Music For The Holidays

Musician?s Union Practice Diary is a must-have practice diary for all instrumental and singing teachers based on Paul Harris? renowned Simultaneous Learning strategy (which develops musical insight by making connections between all aspects of musicianship). Diary pages for a teaching year feature Focus for the week What we did in the lesson and Practice connections boxes. In addition there are inspiring Practice Starter pages and Holiday projects ? plenty of fun and inspiring ideas to get students practicing the Paul Harris way! The Musicians? Union is the representative organisation for musicians working in every area of the progression. Thisdiary is one of a series of resources provided to assist members in their work.

Step Up To GCSE Music is the authoritative resource for getting you up to speed with the core content of the new GCSEs which will be taught in schools in England and Wales from 2016.   Whatever instrument you play whatever your background this clear and accessible guide:   Provides 14 sessions that can be tackled one-per-day for a fortnight's 'crash-course' in the holidays or spaced out over a school term Gets you up to speed with stave notation and the musical language requirements for all GCSE boards Contains regular tests to make sure that you fully understand eachtopic Helps you to achieve the highest grades

Active Listening Strategies for the Music Classroom-Make music listening fun and active with creative visuals and activities for Tchiakovsky's holiday standard The Nutcracker Suite. Created for the music classroom the Activity Book/CD features a variety of reproduciblelistening maps and activities helpful teaching suggestions and a full-length version of this masterwork performed by the Slovak Symphony Orchestra. Student editions with full color listening maps provide extra visual effect asstudents follow the familiar music of the Suite's eight movements: Overture Chinese Dance Russian Dance Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy Waltz of the Flowers March Dance of the Reed Flute and Arabian Dance. Thevalue-packed Classroom Kit includes the Book/CD Pak and Student 20-Pak. Enhance music appreciation in your classroom this holiday season!

Because a fine orchestra depends on fine players, Solo Time for Strings emphasizes individual accomplishment, progress, and achievement while preparing young students for participation in a school orchestra. The series teaches reading in conjunction with note learning, enabling students to start playing melodies as soon as possible, and is appropriate for class or individual instruction. The solos assist in a progressive technical development from 'twinkle, twinkle' in Book 1 to music by Vivaldi in Book 5. / Formation Musicale

One Singular Sensational Holiday Revue-Auditions are underway for the 400th Anniversary of North Pole Musical and everyone is in a panic! The dancing Reindeer are ?hoofin' it ? but don't know what to do with Rudolph and his 4 left hooves. The elves aretired of always getting the short end of the stick and are singin' the blues. The snowmen are ?chillin'? but worried about the funky hot lights and the toys are trying to do the entire Nutcracker Suite in 3 minutes!The annual Christmas show keeps getting bigger and bigger each year. But wait a minute! Is bigger really better? See how Santa finds a way to remind everyone of the true meaning of the season. This sensational 35-minute holidayrevue features seven original songs in a variety of musical styles choreography and helpful production guide and a script with 26 speaking parts and adaptable cast list for groups of varying sizes and teaching objectives linkedto the National Standards for each song. The expanded Performance Kit/CD provides 20 Singer books along with the Teacher Edition and a P/A CD. Available separately: Teacher Edition Singer Edition 5-Pak Preview CD (withvocals) Preview Pak (1 singer book 1 Preview CD) Performance/Accompaniment CD Performance Kit/CD (Teacher 20 singer books P/A CD). Duration: ca. 35 minutes. Suggested for grades 4-8.

Customize Your Programs With Scripts for Every Occasion-You need programs? We've got plenty! Here are twelve flexible programs designed to delight entertain and sometimes even educate your cast members and audiences. From January to December there is a program for each major holidaymarked on your school calendar. Programs A-Plenty provides all the dialog and gives suggestions for songs that could be incorporated in each program. Some of the songs may be new to you and others may already be in yourcast's repertoire. You can choose to perform one or more of the songs from the list or substitute for another song that best delivers the message you want to say. The key word is ?flexible.? We encourage you to takethe script provided and make the programs your own. Happy Holidays - every one of them! Holiday Scripts include: A Fun Festive and Fantastic Fall Festival; Grandparent's Day: It's All About You; Patriotic Program: I AmAmerica; Veterans Day; Thanksgiving Day; Winter Holidays: The Signs of Winter; Martin Luther King Jr. Day: We Are the Dream; Hip Hooray It's Valentine's Day!; Presidents' Day; Music in Our Schools; A Spring Sing!; An Earth DayCelebration. Available: Resource Book (with reproducible pages). Suggested for grades 2-5.

