PARTITIONS GRATUITES : QUATUOR à CORDES
- Listening

(Practice Tests for the London AS and A2 Music Listening Papers based on The Essential Hyperion 2). Composed by David Bowman and Paul Terry. Schott. 96 pages. Schott Music #ED12730. Published by Schott Music

By Dr. Leon Burton, Dr. Charles Hoffer and Dr. William Hughes, with contributing editor June Hinckley. Music Appreciation. Adventures in Music Listening. Level: Grades K-2. Book. 44 pages. Published by Alfred Publishing.

(Hands-On Activities for Exploring the Classics). Composed by David Bretzius. Book; CD; Classroom/Pre-School; General Music and Classroom Publications; Other Classroom. Active Listening Lessons. Christmas; Winter. 48 pages. Published by Alfred Music

Grade 2

SKU: TV.771

Book & audio CD. Published by Themes & Variations (TV.771).

ISBN 9781894096621.

Each kit comes with a CD recording of all the selections, featuring recordings from the CBC radio library. The CD's include artists like Glen Gould, The Canadian Brass, The Toronto Children's Chorus and Tafelmusik. Classroom activities to develop your students listening skills include many unique and innovative ideas and activities.
Have your students become involved in the listening by playing rhythm instruments along with the music. Rhythm instrument playalongs are given for many selections as full scores and as simple flashcard playalongs. Cup games teach students about form and provide excellent practice keeping a beat. Scripts for daily intercom listening are featured - make music listening a part of your school day. Reproducible pages include biographies and worksheets on major composers, instrument families, and a listening log. Movement activities use scarves, balloons, flashlights, paper plates and ribbons. Listening Maps are included for many selections.
Try a new way to develop silent listening skills! STILL stands for Silent Time for Individual Listening Logs. Your students develop tremendous listening skills while listening to mystery pieces. Internet references are included so you and your students can easily locate additional resources and information. This is a unique and valuable resource!

SKU: GI.G-10177

Composed by Jim Childers. Music Education. 168 pages. GIA Publications #10177. Published by GIA Publications (GI.G-10177).

ISBN 9781622775224.

List ening Excerpts to Develop Band Musicianship is a resource that can sit near your workstation for ease and speed. I feel listening has been a great benefit to my students. I have spent a lot of time attempting to be more efficient, and I want to share the fruits of my labor with others. Incorporate listening excerpts into your teaching, and you and your students will benefit greatly. —Jim Childers Providing great listening models for band students can be an incredibly efficient and effective way to convey musical concepts—provided directors have a library of well-organized recordings that catalog everything from expressive styles (“Heroic”) to technical issues (“Double-Tonguingâ €). With this essential book, Jim Childers does the hard work of classifying the top wind band recordings to provide efficient excerpts for just the right concept. Imagine teaching students to do a lifting release. If they heard members of “The President’s Own” in one of their amazing recordings, students can be enlightened and inspired. With added coaching from the director, students will have a shortened trip to improved performance. In this resource, Childers collects hundreds of quality listening excerpts into tables and categorizes them both by instrumentation and by characteristics such as expressive elements, articulations, tempo, and more. This book helps directors be efficient in using small, but effective, listening to develop students’ musicianship—and is particularly helpful in a distance learning environment. When considering how much time directors spend in rehearsals trying to describe and redefine the musical effects they desire, words and their connotative meanings often fall short and fail to produce what a director hopes to hear. But providing students the opportunity to listen to great bands playing those desired elements from within great pieces of music can, and will, improve musicianship and inspire students! Jim Childers is Director of Bands at Marion (IL) Jr. High School, where he directs all band activities in grades six through eight. He has directed bands since 1991, at Marion Jr. High School since 2002 as well as Highland High School and Mt. Vernon Township High School. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music education at Southern Illinois University–Carbond ale, studying trombone with Dr. Robert Weiss. He has guest conducted many camps, including ISYM at the University of Illinois, and has been invited to present at several conferences, including The Midwest Clinic.

3-part mixed choir (2-part)

SKU: LO.15-1532H

Composed by Sherri Porterfield. Choral. Octavo. Heritage Music Press #15/1532H. Published by Heritage Music Press (LO.15-1532H).

UPC: 000308050202.

These introspective and thoughtful lyrics, written by high school student Michael Ross, plead with us to really listen to nature and its messages about life. The pentatonic feel of the gentle music marries itself beautifully to this text. Also available: Two-part (15/1539H).

SKU: GI.G-9545

Build Independent Creative Listeners in Choir. Composed by Anthony Bernarducci. Music Education. 140 pages. GIA Publications #9545. Published by GIA Publications (GI.G-9545).

ISBN 9781622772551.

How choir members listen directly impacts the quality of their music making. Listening Awareness is a practical book that guides choral singers—and members of any music ensemble—to become more aware of their own sound as well as the sound of their ensemble. The goal is to help musicians take ownership of the sound they create so singers and musicians learn to provide effective feedback to improve the sound of the entire ensemble. Author Anthony Bernarducci’s approach is simple: Students need to be taught to accurately hear musical concepts before they can apply them in their own music making. He provides a practical and pedagogical approach to concepts such as tone, balance, form, and texture. He also includes exercises that apply aural concepts to style and nuance of historical and contemporary literature—always recommending suggested repertoire, composers, and recordings for each style period. Other topics in Listening Awareness include the different levels of listening, the impact of seating position on sound, strategies for starting a new work, and the characteristics of harmony and melody. Finally, Listening Awareness includes reproducible worksheets to assist with many of the exercises. States Bernarducci, “Our ability to listen, evaluate, and transform will need to be constantly sharpened throughout our careers, our students’ abilities are no exception to this need.” Anthony Bernarducci is Assistant Professor of Music at Clemson University, where he conducts the Men’s Choir and mixed chamber choir Cantorei. He also teaches courses in music theory and composition.