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SKU: GI.G-VHS-396
This hands-on video focuses on one of the most important educationaltools to be developed in recent years: the MIDI Sequencer. This video featuresdozens of examples of how the MIDI Sequencer can be used with children inreal teaching situations including chorus, classroom singing, listeningand rhythm activities, Orff ensembles, recorders and electronic piano lab.Like the piano or stereo, the MIDI sequencer is becoming an indispensibletool for music teachers. Why? What can you do with one? Looking for newteaching ideas? This video is for you!
SKU: HL.9971498
ISBN 9781617742866. UPC: 884088545369. 4.75x5 inches.
Hola Amigos! Experience authentic music styles of the Afro-Spanish-Caribbean by Puerto Rican-born author & bi-lingual educator, Alejandro Jimenez. Connect with educational philosophies and cultural backgrounds of the Spanish Caribbean to understand how they influenced the music of that area. Learn how song, dance, rhythmic instruments and drama all come together to help build confidence and promote personal expression. Originally developed and used in urban, multi-cultural settings here in the United States, the works featured in Picante are for all general music classes. Students form their own Latin Music ensembles and explore the highly rhythmic beat of the plena from Puerto Rico, the regueton which is popular among urban Latino youth, the fast two-step beat of the merengue from the Dominican Republic, the bomba from Puerto Rican folk music, and the son from Cuban dance music. These different styles influenced what we now call Salsa music. The kid-friendly ensembles have been written for Grades 5-9 and are presented from easy to more difficult. A variety of short, easily-learned ostinato rhythm patterns are played on Latin percussion and Orff instruments and added one at a time, followed by the Spanish and English lyrics. These voice parts are also made up of short ostinato patterns that, when layered in, create easily-sung harmonies in an instant! You can perform all or some of the voice parts, so do what best fits your situation. A helpful teaching sequence, dance steps and objectives linked to the National Standards are provided for each song, and all ensemble parts are reproducible! The piano/vocal printed score represents the form of each song as recorded on the companion CD, and is only a suggested guide to follow. Encourage your students to be creative and make up their own song form! Available separately: Teacher Edition (with reproducible pages), Performance/Accompaniment CD, Classroom Kit (Teacher and P/A CD). Suggested for grades 5-9.
SKU: GI.G-9417
ISBN 9781622772315.
This delightful collection of children's folksongs and games from Bali is perfect for elementary classrooms exploring cultural traditions from around the world. The collection includes: An introductory booklet containing: A colorful map of Bali A description of the island of Bali and its people A description of the context and historical background of the project A guide to reading titilaras nding-ndong notation (the notation system used in Bali) A pedagogical guide for creating lesson plans Biographies of the author, collaborator, composer, and illustrators Thirteen song booklets (10 for songs with games, 3 for songs without games). Each song booklet includes: A beautifully illustrated cover by Balinese artists A description of the song and how it is related to daily life in Bali A description of how to play the game The song notated in Titilaras Nding-Ndong notation The lyrics in Basa Bali (the language spoken in Bali) and a transliteration in English An arrangement of the song by famed Balinese composer, Ketut Gede Asnawa. Each arrangement is notated in Western notation and can be performed on gamelan (the instrumental ensemble most common in Bali) or on classroom Orff instruments. A build-your-own shadow puppet kit containing three puppets (Arjuna, Krishna, and the Kayon) that you can color, cut out, and assemble on your own. Access to multimedia including: High definition videos of Balinese children playing the games High definition videos of Balinese children singing the songs High definition videos of Balinese children pronouncing the lyrics Audio recordings of gamelan Photographs of Bali  Brent C. Talbot travels the globe researching how music is learned and taught in various cultural contexts. He is the coordinator of music education at Gettysburg College and the founding director of Gamelan Gita Semara. Made Taro is a master teacher, storyteller, and writer of Balinese songs, games, and culture. He has collected over 250 children’s songs and games from across Bali and has written over 30 books. Taro is the founder of Sanggar Kukuruyuk, a children’s program for storytelling, singing, and playing featured in the videos associated with this book. Ketut Gede Asnawa is a renowned composer, performer, and scholar of Balinese music. Asnawa serves on the faculty in the School of Music at the University of Illinois in Urbana and created the instrumental arrangements in this book. The Bali-Based graphic design studio neverlandART was founded in 2005 by graduates of the Indonesia Institute of Art in Denpasar. The talented Mangkoe and Ajik created the artwork found throughout this book.
