Enric Granados performed this piece as an absolute premiere at Barcelona's modernista concert hall Palau de la Música Catalana.In spite of the great success achieved on the day of the premiere by this ambitious work for piano, organ and three choirs whose words in Catalan were provided by an unknown writer, the piece was never again performed or published. Its manuscript was assumed to be lost for decades and it was even thought that it might have been burnt in a fire. Finally, the pianist and Granados specialist Douglas Riva recovered it and offered it to Boileau Editorial de Música for publication.El Cant de les estrelles was performed once again on 22nd March 2007, 96 years after its first performance, in New York's Ascension Church, with Douglas Riva himself at the piano and Dennis Keene conducting. / Choeur Et Piano

Stylistically this is a book about jazz improvisation both because that particular musical style is most comfortable and familiar to this author and because jazz has been the main arena of improvisation for nearly a century at least for profusion if not superiority in that craft. However the many and variegated techniques developed by great jazz improvisers during the last century and presented here would be of considerable even equal use to persons engaged in other styles of improvisation such as rock blue grass dixieland commercial dance or church music. Perhaps someday there will be specific improvisation methods for these styles but for the present jazz music leads all other styles in the development of methods for learning to improvise.

Sequential Sight-Reading in the Choral Classroom-Imagine - learning to sight read while having fun! Singers will grasp concepts quickly while singing real music from day one. This step-by-step method includes fun songs with lyrics dynamics and accompaniment along with prepatory exercises that are interesting authentic and flexible. This resource may be used with beginners of any age. The sequential approach focuses on the keys of C F and G major basic rhythms and simple intervals in the tonic dominant and subdominant chords. Teacher Edition comes complete with teaching suggestions and online digital access to student notation and audio files.

Active Listening Strategies for the Music Classroom-Make music listening fun and active with creative visuals and activities for Tchiakovsky's holiday standard The Nutcracker Suite. Created for the music classroom the Activity Book/CD features a variety of reproduciblelistening maps and activities helpful teaching suggestions and a full-length version of this masterwork performed by the Slovak Symphony Orchestra. Student editions with full color listening maps provide extra visual effect asstudents follow the familiar music of the Suite's eight movements: Overture Chinese Dance Russian Dance Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy Waltz of the Flowers March Dance of the Reed Flute and Arabian Dance. Thevalue-packed Classroom Kit includes the Book/CD Pak and Student 20-Pak. Enhance music appreciation in your classroom this holiday season!