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Align music instruction with state and national standards and remain focused on active music making using this resource as your guide. This second edition includes new and updated chapters by a team with experience teaching music at all educational levels: Pre-K, K–12, higher education and beyond. Part I defines the field of curriculum and assessment in music. Part II connects various approaches to music teaching – Orff, Kodaly, Dalcroze, Suzuki, and Gordon's Music Learning Theory – in the areas of movement, rhythm, singing, creative music making, expression, literacy, and listening. Part III guides the reader through various approaches to designing curricula, including Understanding by Design, Universal Design for Learning, and the National Standards. Part IV addresses curriculum and assessment in early childhood, secondary students, popular music, adult music learning, English language learners, learners with disabilities, preparation for adjudicated events, preservice education, and in-service education. Finally, Part V looks to the future, addressing the role of technology and the challenges to musicianship-focused curriculum and assessment. Polish your curriculum and reach your assessment goals with this helpful guide.

Musicianship-Focused Curriculum and Assessment

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Retaining the beauty of the original text and tune (MARVEL), this arrangement incorporates new melodic lines and expanded choral harmonies that mix old and new. The choral texture varies by verse and includes a cappella and organ accompanied. This is especially effective for Christmas Eve.

Before the Marvel of This Night

SATB Octavo

Through my music, I can do anything! This is the inspiring message an impressive list of contributing authors is sending to the next generation of leaders with this powerful collection of stories, advice, and practical wisdom. The contributors, all accomplished music educators with decades of experience in the wind band field, answer important questions inspired by the Athena Creed: What is your guiding mantra? What advice would you give others to be the best musician/teacher they can be? How do you balance family and the profession? What was your first terrifying or memorable experience as a teacher? What was the defining moment that helped shape your career? Their responses to these and many other questions are equal parts insightful and inspirational, offering universal lessons in leadership, resilience, and the transformative power of music. A must-read for educators seeking to empower and mentor future leaders in music and beyond. Contributors: Zandra Bell-McRoy, Catharine Bushman, Paula Cride, Michele Fernandez, Linda Gammon, Edna Grace, Melissa Gustafson-Hinds, Mary Land, Rebecca Phillips, Erin Cole Steele, Lois Wiggins, Marguerite Wilder, and Paula Williams.

Through My Music

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A collection of practical tools that will modernize your program into a 21st-century booster organization, functioning as a successful small business that significantly supports the school music and arts programs. In clear, concise language, this book lays out an action plan that includes how to be articulate in sharing your vision; enlisting an army of volunteers; develop project plans; define a composite list of duties, tasks, and responsibilities; communicate; determine personal strengths and personality traits; create a business model and execute a business plan; make project notebooks; and provide support, encouragement, and praise. It goes beyond ideas and plans with online links to ready-to-use Word, Excel, and PDF files that are easy to customize and print. These reproducible tools will save you time and enable and empower you to build an amazing team of people dedicated to musical excellence!

Boosters to the Rescue

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Written by educators who navigate disabilities themselves, this resource is a wealth of firsthand experience and insight into a topic frequently discussed from outside. The book focuses on Universal Design for Learning (UDL) as a key strategy for creating accessible classrooms where all students, regardless of ability, can thrive. Throughout, the authors provide specific UDL strategies to address the broad spectrum of physical, behavioral, developmental, and sensory disabilities teachers may encounter. The book also covers such crucial topics as disability legislation, differentiated instruction, response to intervention, 504 plans, and IEPs, among others. Translating theory to practice, the portfolio activities give both pre-service and in-service teachers opportunities to apply the ideas to their own instruction. A valuable resource for educators committed to equity and accessibility!

Able Will Suffice

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A comprehensive beginning conducting text - complete with pictures, online videos, and supplemental conducting etudes - to facilitate the development of a clear and expressive conducting technique. This volume addresses three major areas for beginning conductors: gestural technique, score study, and leadership. For gestural technique, the text details a number of technical skills, including the appropriate use of the body, the roles of the right and left hand, basic conducting patterns and their derivatives, an application of Laban movement analysis, the importance of the conducting planes, and conducting with varied articulations (staccato, legato, and marcato), among others. In addressing score study, rather than advocating for one particular approach, this volume presents a number of possible score study methods for the student to explore. Finally, the text addresses how to be an effective and ethical leader from the podium. It also presents the transformational leadership model as a positive pathway for improving the conductor's effectiveness on and off the podium. Also included are music etudes to help students develop the technical skills of the conductor. A major contribution to conducting pedagogy and an extraordinary resource that distills the essence of effective conducting gesture.

Foundations of Conducting Technique

From rehearsal procedures to reading music, new singers have a lot to learn when they join a choir. This practical and compact guide written by experienced choral conductors covers all the basics. Topics include an overview of common rehearsal equipment; how to read pitches, rhythms, and expressive markings; how to mark the score; proper body alignment and breathing technique; good vowel production; what to expect in rehearsals and concerts; how to audition for choirs and solos and more. Written in an easy-to-read style with bite-sized chapters, this guide is perfect for novice singers in many settings from middle and high school choirs to community and church ensembles. Keep this resource in your singers' choral folders to jumpstart their understanding of key concepts and the choral process.