SKU: PR.115402040
UPC: 680160591220. 9.5 x 13 inches. Key: G major.
Already a popular recital work for piccolo and piano, and winner of the 2009 International Piccolo Symposium biennial composition competition, Flash! is now available for solo piccolo with band accompaniment - fresh from the NFA premiere, featuring piccolo legend Walfrid Kujala. The East Coast premiere is scheduled for 11/18/10, featuring Boston Symphony piccoloist Linda Toote with the Boston University wind ensemble.By 2008, Sonatine de Giverny was being performed so frequently that I decided to write another piccolo piece as soon as an opportunity arose. Since Giverny is a study in French style, I knew the new piece must be in my own authentic American voice. That summer, Giverny was performed six times at the NFA convention as a mandatory competition piece, and I returned from the August 2008 convention all charged up to write something different for piccolo. In September, Kate Prestia-Schaub wrote to tell me about the International Piccolo Symposium's new composer competition. She proposed that if I write a new piccolo/piano piece, she would record a demo for me to submit to the competition, and she would submit applications to perform it at the 2009 IPS convention and NFA convention. What amazing timing! I set out to compose a flashy showpiece with a jazzy snap, lots of idiomatic scales and arpeggios, and a scary middle section, and by mid-October FLASH! was complete. Kate followed suit and all 3 wishes came true - FLASH! won first prize in the IPS composer competition, and she performed it both there and at NFA. In the meantime many other piccoloists have added the work to their repertoire, Cynthia Ellis wrote an article about it for Flute Talk magazine, and Walfrid Kujala commissioned a band accompaniment to premiere at NFA in 2010. More recently, Sarah Jackson has commissioned an orchestra version, premiered at the 2014 NFA convention.By 2008, Sonatine de Giverny was being performed so frequently that I decided to write another piccolo piece as soon as an opportunity arose. Since Giverny is a study in French style, I knew the new piece must be in my own authentic American voice. That summer, Giverny was performed six times at the NFA convention as a mandatory competition piece, and I returned from the August 2008 convention all charged up to write something different for piccolo.In September, Kate Prestia-Schaub wrote to tell me about the International Piccolo Symposium's new composer competition. She proposed that if I write a new piccolo/piano piece, she would record a demo for me to submit to the competition, and she would submit applications to perform it at the 2009 IPS convention and NFA convention. What amazing timing! I set out to compose a flashy showpiece with a jazzy snap, lots of idiomatic scales and arpeggios, and a scary middle section, and by mid-October FLASH! was complete.Kate followed suit and all 3 wishes came true - FLASH! won first prize in the IPS composer competition, and she performed it both there and at NFA. In the meantime many other piccoloists have added the work to their repertoire, Cynthia Ellis wrote an article about it for Flute Talk magazine, and Walfrid Kujala commissioned a band accompaniment to premiere at NFA in 2010.More recently, Sarah Jackson has commissioned an orchestra version, premiered at the 2014 NFA convention.
SKU: AP.1-ADV31300
UPC: 805095313000. English. Traditional.
Burungkaka is an Indonesian folk song which is known throughout Malaysia. It is about an old parrot which sits near the window, singing. The children make fun of it in a good-natured manner. Originally arranged in 1997 for virtuoso jazz trombonist Albert Mangelsdorff and the WDR Big Band by Bill Dobbins. Albert had recorded the piece many years earlier on a trio recording of his. Saxes double on flute, clarinet, or bass clarinet. First alto doubles on soprano. Substitute saxophone parts are provided on the reverse side of the woodwind parts. First trumpet goes to C (2 ledger lines above staff).
SKU: PR.11540204F
UPC: 680160591237. Key: G major.
SKU: PR.416413960
ISBN 9781598068160. UPC: 680160595112. 9x12 inches. Key: C major.
A favorite at family concerts from community ensembles through the Philadelphia Orchestra, Dorff's Goldilocks uses the familiar story to engage listeners young and old, while the plot and characters illustrate variations on a theme, and contrasts between low/medium/high. The recording on Bridge Records has drawn rave reviews for exciting the next generation of concertgoers.