SKU: GI.G-10006

Minor Skills. Composed by Keitha Lucas Hamann and Michele Henry. Music Education. Book. 74 pages. GIA Publications #10006. Published by GIA Publications (GI.G-10006).

Help your students Level Up! their sight-reading skills using their minds and ears, as well their voices! Level Up! is a sequential, interactive, and comprehensive resource built from the authors’ decades of research and experience teaching students of all levels and ages. Using the concept of target skills (isolated pitch and rhythm patterns), Level Up! guides students to carefully understand and analyze every new skill by difficulty. Authors Michele L. Henry and Keitha Lucas Hamann then reinforce each skill by asking students to sight-read specially sequenced practice melodies. Each of the five volumes—Foundational, Emerging, Minor, Developing, and Advanced—is designed as an interactive workbook for students to mark up, and is available in both treble clef and bass clef editions. The companion Teacher Manuals include clear instructions for how to best use the Level Up! system, outline the approach and sequencing, and provide assessments. Level Up! supports the artistic literacy goals of the National Coalition for Core Arts Standards (NCCAS) and many state music education standards. The companion website, giamusic.com/levelup, provides even more reinforcement. The goal of Level Up! is simple: to help students become independent and confident musicians, with benefits to last a lifetime! Michele L. Henry, Ph.D. is Professor of Choral Music Education at Baylor University, Waco, Texas. Keitha Lucas Hamann, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Music Education at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.   Level Up! is the most sequential approach to the teaching of sight-reading that I’ve ever seen! Designed for use with singers at the middle school through high school levels, the methodology aligns with National Standards, UIL, and TEKS, and is range related for developing voices. Within each lesson, specific skills are targeted and the interactive approach further encourages the mastery of skills. Individual assessment is provided both for long-term and short-term goals, thus creating a complete and accessible methodology which can be used in any choral or general music classroom. —Lynne Gackle, Director of Choral Activities, Baylor University This book fills a unique niche in the field. I love that it takes the needs of developing/changing voice singers into account and that students can write in the books like a workbook as they are learning the tools for sight singing. Teachers will definitely appreciate the opportunities for assessment built into the series. —Jessica Nápoles, Associate Professor of Choral Music Education, University of North Texas As a teacher, I really do love this resource. It’s broken down in a way that makes it very easy to incorporate into my lessons, and the fact that it’s sequential and very clear about the concepts introduced at each level is extremely helpful. I can see my students (beginners especially) getting better and more confident with their sight-reading. I look forward to using this resource as our primary sight-reading resource! —Courtney Neva, Choir Director, Dripping Springs High School.

Composed by Jean Sibelius (1865-1957). Arranged by Otto Taubmann. Edition Breitkopf. Early 20th Century. Solo part, piano reduction. Breitkopf and Haertel #EB-3122. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.EB-3122).

Piano (Piano)

SKU: HL.48182576

Composed by Gerd Kaemper. Leduc. Classical. CD. Alphonse Leduc #AL23926. Published by Alphonse Leduc (HL.48182576).

Freelance pianist, Gerd Kaemper has compiled many significant books for progression in Piano technique. Complete Method of the Piano is no exception to the composer's successful technical study aids. Published in 1967, Kaemper's Complete Method of the Piano introduces beginners to the world of the Piano. Beginning with understanding the treble and bass clefs, note values and note names, a selection of suitable, short pieces are addressed to ensure progression. As the pupil advances through the books, they will address rests, accidentals, further note values and articulation, amongst other aspects, accompanied by helpful, short exercises. For all aspiring, beginner pianists, Kaemper's Complete Method of the Piano ensures adequate technical understanding from the start..

Double bass (2(picc).2.cor ang.2.2 - 4.2.3.1 - timp.perc - str)

SKU: BR.OB-5198-27

From the New World - Urtext. Composed by Antonin Dvorak. Edited by Christian R. Riedel. Orchestra; stapled. Orchester-Bibliothek (Orchestral Library).

revised new edition of score and orchestral parts

Symphony; Romantic. Part. 12 pages. Duration 45'. Breitkopf and Haertel #OB 5198-27. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.OB-5198-27).

ISBN 9790004330517. 10 x 12.5 inches.

Dvorak's masterpiece is now even more practicalDvorak's Symphony From the New World, considered his opus summum by many, is one the most widely performed of all symphonies. The edition already published in 1990 by Breitkopf & Hartel has been established internationally as an authoritative edition not least because it is based on parts first used in the 1893 New York premiere. This very revealing source had until then been considered lost.The new edition now published in large orchestral format (25.0 x 32.0 cm), still has in store, however, quite a few further additions and improvements: The layout of the string parts is now more practically oriented; the well-known (ever repeated) problems of page turns in the earlier editions could also finally be solved. The trombone parts I/II notated to date in the alto clef (as done by Dvorak) are reproduced according to present-day orchestral practice in the tenor clef.

Revised new edition of score and orchestral parts.