What a wonderful way to address the National Standards while using your interactive whiteboard! Integrate technology into your classroom with these well-constructed interactive lessons that provide a smooth and easy way to teach improvisation and composition to elementary students (grades 1--4). Each plan starts with a song, chant, or poem - provides prompts for active listening - invites students to improvise as a group and individually - and concludes with a rubric-measured assessment. Kids will have so much fun singing and moving to the songs, playing classroom instruments, and manipulating the cartoon-style graphics on the interactive whiteboard. / Formation Musicale

Because a fine orchestra depends on fine players, Solo Time for Strings emphasizes individual accomplishment, progress, and achievement while preparing young students for participation in a school orchestra. The series teaches reading in conjunction with note learning, enabling students to start playing melodies as soon as possible, and is appropriate for class or individual instruction. The solos assist in a progressive technical development from 'twinkle, twinkle' in Book 1 to music by Vivaldi in Book 5. / Formation Musicale

Transcriptions are used to develop the ears, to derive technical exercises, and for analysis to gain understanding of the theory and techniques used to construct phrases. The solo transcriptions are included as complete examples. / Tout Instrument

Kids will love playing these selections from their favorite movies. Titles include: Believe (from The Polar Express) * Corpse Bride (Main Title) * Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead (from The Wizard of Oz) * Double Trouble (from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban) * Fame * Hogwarts' Hymn (from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) * If I Only Had a Brain (from The Wizard of Oz) * The Imperial March (Darth Vader's Theme) (from Star Wars) * The James Bond Theme * Singin' in the Rain * Superman Theme * Theme from New York, New York.

Par BERKMAN DAVID. The definitive book on how to create beautiful jazz harmonies for any melody. Starting from the most basic harmonic situations and progressing to contemporary jazz harmony, this book is a serious study of the fundamentals of jazz harmony. It will help you to uncover the best choices for chords to accompany any melody, to better understand and create the \'right\' chord progressions to standard tunes, to re-harmonize songs freely in the manner of great jazz artists like Hank Jones, Thelonious Monk, Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans, Chick Corea, Brad Mehldau, Herbie Hancock, Duke Ellington, Gil Evans, Thad Jones, Joe Pass, Jim Hall and John Scofield. Topics covered include: basic functional harmony, diatonic substitutes, secondary dominants, passing chords, diminished harmony, tritone substitutes, non-functional approaches to harmonizing melodies including quartal harmony, color chords, harmonizing basslines, pedals, slash chords, unavailable tensions and more. Includes 2 CDs of the author playing many of the written examples in the 206-page book. / Methods and Tutors / Théorie / Tout Instrument

Opening Up The Jazz Ensemble. Par COLLIER GRAHAM. This book/CD set addresses the development of improvisation in all its forms, individual and collective, textural and structural, and is designed to open up the minds of all the players in any jazz situation. The workshops are designed to help all levels of improviser. They will help the raw beginner start the process of learning to improvise, not necessarily in an exposed soloing situation, but will also help the technically fluent improviser who often needs to be taught to listen more and consider the overall picture rather than just his or her own contribution. Interaction also deals in a practical way with the connections between the present and the past, showing how the concepts of earlier styles can be adapted to our own music to create something valid for our own situation. / Méthode / Méthode / Big Band

Par HARRIS PAUL / DAVIES L.. A resource for all teachers and leaders involved in Wider Opportunities and group music-making. Written by two of the UK's leading music educationalists: Paul Harris and Leonora Davies MBE. Provides practical strategies and advice to enable class teachers, instrumental teachers and music services to deliver a holistic primary music curriculum at Key Stage 2 and into Key Stage 3. Essential and unique - based on years of experience and thorough research - takes into account recent findings from Ofsted's 'Making More Of Music' report. Supports the five key aims of the Music Manifesto. Topics covered: Teacher roles - Basic principles of teaching beginners - Differentiation - Expectations for achievement - Evaluatinf pupils' work - Transition and the relationship to the Key Stage 3 curriculum - Involving parents/carers - Creating and refining lesson plans and Trouble shooting. Also includes: 10 lesson plan exemplars for wind/brass and strings - starter repertoire and songs - enhanced CD comprising of backing tracks and PDF lesson plans. Supplementary material available online, in association with Yamaha and Pure Solo./ Recueil / Formation Musicale

Par CARTER DAVID. Inside Music presents a practical approach to developing the composing, performing and listening skills required for the GCSE examination. Clearly laid out and easy to use - each project lists the required resources, gives starting points for listening, performing and composing activities, and follow-up suggestions. A pupil self-assessment chart is included at the end. / Niveau : Assez Facile / Répertoire / Tout Instrument

Cette nouvelle série de livres pour les enseignants et les étudiants de la musique GCSE à travers les jurys d'examen comprennent un livre d'enseignants et de quatre livres sur le thème de projet, fournissant que tout nécessaires pour gérer un programme de composition avec succès. Les livres de projet (EP 7680a - d) contiennent tout que étudiant doit entreprendre le travail - cinq projets conçus pour être terminée dans un délai de moitié à terme. Chacun est énoncé comme un livre de recettes avec la description de la façon de compléter le processus et choix soigneusement limités en son sein pour exercer la créativité. / Divers