A Quick-Start Guide to Choral Singing

Grade 4 of this general music series offers groundbreaking educational power, convenience, and affordability. Incorporatingfolk repertoire from around the world, this series is based on how children learn music rather than on how music has always been taught. It focuses on helping children learn to audiate and become independent, creative musicians. This allows teachers to adapt lessons to meet the needs of each individual child, and includes comprehensive lesson plans for each song and activity. Four components for each grade are available: hardcover student book; a spiral-bound teacher resource guide with lesson plans and scope and sequence information; a complete set of recordings on CD; and a piano accompaniment book.

Jump Right In: Grade 4

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Taking a multi-cultural approach to band literature and conducting, Volume 2 picks up where  the first top-selling book left off, featuring compelling discussions of the most important issues facing bands today and in-depth analyses of 100 of the most significant works for band ever composed in grades 2-6.  Contributors include: Larry Blocher, Eugene Corporon, Ray Cramer, Tim Lautzenheiser, Edward S. Lisk, Richard Miles and Jack Stamp.  This book is an essential resource for band directors at all levels and is a major contribution to the field!

Teaching Music Through Performance in Band, Vol. 2

This CD contains favorite songs from the first season of Lomax. It is a terrific collection of folk tunes wonderfully performed by the top-tier musicians and characters who appear regularly on the program. Join the music-obsessed pooch Lomax, his feline sidekick Delta, their human companion Amy, and their friends as they crisscross America on their tune-filled steam train, the "Melody Hound Express," tracking down and performing together the wonderful songs that form the heart of our diverse musical heritage.

Lomax: the Hound of Music

The music theory and history curriculum string programs have been waiting for! Two carefully crafted books present a comprehensive and pedagogically sound sequence specifically for orchestral string students. They address common questions and offer guidance in resolving problems unique to the orchestra classroom.

Music Theory for the Successful String Musician

Paperback Book Violin

A heartfelt choice for funerals and memorial services, this poignant piece reminds us that God is always with us, even in the darkest of times. Verses are set for soloist, with choir and congregation joining for the refrains.

You Are Not Alone

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This fresh setting of Fanny Crosby's beloved hymn text Blessed Assurance offers a warm and inviting treatment of the text for both singers and listeners. The melody is straightforward, with special moments of rhythmic interest throughout. The piece will most likely require extra work from the accompanist, although the patterns are predictable and there is room for moments of improvisation.

This Is My Story

This groundbreaking mass setting explores the various ways in which musical genres within the African diaspora articulate the cultural expressions of Blackness. The various parts of the mass are unified with the understanding that Black people are not monolithic in their understanding of self or cultural expression. Each movement highlights a different musical style reflecting African culture: gospel, jazz, chant, reggaeton, Afro-Cuban music, and RB. The Sanctus (Mtakatifu) is set in Kiswahili to represent African language and culture. A truly beautiful expression of diversity.

Voice of My People

SATB Choral Score w/Piano

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

The tall tale and children's folk song The Derby Ram has delighted children and adults for generations and is stunningly brought to life in this storybook. From the series based on beloved children's song tales, this picture book is part of John M. Feierabend's lifelong goal to identify and preserve the best music of our heritage for future generations. The gorgeous illustrations by Jackie Roche invite children to use their imaginations to invent still more tall tales about the enormous Derby ram. Like the other books in the series, this includes a history of the song, the notation of the song, and a link to a free MP3 download of the song.

The Derby Ram

Storybook & MP3

Blending the Southern Harmony tune WONDROUS LOVE with the tune I BIND MY HEART, this mystical and haunting anthem is perfect for the Lenten season or Good Friday. Sing it either a cappella (optional piano reduction) or with instrumentation for flute, oboe, and cello.

Binding, Wondrous Love

This anthem combines an ancient Gaelic prayer with the English translation of the Kyrie. The Mixolydian melody hearkens back to Gaelic tradition and the many generations of praying faithful who precede us. It should be sung so that each phrase crashes like waves, one after the other, on the ears of God.

O God of Life

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This rousing and rhythmic setting of the popular Central American hymn tune ENVIADO has a dance-like feel with offbeat rhythms against the cheerful melody. A meter change to 3/8 creates a contrast before leading into the ending. The theme of the hymn is mission and social justice, making it useful year-round.

A Song Of Joy

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Rarely has a published resource contained so much invaluable information specifically for middle school band directors. This much-needed volume provides critical information on creating an effective wind band program in grades 6 through 8, from recruitment, rehearsal, and repertoire to performance and beyond. Chapters by leading middle school band directors focus on organization and administration, developing proper instrumentation, recruitment and retention, technique, literature selection, rehearsal, and a comprehensive listing of other resources.  Central to this volume is the identification and analysis of 100 core works organized by difficulty level from grade 1 to 3.5. A separate section is devoted entirely to marches that, combined with the other selections, make up core repertoire for middle school bands. As with the other books in this series, information is included about the composer, the work, historical perspectives, technical and stylistic considerations, analysis of musical elements and form and structure, suggested listening references, and cross-references to additional resources.

Teaching Music Through Performance in Middle School Band

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