Refresh and recharge your K-8 vocal music program using this compilation of teaching tips. With contributions sent in by dynamic and talented music educators from across the country, these ideas touch on all aspects of the music curriculum. Topics include classroom management, teaching basic skills, fine-tuning your choir, and funding your programs. The enhanced two-CD set has audio components and printable PDFs with field-tested, tried-and-true tips that are designed to build your music program.

Here's a complete music appreciation course in a single 120-page package! For each of the 22 featured composers there is a composer biography, a portrait, a listing of the type of music he or she composed, relevant facts, and a time line. The CD contains a listening example of each composer, and a listening guide includes information about each listening example, plus a second-by-second "what to listen for in the music."

Elementary teachers everywhere will want to take advantage of this integrated listening program that is perfect for music classes, classes in other subject areas, libraries, and even for use at home. "Adventures In Music Listening" has been developed to aid teachers in helping their students to listen to music more effectively and to provide a more varied and rich learning experience. Not only is this program a step forward in music education, but it is also a valuable supplement to the teaching of subjects such as language arts and social science. Here are just a few of the 29 outstanding musical selections featured on the recordings: Ohihi Owo Ti Ka Huhahi? (Africa); Simple Gifts (America); Teasing (Bartok); Golliwogg's Cakewalk (Debussy); Funeral March of the Marionettes (Gounod); Bourree from Royal Fireworks Suite (Handel); The Flight of the Bumblebee (Rimsky-Korsakov) and March of the Siamese Children (Rodgers). And there are 21 more! The "Big Book" contains full color illustrations depicting each musical selection. The student workbook provides activities such as coloring, identifying sections of the musical form, and identifying families of instruments. The teacher's guide contains lesson plans for each of the 29 musical selections, including historical information, composer biographical information, a musical features sketch, cross-curricular connections, anticipated outcomes and national standards. This program was created by a panel of experts, and is certain to enhance your music curriculum!

This resource is designed for jazz enthusiasts and musicians who want to have a better understanding of the language of jazz. To successfully navigate this all-in-one jazz theory course, you should be versed in basic music theory concepts, such as those taught in Books 1 and 2 of "Alfred's Essentials of Music Theory." With these books, you will learn the essentials of jazz music through concise lessons, practice your jazz music reading and writing skills in the exercises, improve your listening and ear training skills with the CDs, and test your knowledge with the review that completes each unit. You are encouraged to play and/or sing the musical examples throughout, at first with the recording, then on your own. Welcome to an exhilarating journey into the world of jazz!

Maurice Hinson and June Montgomery, both respected authors, clinicians and teachers, have combined forces to create a valuable set of 17 units which explore the lives and music of 17 great composers. The companion recordings feature keyboard performances of the musical examples used, and the activity sheets offer your students the opportunity to learn about the composers with fun games, puzzles, quizzes, fascinating illustrations and interesting facts. Composers covered are J.S. Bach, Domenico Scarlatti, Handel, Haydn, Clementi, W. A. Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Brahms, Debussy, Joplin, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Bartok and Kabalevsky. Guaranteed to enhance your students' appreciation of serious music!

This follow-up to the popular "Meet The Great Composers" explores the lives of 17 more great composers, including Schubert, Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, Clara Schumann, Stephen Foster, Grieg, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, Stravinsky, Gershwin, Barber, and more! Each of the 17 units focuses on one composer, with important facts, a life story, an interesting essay about a related subject, fun activity sheets and a suggested listening example. Each cost-saving classroom kit includes the book, reproducible composer profile pages and activity sheets (34 in all), and a recording of piano performances of all the suggested listening examples. Perfect for general music classes, or when a substitute teacher is filling in!

This complete resource for the general music class substitute teacher is filled with activities that take little or no music background to teach! The games, worksheets and exercises are divided by classroom grade level and all of the student pages are reproducible. Now the class won't have to be doing busy work if the regular teacher is absent! Keep students experiencing music with these fun and educationally-sound lessons!

Cross the curriculum bridge with these easy-to-use, multi-faceted lessons based around music websites and written by a team of master educators including Artie Almeida and Patricia Bourne. A perfect resource for music appreciation classes, these lessons will enable your students to explore everything from African music and rare instruments like Benjamin Franklin's glass armonica to world-class orchestras and arts organizations without ever stepping out of the classroom. From ten-minute "excursions" to full-blown units, you will surely find a "WebVisit" suited to your particular needs and curricular goals. Reproducible.

Take advantage of the resources that the internet has to offer with this newest collection of WebVisits. Based on existing websites, these lessons are designed to enhance and energize your general music classroom experience. Topics include: Explorations of great operatic performances and performance halls; Lives of composers and performers, and Instruments from around the world. Included are detailed teacher ideas as well as reproducible student worksheets.