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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Introduce students to jazz through great literature combined with learning by doing! The first of ten volumes, Jazz for Young People features early jazz in New Orleans and major artists including Buddy Bolden, Jelly Roll Morton and others. Step-by-step lessons combine content and audio/video recordings of Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center artists with interactive student learning, including classroom instruments that every music teacher already owns or can easily afford. This easy-to-present resource is designed for a teacher who may or may not be trained in America's art form - bringing jazz to the next generation. DIGITAL DOWNLOADS include: Step-by-step lesson slides to project, audio recordings of each song and Wynton Marsalis sharing background information, as well as reproducible activity/assessment worksheets. Plus! You will have FREE ACCESS to corresponding video clips for each lesson. Perfect for the general music classroom (grades 2 and up), beginning jazz ensembles and community jazz education courses.
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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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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 volume has been designed as a resource book that serves as the central focus for a group of Kodály-based materials.
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Freddie and Eli want to “hang” out in your music classroom! This full color set of eight posters, illustrated by Tiffany Harris, includes 3 large posters (18“x22”) of Treble Clef Island, a “Welcome to Music” Freddie poster, and Eli and Freddie dancing on the bed to “Music Rocks!” The jazz cats join Freddie and Eli with 5 posters (9“x12”) from Freddie the Frog® and the Flying Jazz Kitten, playing the trumpet, trombone, piano, drum set and double bass.
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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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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 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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Who knew that when you set out to be a choral conductor that your life would be completely filled with so many other activities and a plethora of roles other than just conductor? One of the main jobs of a choral director is that of a juggler, or a multitasker in the contemporary vernacular! The only way to survive and thrive in this world of music is to keep yourself organized. In The Perfect Choral Workbook, you will find the tools to organize your choral program and your career. There are over 50 forms and lists on the CD-ROM with printable files that will assist you with a range of tasks from making sure you are in the right place to possessing the necessary tools to cultivate magic in your music program. This workbook also allows you to tailor the forms to your specific program needs. A useful and informative guide to successfully juggling all your roles and tasks as a choral conductor!
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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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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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Music is the universal language. This we know is true. For us as choral musicians, however, there is an added layer of challenge and opportunity: WORDS! How many times have you heard a chorus sing and thought, “That was beautiful, but I have NO clue what they were singing about!” The Language of Music will take you from the most basic tools of delivering text to the overarching and magical communication that exists in choral singing. The book includes accompanying video clips that will guide you to a connection with your audience through your music that will touch everyone: singers and audiences alike!
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