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A superb selection for any contest or concert program. Comprised of two main musical ideas, one of which is the familiar Shaker hymn 'Tis The Gift To Be Simple, this is an exceptionally interesting, mildly contemporary, quite playable and deservedly popular work. Also available is a Teaching-Learning Unit prepared by Robert Garofalo that includes interpretive analysis, teacher's lesson plan and student learning guide.

With 30 years of teaching in the public schools as well as 15 years at the university level, master teacher David Newell shares his "secrets" to classroom management. Create a positive learning environment without ever having to raise your voice! This is a great resource for both the veteran and first year music teachers.

This useful spiral-bound reference book includes extended fingering charts for all wind instruments; alternate fingerings, trill charts and key diagrams for all woodwind instruments; harmonic series and pitch tendencies for all brass instruments as well as instrument ranges for mallet percussion and rudiments for all battery percussion. Individual fingering charts for student use can be purchased separately.

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Fourth Finger on B-Flat: Effective Strategies for Teaching Piano, a softcover book with CD-ROM, presents real-world solutions and teaching approaches new and established piano teachers can readily use in their studios. This user-friendly and personable text incorporates the basics of establishing a studio and then moves on to discussions of how students musically develop and learn using ideas from educational psychology. Chapters include ideas for your first interview/audition with a student; a comprehensive overview of musical development; guidelines for teaching students with special needs, talented and ADHD; 10 easy steps to Musical Problem-Solving; teaching strategies to mesh with different learning styles; ideas to organize a systematic approach to scale and technical development; practice techniques that include student self-assessment; and creative projects for the studio. A comprehensive CD-ROM is included with all sorts of resources including a studio policy template, sample studio brochures, charts, posters, an assignment grid, exercises and much more! The softcover book is 326 pages.

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If you want your students to truly learn, understand and recall the many Italian terms of tempo, character, and spirit, give them this thorough and entertaining glossary in the form of a comic book. Author/pianist Peter Coraggio and illustrator Jon J. Murakami have collaborated to create the Art of Piano Performance Series of five comic books: Imagery in Music (5895610); Musical Style (5983557); Pedaling - "The Soul of the Piano" (5558044); The Spectrum of Expressive Touches (5558051); and last but certainly not least, Perfect Practice -or- Chunks, Clumps, Hunks, Clods - Blocks Slivers, Slices, and Globs (5558069). These comic books are nothing short of brilliant as they effectively convey the true art of piano performance in a way we can all relate. Readers will get to know Maestro Profondo (musician extraordinaire), Musabella (Profondo's lovely teaching assistant), Agitato (neophyte student), and their musical friends while becoming inspired, motivated, and educated. Recommended for piano students from ages 10 to 100 - from beginners to advanced players!

Performance-based strategies that improve musicianship and foster student-to-student as well as teacher-to-student connections that build a sense of belonging within your ensembles.

The more students understand about the music, the better they are able to perform it! This practical, 56-page resource will build understanding and confidence by providing theory activities that balance rigor, higher level thinking, and time. Music Theory in Band and Orchestra makes it possible to teach music theory through repertoire, and connect and expand experiences to promote higher level thinking. It includes, nineteen different duplicable, customizable forms for class use.

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If you want your students to truly learn, understand and recall the history of the piano and the great pianists, give them this thorough, scholarly and entertaining historical overview in the form of a comic book. It takes the reader through music and art history - from the Greeks, to the history of early keyboard instruments and players, to Bartolomeo Cristofori's invention of the fortepiano in 1700, through the life of Franz Liszt. Author/pianist Peter Coraggio and illustrator Jon J. Murakami have collaborated to create the Art of Piano Performance Series of five comic books: Imagery in Music (5895610); Musical Style (5983557); Pedaling - "The Soul of the Piano" (5558044); The Spectrum of Expressive Touches (5558051); and last but certainly not least, Perfect Practice -or- Chunks, Clumps, Hunks, Clods - Blocks Slivers, Slices, and Globs (5558069). These comic books are nothing short of brilliant as they effectively convey the true art of piano performance in a way we can all relate. Readers will get to know Maestro Profondo (musician extraordinaire), Musabella (Profondo's lovely teaching assistant), Agitato (neophyte student), and their musical friends while becoming inspired, motivated, and educated. Recommended for piano students from ages 10 to 100 - from beginners to advanced players!

Guhl's inspiring narrative is an unparalleled journey through the last 70 years of pedagogy, performance practices, and examining the exciting process of learning. Includes ideas teachers can use immediately in their teaching, as well as her reasonings and observations that led to her series, The Magic Reader.

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If you want your students to truly learn the mechanics of the piano, and understand and employ the many techniques of pedalling, give them this thorough and entertaining overview of pedalling in the form of a comic book. Author/pianist Peter Coraggio and illustrator Jon J. Murakami have collaborated to create the Art of Piano Performance Series of five comic books: Imagery in Music (5895610); Musical Style (5983557); Pedaling - "The Soul of the Piano" (5558044); The Spectrum of Expressive Touches (5558051); and last but certainly not least, Perfect Practice -or- Chunks, Clumps, Hunks, Clods - Blocks Slivers, Slices, and Globs (5558069). These comic books are nothing short of brilliant as they effectively convey the true art of piano performance in a way we can all relate. Readers will get to know Maestro Profondo (musician extraordinaire), Musabella (Profondo's lovely teaching assistant), Agitato (neophyte student), and their musical friends while becoming inspired, motivated, and educated. Recommended for piano students from ages 10 to 100 - from beginners to advanced players!