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GIA Publications

This music education resource brings together the versatility, playability, and tonality of Malmark Choirchimes with Orff-Schulwerk pedagogy. This powerful combination will prove instrumental to any music educator looking for a fresh approach to engage their students. Lessons have been created with an emphasis on developing overall music literacy through Orff-Schulwerk's full-body approach and child-centered way of learning.

Ring, Dance, Play

Reproducible Book

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F-flat Books

Get ready to energize your classroom with this original song – it's got a catchy hook, a full Orff arrangement, and viral buzz! Ideal for elementary music teachers looking to spark joy and creativity, this upbeat anthem celebrates the sounds all around us and gets students singing, playing, and moving in no time. Whether your students are layering xylophone patterns, adding body percussion, or creating their own rhythms with classroom objects, this song opens the door to endless exploration. Available in print and digital formats, it includes a teaching guide with guiding questions, connection to National Core Arts Standards, a lyric sheet, and a music activity/game; a ukulele chord chart; a full-score Orff arrangement; and parts for voice, soprano glockenspiel, soprano xylophone, alto xylophone, soprano/alto metallophone, shakers, tambourine, bongo, clave, drum, bass xylophone, bass metallophone, and body percussion.

Music Is Everywhere

Classroom Kit

Nerdy Music Mama

Looking for a fun way to liven up an open house, back-to-school night, or parent-teacher conferences? Try an instrument "petting zoo"! It's a great way to promote your music program and have students and parents work together playing classroom instruments! This set is also perfect for music centers, substitute plans, or even for use with a short rhythm composition activity. A great value, this digital zip file includes PDFs and is reproducible for single-classroom use only. PDFs include five exhibit posters for different instrument groups (wood, metal, scrapers and shakers, drums and tambourines, and pitched instruments); two lesson plans (one for grades K-1 and one for grades 2-5); instructions for an open house, back-to-school night, or parent-teacher conferences; three student worksheets; Welcome, Coming Soon, and direction posters; and an instrument checklist for parents and students. A fun way to get students and parents involved with music-making in your classroom!

Instrument Petting Zoo Music Centers

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Instrument Family

Mike Byrd Music

This fun and diverse collection of 15 Orff arrangements with unison vocal lines provides songs for every season. Some of the arrangements also include a piano accompaniment, and most include other rhythmic instruments. Each song includes a page of teaching suggestions and ideas. Suitable for grades K-6.

Songs for Every Season

Orff Book

Themes & Variations

The purpose of this collection is to provide the classroom music teacher with a collection of I, I-V, and I-IV-V Orff arrangements of familiar folksongs and singing games as well as some original game songs. These arrangements are of songs used in Grades 5-6 of the "Musicplay" music program.

The Orff Source

Book 3

Whether you are an Orff teacher looking to augment your teaching with quality extensions or you are a First Steps in Music teacher wishing to connect to the best of Orff, this book is written for you! Written by a team of five master elementary general music teachers - Joani Brandon, Betsy Green, Rachel Grimsby, Cragi Knapp, and Chris Tranberg - this comprehensive book is full of strategies and activities that link the Orff Schulwerk approach and the successful First Steps in Music methodology to help students to sing, say, dance, and play as a means of becoming tuneful, beatful, and artful. Materials include classroom-ready activities relating to each of the eight parts of the First Steps in Music approach: pitch exploration and vocal warm-up, fragment singing, simple songs, arioso, song tales, movement exploration and warm-up, movement for form and expression, and movement with beat motions. This book also includes a set of twelve complete lesson plans, supplemental repertoire, and a significantly expanded section on arioso.

First Steps in Music: with Orff Schulwerk

Book

BoomPak, LLC

A super-fun and flexible sheet music collection with five simple Orff arrangements you and your students will love - color-coded to combine Boomwhackers too. Included are a teacher's score and individual instrument parts that are big and clear for easy reading. Perfect for extending lessons and for creating versatile lessons around them. Students will have a blast improvising over the provided bourdon using Boomwhackers. It's a cost-saving reproducible collection! Features Canoe Song; Chicken on the Fence Post; Deedle, Deedle, Dumpling; It's Raining and Swing Low, Sweet Chariot. You also may substitute or add soprano xylophones.

