Alfred's Music Playing Cards: Classical Composers are an exciting and innovative resource to help students become familiar with the great composers. These are real playing cards divided into four suits, each representing a different compositional era of music: Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, and Romantic. Each suit contains 13 composer cards with the composer's likeness, nationality, birth and death dates, brief facts about his or her musical life, and important compositions. Four jokers are included as well, each containing a brief outline of the corresponding musical style period. The cards can be used to play Crazy 8s, Gin Rummy, Matching, Go Fish - virtually any card game using a 52 card deck!

Basic Library
Join Mozart Mouse, Beethoven Bear and their music friends as they learn about music. Follow their adventures from the Play Room and the Music Room to their Piano Lessons, their Music Class at school, the Talent Show and a Trip to the City. Written to provide appropriate piano instruction for 4-, 5-, and 6-year-olds, this series is a comprehensive approach to musical learning that develops singing and listening skills simultaneously with an appreciation for a variety of musical styles. The materials in the course combine to create an exciting and imaginative atmosphere both in the lesson and at home. Book 1 gives children a carefully paced orientation to the keyboard: low and high sounds, up and down the keyboard, and an equally careful presentation of groups of two and three black keys, left and right hands, and finger numbers. White key letter names are gradually introduced with letter names in note-heads. Children generally play one repeated note or two note melodies in one hand only per piece and learn the first three notes of middle C position for each hand by the end of the book. The Starter Set includes a vinyl bag printed with the name of the course, a music activity board (magnetic and dry erase), and two stuffed animals, Beethoven Bear and Mozart Mouse. The Deluxe Starter Set includes everything in the Starter Set plus Music Lesson Book 1, Music Discovery Book 1, Music Workbook 1, Lesson and Discovery CD 1, and Flash Cards for Book 1.

Beautifully reproduced from original paintings by Karen Cannon, these tongue-in-cheek images portray a day in the life of a hard working student musician. Posters measure 18" x 24" and are printed on heavy stock. Each is protectively poly-wrapped and presented on a corrugated board, ready to place in a standard size poster frame. Shipped flat, not rolled.

Includes all 40 of the P.A.S. International Rudiments. The video features each rudiment performed in the traditional manner...open (slow) to closed (fast) to open. Performance is by Rob Carson, Three-Time World Snare Drum Champion!

This comprehensive and unique record book serves as a valuable communication tool that allows student, teacher, and parent to evaluate the quality and quantity of weekly practice for one full year. Parents can maintain a permanent record of practice time, teachers can record memorized pieces, performances, and musicianship skills learned, and students can use the music dictionary, composer listing, popular song title listing, scale fingering reference chart, major and relative minor scale exercises, chord charts, and many pages of wide-ruled manuscript paper.