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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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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Freddie the Frog, Eli the Elephant, Babs Baboon and Micki Macaw join trumpet-playing elephants, trombone-sliding tigers, clarinet-playing monkeys and a flock of seagulls as they scat sing, swing and perform collective improvisation in this swingin' introduction to jazz. The musical includes five original songs and dialog with 26 speaking parts, along with unique “beginner band student” adaptations. The characters soon discover how embracing their differences creates the ultimate jungle jam! The enhanced Teacher Book/Singer CD-ROM includes piano accompaniments, dialog, detailed production guide, singer parts, and jazz combo charts. The Performance/Accompaniment jazz tracks feature The N'Awlins Gumbo Kings. In addition, there are recorded instrumental solos to scat sing along with, and tracks without recorded solos for scatting student-created phrases! Songs include: Jungle Jazz, We're the Best, Jungle Jam, I'm So Sorry My Friend, Let's Celebrate. 25 minutes. Suggested for Grades 2-5.
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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 two-part exercises.
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The Kodaly Choral Method is a comprehensive series of progressive songs and sight-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 Revised English Edition by Geoffry Russell-Smith presents 55 two-part exercises.
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Of the various volumes of pieces from The Kodaly Choral Method, this book instroduces a wider freedom of key through comparatively frequent modulation, and at the same time explores polyphonic devices and styles. The standard of difficulty places it after “15 Two-Part Exercises” (48009968).
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What is a Grapevine? How do you perform the California Raisins? Or the Cabbage Patch? These questions and more will all be answered in Kids Gotta Move! This handy book/DVD pack features over 100 choreography terms, defined and demonstrated with the young performer in mind. The movements are alphabetized for ease of use, with easy-to-follow definitions, diagrams and dozens of demonstration photos for further visual reference. The DVD features John Jacobson and two student dancers demonstrating each move, and the submenus on the DVD will allow you to go directly to the move you desire without fast-forwarding through an entire videotape! You'll never have to wonder what the Crocodile Smile looks like again. With Kids Gotta Move!, all the moves you'll ever need are right here for you. So get moving with Kids Gotta Move!
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Bicinia Hungarica provides a welcome introduction to elementary two-part singing. These works are not merely exercises, but miniatures of a great composer, which may serve as an introduction to his larger works, and to many aspects of 20th century music.
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Extend the Kazoo-Boo classroom magic with ten songs that will have your kids singing, clapping, stomping, crashing and woofing! The collection offers full piano accompaniment and reproducible songsheets, as well as activities to reinforce the concepts and skills in each song. Sold separately is a Performance/Accompaniment CD for enhancing classroom activities and/or school performances. Songs include: Bangin' on My Bongos, Tang Tang, Follow Freckles, Let's Make Music, Wake Up and Play!, We Are Marching, It's a Mystery, Crash! Boom! Bang!, I'm Your Friend, Boo's Beats.
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Freddie the Frog, Eli the Elephant, Babs Baboon and Micki Macaw join trumpet-playing elephants, trombone-sliding tigers, clarinet-playing monkeys and a flock of seagulls as they scat sing, swing and perform collective improvisation in this swingin' introduction to jazz. The musical includes five original songs and dialog with 26 speaking parts, along with unique “beginner band student” adaptations. The characters soon discover how embracing their differences creates the ultimate jungle jam! The enhanced Teacher Book/Singer CD-ROM includes piano accompaniments, dialog, detailed production guide, singer parts, and jazz combo charts. The Performance/Accompaniment jazz tracks feature The N'Awlins Gumbo Kings. In addition, there are recorded instrumental solos to scat sing along with, and tracks without recorded solos for scatting student-created phrases! Songs include: Jungle Jazz, We're the Best, Jungle Jam, I'm So Sorry My Friend, Let's Celebrate. 25 minutes. Suggested for Grades 2-5.
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Freddie the Frog, Eli the Elephant, Babs Baboon and Micki Macaw join trumpet-playing elephants, trombone-sliding tigers, clarinet-playing monkeys and a flock of seagulls as they scat sing, swing and perform collective improvisation in this swingin' introduction to jazz. The musical includes five original songs and dialog with 26 speaking parts, along with unique “beginner band student” adaptations. The characters soon discover how embracing their differences creates the ultimate jungle jam! The enhanced Teacher Book/Singer CD-ROM includes piano accompaniments, dialog, detailed production guide, singer parts, and jazz combo charts. The Performance/Accompaniment jazz tracks feature The N'Awlins Gumbo Kings. In addition, there are recorded instrumental solos to scat sing along with, and tracks without recorded solos for scatting student-created phrases! Songs include: Jungle Jazz, We're the Best, Jungle Jam, I'm So Sorry My Friend, Let's Celebrate. 25 minutes. Suggested for Grades 2-5.
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Do you need to include Common Core State Standards into K-5 music, but don't know where to begin? This practical handbook is for you. Learn how to incorporate CCSS Math and ELA/Literacy into your existing music lesson plans with a few simple tweaks. Common Core charts make it easy to plan and document the codes at a glance. This book is for you if: you are asked to include Common Core in K-5 Music and you don't know where to begin, you need to understand Common Core but you don't have time to figure it out, you want a common core plan that works with your EXISTING music lessons, you want easy-to-use charts for lesson planning, AND you need an easy way to document and report your CCSS implementation!
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The Folk song arrangements in this book are meant to provide the very first experiences that young children have with Orff instruments. the arrangements are organised progressively, each new note being introduced separately.
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Original songs, poetry and stories with Orff instruments for children. bound by a theme of seasonal changes and intended for classroom and music teachers. Coffey, Gagne: Breezes Are Gentrly Blowing • Koulish: Trees in the Forest • Gagne: Crispy Leaves • Coffey: The Colors of Autumn • Coffey, Koulish: Snith a Pumpkin and The Long, Creaky, Winding Stair • Coffey, Gagne, Koulish: Onion Skin • Colley: Wintery, Wintery Day • Coffey: Dancing Snowflakes • Koulish: The Breath of Winter • Koulish: Wake Up, It's Spring! • Gagne: Breezes Are Gently Blowing • Koulish: The Breath of Spring • Gagne: Dreams, Dreams • Gagne: Pirpiritsa • Koulish: Winter Spring Summer Fall • Coffey, Gagne, Koulish: Summer Dawn • Coffey, Gagne, Koulish: Beach Rap • Coffey, Gagne, Koulish: Summer Sunset • Koulish: Echoes of Time • Fall Poems • Winter Poems • Spring Poems • Summer Poems • Closure
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Extend the Kazoo-Boo classroom magic with ten songs that will have your kids singing, clapping, stomping, crashing and woofing! The collection offers full piano accompaniment and reproducible songsheets, as well as activities to reinforce the concepts and skills in each song. Sold separately is a Songs 1 Songbook with piano/vocal arrangements for enhancing classroom activities and/or school performances. Songs include: Bangin' on My Bongos, Tang Tang, Follow Freckles, Let's Make Music, Wake Up and Play!, We Are Marching, It's a Mystery, Crash! Boom! Bang!, I'm Your Friend, Boo's Beats.
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