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.
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This exciting resource by Sharon Burch, creator of Freddie the Frog, is a step-by-step guide to read, analyze, compose, write and assess with craft sticks all while incorporating the National Common CORE Mathematics Standards in the process! Includes online access to sixteen singing games, craft stick lessons, and “solve the mystery” interactive charts that make teaching music and math easy and fun. Each step leads to something fun for the kids to sing, write, or play, all keeping the students engaged to the last second of class.
Who knew there was so much fun AFTER dessert? Grades K-2. Songs include: Apple Tree; Bell Horses; Hill, Hill; Lemonade; No Robbers Out Today; Pumpkin Fat; The Mill; We Are Playing in the Forest; Engine, Engine; Hot Cross Buns; Lucy Locket; Pease Porridge Hot; Snail, Snail; Choo Choo Train.
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Contents: O Music, Sweet Music (Mason) • Exercising Your Voice • Tone Production Exercises • Vocalizations • Jubilate Deo (Praetorius) • The Salley Gardens (Britten) • Simple Gifts (arr. Copland) • She's Like the Swallow • A Spring Morning • Good Night (Kabalevsky)
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The Scat Singing for Kids teacher's guide contains a detailed step-by-step process that creates a 'safe zone' and leads the most insecure student to uninhibited scattin' fun! Scat singing is the easiest way for kids to begin developing their jazz chops, but singing nonsense syllables as a soloist can be unnerving. Freddie the Frog® and the Flying Jazz Kitten storybook introduces kids to scat singing. The teacher's guide extends the learning with group scatting, flashcard instruction, scatting partners and classroom rhythm instruments.
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Translated by Margaret Murray.
In 1924 Dorothee Günther and Carl Orff founded a School for Gymnastics and Dance whose influence unfolded between the Weimar Republic and the end of the Second World War. In this book seven authors present the entire dance, musical, pedagogical and historical aspects of this school in which Carl Orff's idea of Elementary Music took shape. A comprehensive documentation section comprises articles by Günther and Orff from the 1920s and 30s, reviews of artistic and educational work as well as largely unpublished photographs. Out of this there emerges a multifaceted and lively picture of a great approach to the art of dancing and an improvisatory music practice, arising out of the kindred collaboration between the dancer Maja Lex and the musician Gunild Keetman. Michael Kugler, born 1942 in Munich, studied Musicology and School Music. After five years teaching in a high school he moved in 1973 to a lectureship at Munich University and since 1994 has taught Music Pedagogy privately. He has published articles on Afro-American music, rhythmics, Orff-Schulwerk, and elemental music and movement education.
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Part of the Kodaly Choral Method, this collection of 55 nursery songs is not meant to be sight-singing material. These songs are composed to provide very simple note and rhythm patterns for the very young singers. The five-note (pentatonic scale) is employed so as to avoid the use of semi-tones (half steps) at an age when certainty of intonation is only just developing. The first songs are in fact written on two notes (tones) only, later progressing to three, four and five.
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Composer/Lyricist: John Henry Kreitler & Patsy Meyer
The K-Street Kids turn a boring day into an exploring day filled with pirates, treasures, and more. This K-3 musical play entertains while teaching students maps, geography, sea life, Irish jigs, accelerando, and the real treasure of friendship. The teacher's book features reproducible music and lyrics, easy dialogue for a flexible number of students, and simple staging and costume suggestions. Songs include: It's a Boring Day • Usin' My Noggin' • The Map Rap • What You See in the Sea • I, I, Irish Ike • I'm Your Friend • It's an Exploring Day. Includes a performance and accompaniment CD with kids' voices.
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All of the musical examples in Sound Thinking: Music for Sight-Singing and Ear Training are drawn from folk songs and art music encompassing a wide range of historical eras. The examples can be used for developing a variety of skills including sight-reading, dictation, musical memory, rhythmic reading, formal analysis, part singing, and improvisation.
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Sequenced, early childhood, music-lesson plans based on the Orff-Schulwerk approach. Each lesson plan is described in a step-by-step format and offers verba communication • what the teachers may say • to present the material and to faciliate the activity. Introduction • Stretching, Contracting – A Warm-Up • Yoo Hoo • Charley Over the Water • See How the Sky – An Introduction • Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star • Starlight, Star Bright • Sally Go 'Round the Stars • The Falling Star • Great Big Stars • A Story of the Seasons • Riding • Scarf Games • Tall Shop • The Beehive • Circles • Circles and Other Shapes • See the Train • Valentine, Valentine • Here Is Peter Rabbit • Spooks and Spirits • Apples, Apples • Fire Stations • Jelly on a Plate • Barber, Barber, Shave a Pig • The Magic Forest • To Market, to Market • Saint Francis • Look Look • Pizza, Pizza, Mighty Moe • Yangtze Boatmen's Chantey • Rain Story • Age Category Index.
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The Kodaly Choral Method is a comprehensive series of progressive songs and sigh-singing exercises designed to promote a thorough understanding of interval and tonality. By incorporative a wide range of Hungarian folk music and poetry, Kodaly has produced a stimulating addition to the repertoire of school and amateur choirs. This collection presents 22 traditional American two-part children's songs, as edited by Erzsébet Szönyi.
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The author of bestselling Icebreakers and Icebreakers 2, Valerie Lippoldt Mack reflects on her career as a music educator, dancer, and musician and shares valuable knowledge and experience with you in Putting the SHOW in CHOIR. Full of tips and suggestions for successful auditions, choreography, staging, lights, costumes, programming, rehearsal suggestions, budgeting, public relations and more, this resource is a must for every concert, jazz, or show choir director!
There is a wealth of information in this easy and fun-to-read book with humorous stories sprinkled throughout that could only happen to Valerie!
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This collection of 100 Hungarian folksongs was incorporated into the late Kodály's Choral Method to perform a number of educationally useful and yet separate functions. They are, however, performance pieces, albeit for classroom use, and should be learned in conjunction with sight-reading training using 333 Elementary Exercises.
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All of the musical examples in Sound Thinking are drawn from folk songs and art music encompassing a wide range of historical eras. The examples can be used for developing a variety of skills including sight-reading, dictation, musical memory, rhythmic reading, formal analysis, part singing, and improvisation.
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This classroom bundle contains 30 Student Editions and 1 Teacher Edition. 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.
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| List | $250.00 |