How To Blitz! Sight Singing is the perfect training for your eyes and ears - a fantastic start for vocalists who are learning to read and sing at the same time. Featuring listening and singing activities athorough introduction to pitch and rhythm notation as well as other resources this book is great for all choirs conductors music teachers and vocalists. Blitz! Sight Singing alsoincludes rounds and short two-part pieces composition and improvisation exercises activities based on pitch and rhythm and all presented in a wonderfully clear and logical order. Vocalists will move through rhythm and notevalues to melodies and scales before combining the two with tunes. Written by renowned educator and author Samantha Coates the BlitzBooks series has brought fun and laughter tomusic theory technique and sight reading making them more accessible and enjoyable for all. As the most popular range of theory and sight reading books in Australia this series is finally available in the UK perfectlysupporting students learning with the main exam boards.

Most vocal teachers have already discovered Jay's extremely popular Folk Songs for Solo Singers collections. And now Alfred is excited to offer another for vocal students and their Teachers! American Folk Songs for Solo Singers includes an excellent variety of solo material for recitals concerts and contests available in two voicings.  Titles include Bright Morning Stars Down in the Valley to Pray Honey Babe How Can I Keep from Singing? My Lord What a Morning Nine Hundred Miles Old Joe Clark Pretty Little Girl Shenandoah Simple Gifts Sometimes I Feel Like aMotherless Child Sun Don't Set in the Mornin' and The Water Is Wide.

Rural Roots of Bluegrass is a songbook and history book that takes a deep at the roots of bluegrass music: ballads and fiddle tunes of Scots-Irish pioneers black spirituals plantation melodies blues murder ballads sentimental parlor songs from Tin Pan Alley North Carolina banjo styles and gospel songs. This book is richly illustrated with 107 vintage photos and includes history lyrics to 94 songs musical notation chords playing tips and historical sources for each song. Includes profiles on the Bill Clifton Bill Monroe the Blue Sky Boys Bradley Kincaid the Callahan Brothers Carolina Tar Heels the Carter Family Charlie Poole and the North CarolinaRamblers the Coon Creek Girls Earl Scruggs Eck Robertson Ernest V. 'Pop' Stoneman Fiddlin’ Arthur Smith Fiddlin’ John Carson G. B. Grayson & Henry Whitter Jimmie Rodgers Karl and Harty the Lilly Brothers MonroeBrothers the Morris Brothers Riley Puckett Samantha Bumgarner Vernon Dalhart Snuffy Jenkins and Wade & J. E. Mainer. 6' x 9' 180 pages. The perfect companion to the CD 'Rural Roots of Bluegrass.'

Eine echte Novität: Erstmals gibt es ein Liederbuch, das ausschließlich für die Klassenstufen 5 und 6 konzipiert ist. In der Repertoireauswahl, der Ansprache der Schülerinnen und Schüler und im Zuschnitt der Angebote geht dieses neuartige Liederbuch gezielt auf die Belange genau dieser Altersstufe ein. Es ist dabei weit mehr als eine reine Repertoiresammlung: Zu vielen Titeln gibt es weiterführende Optionen rund um die Themen Klassenmusizieren, Tanz, Choreografie, Stimme und vieles mehr.- 150 Titel aus allen stilistischen Bereichen, Kontinenten und Zeiten - zahlreiche Zusatzangebote zu Klassenmusizieren - Tanz und Bewegungsanleitungen, Begleitsätze und -patterns - Hintergrundwissen / Voix