The Mortimer Revel-Highdays and Holidays fut commandé par le South Berks Concert Band pour célébrer son 40e anniversaire en 2016. Les répétitions de l?orchestre d?harmonie ont lieu dans le village de Mortimer qui a une longue et fascinante histoire qui remonteavant l?âge du Bronze. Ce village est connu pour le Mortimer Revel un évènement annuel qui était apparemment une occasion plutôt bruyante et parfois même violente. Highdays and Holidays cherche à reproduire l?esprit de cet évènementfestif dans une ouverture énergique qui explore une variété d?humeurs ainsi que l?atmosphère parfois chaotique du Revel.

Following the highly successful publication Strings Extraordinaire! this collection offers 25 arrangements for Christmas Chanukah and wintertime. Like its predecessor Holidays Extraordinaire! is a progressivecollection designed for students of different playing levels. All pieces are scored with an advanced and beginning part for each instrument while being progressively ordered throughout. Two selections feature a special advancedsolo obbligato part. Holidays Extraordinaire! is perfect for those festive December concerts when orchestras of varied levels perform together!

The Mortimer Revel-Highdays and Holidays fut commandé par le South Berks Concert Band pour célébrer son 40e anniversaire en 2016. Les répétitions de l?orchestre d?harmonie ont lieu dans le village de Mortimer qui a une longue et fascinante histoire qui remonteavant l?âge du Bronze. Ce village est connu pour le Mortimer Revel un évènement annuel qui était apparemment une occasion plutôt bruyante et parfois même violente. Highdays and Holidays cherche à reproduire l?esprit de cet évènementfestif dans une ouverture énergique qui explore une variété d?humeurs ainsi que l?atmosphère parfois chaotique du Revel.

Following the highly successful publication Strings Extraordinaire! this collection offers 25 arrangements for Christmas Chanukah and wintertime. Like its predecessor Holidays Extraordinaire! is a progressivecollection designed for students of different playing levels. All pieces are scored with an advanced and beginning part for each instrument while being progressively ordered throughout. Two selections feature a special advancedsolo obbligato part. Holidays Extraordinaire! is perfect for those festive December concerts when orchestras of varied levels perform together!

It's a hands-on, active-learning approach to rhythm! Eighteen familiar songs for holidays throughout the year are presented with notated rhythm patterns and kinesthetic stick routines: tap them on your knees, click them together, cross with a neighbor, and more! The simple rhythms can be learned by rote or read off the reproducible student pages. Plus, concise background information makes it easy to lead a discussion about featured holidays and the history and culture of each piece. Recommended for grades one through six. / Formation Musicale

Recognize each of the winter celebrations in one piece of music. Kwanzaa Hanukkah and Christmas are all represented in this very easy beginning band arrangement. If your group is ready to graduate from unison method book lines they are ready for this arrangement. Beginning band director/composer Mike Hannickel has made sure that this piece will be accessible to any first year group.If you used this composer’s FIRST CHRISTMAS SUITE with your groups in the past you are sure to like this one too.Happy Holidays!

Par CURNOW JAMES. La musique de Noël a traversé les siècles avec brillance. Parmi les plus célèbres noëls anglais datés du XIXe siècle, on citera Joy to the World. Cette mélodie est encore appréciée aujourd’hui. Festive Fanfare for the Holidays développe la mélodie originale sous diverses variations qui cheminent vers un finale éclatant. / Niveau : 4 / Répertoire / Concert Band ou Harmonie

Par CURNOW JAMES. La musique de Noël a traversé les siècles avec brillance. Parmi les plus célèbres noëls anglais datés du XIXe siècle, on citera Joy to the World. Cette mélodie est encore appréciée aujourd’hui. Festive Fanfare for the Holidays développe la mélodie originale sous diverses variations qui cheminent vers un finale éclatant. / Niveau : 4 / Musique légère originale / Répertoire / Concert Band