SKU: HL.1437384
UPC: 196288204497.
“The Listening,” written by Grammy-nominated composer Cheryl B. Engelhardt in December 2017 for VOICES 21C under the artistic direction of André de Quadros, draws its inspiration from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s impactful 1967 speech, “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence.” This dynamic, emotion-filled piece expresses King's call to end societal silence. The rhythmic elements in the piece are derived from the poetic nature of King's speech. The inclusion of a children's choir, inspired by the Parkland school shooting and subsequent protests, symbolizes the disruption of childhood peace by violence. Notably, the virtual collaboration, featuring Donzaleigh Abernathy, Dr. King's goddaughter, emphasizes the song's contemporary relevance in addressing social issues, and was featured in PEOPLE. Premiered live at the Massachusetts Music Educators Conference in 2018 by VOICES 21C, and digitally released during Black History month in 2021, “The Listening” stands as a profound anthem for breaking silence and to foster positive change.
SKU: LO.15-1532H
UPC: 000308050202.
These introspective and thoughtful lyrics, written by high school student Michael Ross, plead with us to really listen to nature and its messages about life. The pentatonic feel of the gentle music marries itself beautifully to this text. Also available: Two-part (15/1539H).
SKU: TV.771
ISBN 9781894096621.
Each kit comes with a CD recording of all the selections, featuring recordings from the CBC radio library. The CD's include artists like Glen Gould, The Canadian Brass, The Toronto Children's Chorus and Tafelmusik. Classroom activities to develop your students listening skills include many unique and innovative ideas and activities.Have your students become involved in the listening by playing rhythm instruments along with the music. Rhythm instrument playalongs are given for many selections as full scores and as simple flashcard playalongs. Cup games teach students about form and provide excellent practice keeping a beat. Scripts for daily intercom listening are featured - make music listening a part of your school day. Reproducible pages include biographies and worksheets on major composers, instrument families, and a listening log. Movement activities use scarves, balloons, flashlights, paper plates and ribbons. Listening Maps are included for many selections.Try a new way to develop silent listening skills! STILL stands for Silent Time for Individual Listening Logs. Your students develop tremendous listening skills while listening to mystery pieces. Internet references are included so you and your students can easily locate additional resources and information. This is a unique and valuable resource!
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 (“Heroicâ€) to technical issues (“Double-Tonguingâ€). 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-9545
ISBN 9781622772551.
How choir members listen directly impacts the quality of their music making. Listening Awareness is a practical book that guides choral singers—and members of any music ensemble—to become more aware of their own sound as well as the sound of their ensemble. The goal is to help musicians take ownership of the sound they create so singers and musicians learn to provide effective feedback to improve the sound of the entire ensemble. Author Anthony Bernarducci’s approach is simple: Students need to be taught to accurately hear musical concepts before they can apply them in their own music making. He provides a practical and pedagogical approach to concepts such as tone, balance, form, and texture. He also includes exercises that apply aural concepts to style and nuance of historical and contemporary literature—always recommending suggested repertoire, composers, and recordings for each style period. Other topics in Listening Awareness include the different levels of listening, the impact of seating position on sound, strategies for starting a new work, and the characteristics of harmony and melody. Finally, Listening Awareness includes reproducible worksheets to assist with many of the exercises. States Bernarducci, “Our ability to listen, evaluate, and transform will need to be constantly sharpened throughout our careers, our students’ abilities are no exception to this need.†Anthony Bernarducci is Assistant Professor of Music at Clemson University, where he conducts the Men’s Choir and mixed chamber choir Cantorei. He also teaches courses in music theory and composition.
SKU: HL.49030432
ISBN 9781902455013. English. John Minnion.
