Essential Listening Activities for the Music Classroom

SKU: GI.G-10177

ISBN 9781622775224.

Listening Excerpts to Develop Band Musicianship is a resource that can sit near your workstation for ease and speed. I feel listening has been a great benefit to my students. I have spent a lot of time attempting to be more efficient, and I want to share the fruits of my labor with others. Incorporate listening excerpts into your teaching, and you and your students will benefit greatly. —Jim Childers Providing great listening models for band students can be an incredibly efficient and effective way to convey musical concepts—provided directors have a library of well-organized recordings that catalog everything from expressive styles (“Heroic”) to technical issues (“Double-Tonguing”). With this essential book, Jim Childers does the hard work of classifying the top wind band recordings to provide efficient excerpts for just the right concept. Imagine teaching students to do a lifting release. If they heard members of “The President’s Own” in one of their amazing recordings, students can be enlightened and inspired. With added coaching from the director, students will have a shortened trip to improved performance. In this resource, Childers collects hundreds of quality listening excerpts into tables and categorizes them both by instrumentation and by characteristics such as expressive elements, articulations, tempo, and more. This book helps directors be efficient in using small, but effective, listening to develop students’ musicianship—and is particularly helpful in a distance learning environment. When considering how much time directors spend in rehearsals trying to describe and redefine the musical effects they desire, words and their connotative meanings often fall short and fail to produce what a director hopes to hear. But providing students the opportunity to listen to great bands playing those desired elements from within great pieces of music can, and will, improve musicianship and inspire students! Jim Childers is Director of Bands at Marion (IL) Jr. High School, where he directs all band activities in grades six through eight. He has directed bands since 1991, at Marion Jr. High School since 2002 as well as Highland High School and Mt. Vernon Township High School. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music education at Southern Illinois University–Carbondale, studying trombone with Dr. Robert Weiss. He has guest conducted many camps, including ISYM at the University of Illinois, and has been invited to present at several conferences, including The Midwest Clinic.

SKU: GI.G-123644

SKU: GI.G-171029

ISBN 9781574631364. UPC: 888680625788.

The second edition of the second volume of this series which provides band directors with a ready-made curriculum developed to incorporate comprehensive-musicianship training through quality band literature features Second Suite in F by Gustav Holst, Chester Overture for Band by William Schuman, and George Washington Bridge also by William Schuman. Every unit study integrates technical skills, musical knowledge and creative projects that lead student musicians to an enlightened and expressive performance. Student workbooks for each of the featured works may be downloaded. Each unit study includes: · Ear training · Rhythm studies · Essential skills information for teaching the compositional elements of music · Rehearsal strategies for addressing common ensemble issues · Creative projects · Active listening activities · Sample teaching schedule · Unit quiz (and answer sheet) · Student practice plan · Optional band projects.

SKU: GI.G-171030

SKU: GI.G-10366

This bundle includes all the essential Social Emotional Learning resources from Scott Edgar at a discounted price. All must-have materials for music educators! Scott Edgar's best-selling book Music Education and Social Emotional Learning addresses the critical role music educators play in developing the social and emotional skills of their students. It offers numerous strategies and practical examples that music teachers in all areas will find beneficial. The companion Student Workbook contains thirty engaging activities that allow students to reflect musically, socially, and emotionally, while also enhancing individual social emotional competence and musicianship. Portraits of Music Education and Social Emotional Learning showcases the inspiring stories and innovative ideas of music educators who are implementing Social Emotional Learning (SEL) instruction with intentionality in their classrooms at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. These teachers—representing all areas of music education— share their real-world challenges and triumphs with SEL instruction, along with many tips, activities, lesson plans, and suggestions for embedding SEL in a way that is musical, intentional, and meaningful. Social Emotional Learning for the Pre-Service and In-Service Music Teacher takes current and future music teachers through thirteen sequential units designed to hone important self-care and SEL skills. Each unit offers connections for both pre-service and in-service music teachers that guide them through exercises to strengthen their skills, as well as space to discover, reflect, journal, draw, and commit to growth. The ABCs of My Feelings and Music is a children's picture book that explores the powerful link between art, music, and emotion. Each page offers an emotion word in a piece of colorful artwork, one for each letter of the alphabet. And below each illustration are three classical music suggestions to listen to while observing the art.