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: HL.194945

ISBN 9781495074059. UPC: 888680642105. 8.5x11.0x0.113 inches. By Cristi Cary Miller and Kathlyn Reynolds.

Are you ready for a way to set your students up for music success? Well, let's go Orff! Using Carl Orff's approach of sing, say, dance, play, this collection will give you multiple ways to introduce your children to the world of music making. Within the pages of this resource, you will find songs that involve singing games, Orff and unpitched instrumental accompaniments, simple choreography and extension activities. In addition, there are colorful interactive slides to assist in learning and playing games. The collection features reproducible singer songsheets and step-by-step teaching suggestions for the songs, games and Orff parts. For extra value, projectable, full color song charts are included via digital access and viewed in your browser, so there is no need for special software. Just download the files onto your computer and you're ready to go! These charts include song lyrics and interactive activities for enhanced learning. Songs include: Name Game, 'Round the Circle, Pay Allegiance to America, Little Turkey in the Woods, Decorate the Tree, Make New Friends, Do Your Best, We Are Marching, and more! Suggested for grades 1-3.

SKU: PR.11441378S

UPC: 680160585939. 11 x 14 inches.

Commissione d 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.—S hulamit Ran.