First Adventure

Adult Piano Adventures®-Contents include: Angels We Have Heard on High; Away in a Manger; Silent Night; The First Noel; What Child is This; Pat-a-Pan; O Little Town of Bethlehem; O Come All Ye Faithful; God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen; Joy to the World; Hark! The Herald Angels Sing; The Coventry Carol; It Came Upon the Midnight Clear; O Holy Night; Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!; Jingle Bell Boogie; Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas; Frosty the Snowman; We Wish You a Merry Christmas; Winter Wonderland; The Twelve Days of Christmas; Jingle Bell Rock; Sleigh Ride; Waltz of the Flowers;Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy; Ukranian Bell Carol; The Skaters' Waltz; Hallelujah Chors; Jesu Joy of Man'sDesiring; Auld Lang Syne.

Written for ages 5 and 6 My First Piano Adventure captures the child's playful spirit with fun-filled songs rhythm games and technique activities designed to develop beginning keyboard skills.Packed with colourful characters and delightful illustrations this book offers a gentle introduction to written music including basic dynamics first note types five-finger scales and much more.

Singer's Edition 5-Pak-A corncob pipe ... a button nose ... and two eyes made out of coal! There's magic in the air as everyone's favorite ?jolly happy soul? comes to life on stage in this holiday adventure for the entire school! Join in the merriment with Mr. Frozen H20 (aka Frosty) and his friends for a make-believe sleigh ride that takes them a little too far away from home and into the backyard of Mr. Crabby. Will Frosty survive a night in jail with the heat turned up too high? This 30-minute holiday musical combines old favorites and upbeat new originals that swing! The Teacher's Manual includes full piano/vocal arrangements dialog and a helpful production guide. The Singer'sEdition contains vocal lines only and dialog and the performance/accompaniment CD features the spectacular orchestrations of Mark Brymer. Grab your hat and mittens and get ready for the magic to begin!Performance Time: 30 minutes. For Gr.1-6.

An exciting collection of fearlessly thrill-seeking themes from the most exhilarating examples of cinematic daredevilry! A fantastic collection of solo Piano arrangements of 26 memorable themes from 26 of the cinema???s mostsensational adventure classics!

Adult Piano Adventures® is a comprehensive course in reading playing and listening to music by Nancy and Randall Faber. It is a logical and effective approach to note-reading and the pace is refreshing and smooth with the language and presentation more suited to adults and late beginners. Book Two continues from the first volume with a broader repertoire and special instruction in harmony and chord accompaniments. All-In-One Lesson Book 2 is a natural progression from Book 1 with carefully sequenced instruction in note reading music theory and Piano technique. It expands on chord playing from lead sheets and offers a review of musicfundamentals a dictionary of musical terms chord chart and an outstanding selection of World-famous popular and classical melodies chosen specifically for adults. Included are musical gems such as: I Want to Hold Your Hand; Swing Low Sweet Chariot; Amazing Grace; The James Bond Theme; Pachelbelâ??s Canon and Scarborough Fair plus plenty more beloved melodies. This book includes lessons technique and theory all in one complete volume for ease of use. Develop musical understanding and reading skills further while playing enjoyable engaging music. This terrific CD edition also contains 2 packed CDs with Background accompaniments to the melodies and pieces in the book. This extra resource will help compound learning and understanding as each piece is played twice once at a slow practice tempo with the piano part included and the other at performance speed.