Simple Series Orff 5-Pak

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Pitch Publications

These are the accompaniment tracks for all the character songs found in the Pitch Hill solfege teaching method. This pack includes MP3s of songs, both instrumental and vocal in C, D, E, and F as well as PNG picture files of the music for each key.

Pitch Hill Solfege Method Accompaniment Audio MP3's

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Alfred Music Publishing

This collection of seven detailed lesson plans includes a variety of hands-on activities for exploring Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker Suite. Students will learn and practice their parts through rhythmic chanting and body percussion before transferring to classroom instruments. The step-by-step instructions build to a culminating Orff performance for each movement. Student scores are included on the enhanced CD for printing and projecting.

Active Listening Lessons: The Nutcracker Suite

Book & Enhanced CD-ROM

This file contains Pitch Hill solfege method paper doll puppet manipulatives. Use as note identifiers or as a manipulative to have students practice singing. This makes a great early finisher activity.

Pitch Hill Solfege Method: Paper Doll Puppet Manipulatives

Reproducible

Heritage Music Press

Instruments are so important in a quality music education, but some struggle with using them effectively, especially if you don't have all the instruments you would like to have. Here's the answer! This book offers 30 opportunities to practice ensemble skills with whatever instruments you have - whether a plethora of fantastic instruments or simply body percussion. Develop your students' skills while they experience a variety of styles, key signatures, and rhythmic figures that will stay with them in their musical journey. Use with barred percussion, buckets, Boomwhackers, conventional classroom percussion instruments, found sounds, and body percussion. Downloadable recordings included.

Flex!

Book & Online Audio Access

Editors Choice Year

Play along with your favorite pop tunes in this fun and engaging collection! All you need to get started is one or more sets of eight-note diatonic Boomwhackers, or you can choose to add barred instruments to involve even more students. This kickin' collection features hit songs from a range of pop artists, including Aretha Franklin, Katy Perry, Journey, and more. Teaching suggestions, warm-up exercises, and full scores are provided in the book. Performance recordings, accompaniment tracks, reproducible song sheets, and reproducible student parts (both color-coded and in black and white) are also included as a digital download. Warning: Once your students play one song, they'll beg to play them all!

Boom! Whack! Pop!

Book, Online Audio & PDF

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Advanced research continually points to the importance of music in the lives of young children. Presented by a national leader in early childhood music education, this creatively illustrated book contains everything you need to lead a music class for preschool and early elementary students. Includes lesson plans for a three-year curriculum, echo songs, call-and-response songs, simple songs, song tales, action songs, circle games, beat motion activities and more. The repertoire is based solely on folk and traditional songs and rhymes due to their natural melodic expressiveness and flow of language, and for their texts filled with wonder. The curriculum coordinates with the following CDs that contain all the rhymes and music included in the book: Had a Little Rooster #10004773; There's a Hole in the Bucket #10004770; Old Joe Clark #10004775, and Keeping the Beat #3280872.

First Steps in Music

Curriculum

It's a party on the playground, and you're all invited! After a long day of professional development, a group of music teachers makes their way to the playground and begins exploring all of the different sounds. After a few minutes, they find a groove they like and record their very first ditty. This resource gives music teachers ideas on how to incorporate this song into their curriculum to build community, make music, and have fun. Available in digital and print formats, this kit includes a teaching guide with lesson plans, lyrics, and activities, a lead sheet of the song, and a full score and parts of an Orff arrangement. The digital version also includes demonstration and MP3 recordings, with clickable links to recordings. A YouTube video of the song and rhythm stick routine is available no matter which format you choose. Great fun and a great value – you and your students are going to love this one!

Party on the Playground

Hal Leonard Corporation

Through rhyme, rhythm and song, meet Betsy Ross, Paul Revere, Benjamin Franklin, and experience the Alamo, the Lewis and Clark Expedition, the Oregon Trail and more. In addition you will discover the unique character of each of the 50 states through a variety of popular folk melodies, games, rounds and newly-composed pieces. Orff instrumental accompaniments, dances, games and movement activities add to the enjoyment and understanding of the plethora of folk songs included in this masterful resource. Over 100 songs including: Alabama Gal; Aloha Oe; Colorado Trail; Goin' to Boston; My Home's in Montana; Old Brass Wagon; On Top of Old Smoky; Simple Gifts; Swanee River and more.

Songs and Rhythms of a Nation

Completely redesigned and enhanced, this is the premier series for teaching solfege. With the Conversational Solfege approach, music literacy starts with great literature and an "ear-before-eye" philosophy that correlates with the National Standards. Great songs are broken down into their component parts and then reassembled so that students can bring greater musical understanding to everything they do. The teacher's and students' components have been completely redesigned to make using this program even more engaging. Also new to this edition is an extensive assessment section, making it easy to track the progress of every student. Varied song material from America's diverse history assures the teacher an excellent selection of music at all levels. This 12-step teaching method carefully brings students from readiness to creating music through inner hearing to transferring their musical thoughts into notation - in other words, composing music! The new Enhanced Package includes all materials from the Conversational Solfege line of products (except for Level 3 books and CD) plus: Word Wall (second edition); The Book of Canons; The Book of Song Dances; The Book of Song Tales for Upper Grades and The Book of Playground Songs and Rhymes.

Conversational Solfege

Teacher's Edition Level 1

World Music Press

Mojo means magic, and these twelve original pieces inspired by the marimba music of the Shona people of Zimbabwe create a truly magical effect! From the preliminary exercises to the last beat of the "Musasa," these pieces are graduated in difficulty, and the scores are reproducible so you can involve as many students as you like for a Zimbabwean-style extravaganza!

Marimba Mojo!

Reproducible Book & CD

Pop-inspired, full of possibilities, and fun to play, these five original grooves for Orff ensemble serve as a starting place to foster creativity with students. Each piece can be performed as is or adapted for your specific purposes, allowing space for improvisation, original lyrics, rearrangement, and more. The musical ideas are derived from pop music, with each melody beginning in a simple rhythmic form and iterating to a fully realized melodic idea. These iterations illuminate motivic development and provide a step-by-step approach to advanced concepts such as ties and syncopations. Students are prompted with directions and colors to gradually add complexity. Each arrangement includes a full score and individual parts for voice, soprano glockenspiel, alto glockenspiel, soprano xylophone, alto xylophone, bass xylophone, contrabass bar, shaker, bongos, and congas. The digital version includes the full score and parts as a PDF as well as MP3 MIDI recordings and a link to a YouTube score video for each piece. Get your students moving and grooving with these original pieces!

5 Pop Grooves for Orff Ensemble

A fun and
  diverse collection of 15 winter and Christmas Orff arrangements with unison
  vocal lines. Some of the arrangements also include a piano accompaniment, and
  most include other rhythmic instruments. Each song includes a page of
  teaching suggestions and ideas.

Snow Songs to Celebrate the Season

Orff Instrumental Parts

This exciting collection of mallet percussion activities by master teacher Artie Almeida will energize your classroom. Mallet Madness utilizes songs, poems, music-to-literature connections, and reproducible flashcards to promote learning the concepts of beat, rhythm, melody, harmony, form, and expressiveness. Its unique rotation system allows your students to play all of the mallet percussion instruments in your classroom as well as many of the non-pitched instruments. Suggestions for adapting the activities for use in classrooms with few or even no mallet instruments are also included. Whiteboard versions of many of the lessons are now available. Choose between Promethean or SMART software, and the rest is done for you. The whiteboard application brings the original lessons to life through the use of colorful visuals and interactive tutorials and quizzes not found in the print edition. PowerPoint slides are provided in case you don't have a whiteboard.

Mallet Madness

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