Written for ages 5 and 6 My First Piano Adventure captures the child's playful spirit. Fun-filled songs rhythm games and technique activities develop beginning keyboard skills. Three distinguishing features of the Lesson Book A make it unique and effective for the young 5-6 year old beginner. 1. A strong focus on technique embedded in the book through playful technique games chants and carefully-composed pieces that gently lead the child into pianistic motions. 2. An outstanding CD for the young student to listen sing tap and play along with at the piano. The orchestrated songs on the CD feature children singing the lyrics which has great appeal to the 5-6 year old beginner. The CD becomes a ready-made practice partner that guides the student and parent for all the pieces and activities in the books. 3. The fanciful art features five multi-cultural children who are also learning to play. These friends at the piano introduce basic rhythms white key names and a variety of white and black-key songs that span classical folk and blues. Young students will listen sing create and play more musically with Nancy and Randall Faber's My First Piano Adventure Lesson Book A. The Lesson Book introduces directional pre-reading elementary music theory and technique with engaging songs games and creative discovery at the keyboard. Young students will enjoy the multi-cultural ?friends at the piano? who introduce white-key names basic rhythms and a variety of songs which span classical folk and blues. Ear-training and eye-training are also part of the curriculum. The Fabers' instructional theory ?ACE? - Analysis Creativity and Expression guides the pedagogy of My First Piano Adventure.Analysis leads to understanding creativity leads to self-discovery and expression develops personal artistry. The CD for this book offers a unique listening experience with outstanding orchestrations and vocals. The recordings demonstrate a key principle of the

The Faber Piano Adventures: My First Piano Adventure Writing Book C (the companion book for Lesson Book C) provides 64 colourful fun-filled pages of writing ear-training and ?CLAP for Sightreading? activities. A focus on reading skips leads students to cross bridges connect flags meet a mouse and skip to deep-sea treasures to name just a few! Writing Book C engages children in the lives and melodies of classical composers introduced in the Lesson Book C. Take part in Haydn's Fun Facts and Game make after-dinner music with Mozart tap Beethoven's rhythms and help Tchaikovsky tell the story of a doll with a broken arm. The valuableeducational activities and vibrant illustrations of My First Piano Adventure ® are sure to delight the young beginner and teacher.

Treat your pre-reading students to an adventurous first Christmas book! Young players will be delighted with familiar carols such as O Christmas Tree as well as new favourites including ?Rudolph's Little Brother and I Love My Candy Cane! The My First Piano Adventure? friends make snowmen ride a big sleigh and enjoy candy canes together. First players will benefit from the clean presentation of pre-reading notation and festive teacher duets. The Christmas Music Calendar encourages students to count down the days until Christmas!

Book B from My First Piano Adventure moves the student into staff-reading. Music notation is explored through stepwise directional reading pattern recognition and changing hand positions all in the context of engaging songs games and creative exploration at the piano. Maintaining the child-centered philosophy of the series the ?friends at the piano? from the A Books introduce students to the music of two new composer friends Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven. Classic themes share the stage with contemporary pop and jazz sounds for young ears to absorb and enjoy. The Book B CD presents a vibrant mix of sounds from boogie to Beethoven.It serves as a listening CD which educates and as an accompaniment CD for play-along.

A fun space adventure musical full of information on technology the solar system and travel. Ideal as an end of term production at any time of the year. Duration: 45 mins. You will require a license to perform this work at yourschool/youth theatre; please click here for more information and our application form.

A fun space adventure musical full of information on technology the solar system and travel. Ideal as an end of term production at any time of th year. Duration: 45 mins. You will require a license to perform this work at yourschool/youth theatre; please click here for more information and our application form.

Explorer Level (correlates with Book 1 p. 11) Even beginning groups can play with a bold and impressive sound with this dynamic piece from Paul Lavender. A great opener for your first concert this very easy compositionguarantees success with its solid scoring and strong melodies.

As he did before in the often played and commonly appreciated ‘Lord Tullamore’ in which he poetically depicted the landscape and the cultural elements of a small Irish village in his composition ‘The Road to the West’ Carl Wittrock has sketched pioneer existence in America in a cinematic manner.In ‘The Road to the West’ the composer has tried to capture images of pioneer life during the period dating from 1850 to 1890 the days of the so-called Wild West.In those days the Wild West used to be the territory west of civilization the domain of cowboys trappers and other fortune hunters. In short ample ingredients for a captivating story.In the firstscene a lonely adventurer struggles against nature and the elements. After an exciting adventure he passes through ‘the Plains’ where majestic views alternated by colossal mountain ranges display an almost unimaginable beauty.After weeks of isolation civilization is reached again. ‘The Saloon’ is the perfect meeting place – here news is exchanged and hilarious scenes regularly take place.