In this sixth book of the series, the authors builld upon the lower junior stage, and use a similar modular format. Designed to extend skill acquisition in performance, improvising and composing, listening and appraising, and notating music, pupils are challenged by incresingly demanding musical materials. At the same time there is an emphasis on pupils acquiring knowledge and expertise of the deep structures of a range of music, and a greater acknowledgement of musical purpose and context. Attuned to the National Curriculum experiences, particular features of this book are: a consolidation and deepening of vocal and instrumental techniques and performance * an integrated approach to improvising and composing, combing skills in listening and appraising, knowledge and understanding * a module focusing on aural observation, representation, recording and notation of sound * an active, analytical and frequently physical approach to listening and appraising * a focus on music in its social and historical context in relation to dance.
SKU: WC.M-58005-801-0
Volume 1 contains a 60-minute CD of short excerpts from 20 compositions. Each piece is preceded by an announcement of the title of the excerpt and name of the composer. An accompanying book includes the printed music for each excerpt. Using the book, students gain a familiarity with the written form of music, just as they are exposed early to the alphabet before learning to read.
SKU: WC.M-58005-802-7
Volume 2 contains a CD of short excerpts from 23 compositions. Each piece is preceded by an announcement of the title of the excerpt and name of the composer. An accompanying book includes the printed music for each excerpt. Using the book, students gain a familiarity with the written form of music, just as they are exposed early to the alphabet before learning to read.
SKU: BT.9780713682953
ISBN 9780713682953. English.
The Listening to Music series actively engages children in listening to music so that they can perform it and compose it themselves. Each pack comprises a visually exciting book, a CD of all the recordings, and aCD-ROM of interactive whiteboard activities and printouts.The book brings together music from China, West Africa, India, South America and Europe — an eclectic mix of traditional, historical and contemporarymusic. Through the activities, children recognise and use the building blocks of music: long and short sounds, high and low, loud and quiet, fast and slow. They then perform their own versions of some of the recordings andtheycompose others — always listening perceptively to their own and others music.Teachers will find this title a useful accompaniment to Music Express Years 1 and 2 and and an enjoyable source of alternativeactivities for their primary music scheme of work.
SKU: LO.000308148671
UPC: 000308148671.
Looking for some peaceful listening for your busy holiday season? Take a listen to Jay Rouse playing his own arrangements as found in the piano book A Still and Silent Night (978-0-7877-5806-6). Jay Rouse performed each of his favorite Christmas melodies with exceptional mastery and flair for this CD.
SKU: LO.000308151503
UPC: 000308151503.
Listening CD for Devotion - Popular for his signature contemporary approach to traditional hymn tunes, Jay Rouse brings captivating keyboard music that will engage pianists and congregations across worship styles. Built around the themes of faith, hope, and love, the meditative hymn arrangements in “Devotion†will inspire worshipers to draw closer to God as they listen and pray.
SKU: BT.MUSRHG231
ISBN 9781785581601. English.
Written by experienced teachers, these tests will help to prepare you fully for the Listening and Appraising component of your GCSE course. This book contains:
SKU: BT.9780713683998
ISBN 9780713683998. English.
A series of audio and visual resources which fully engage children in listening to music. Stimulating recordings of world and historical music provide the exciting basis for a range of listening, composing and performingopportunities - enhanced by interactive whiteboard activities and displays with embedded audio.
SKU: HL.49047079
ISBN 9783795730437. UPC: 196288115106.
At the international LISTENING/HEARING symposium in autumn 2021 in Bonn, international experts discussed the elementary sense of hearing and the cultural technique of listening. Philosophy meets cognitive research, soundscape ecology meets musicology, architectural theory meets media analysis, history meets sociology. And everything on the sound art, which absorbs, processes and externalizes scientific findings and often throws back new questions. With contributions by Sam Auinger, Barry Blesser, Gernot Bohme, Jonathan Clarke, Stefan Evers, Edwin van der Heide, Anne Holzmuller Sandra Muller, Sven Oliver Muller, Bernhard Leitner, Gordon Monahan, Helga de la Motte-Haber, Jonas Obleser, Andreas Oldorp, Jens Gerrit Papenburg, Lucia Ronchetti, Hartmut Rosa, Linda-Ruth Salter, Holger Schulze, Maia Urstad and Jonathan Sterne.
SKU: WD.080689836220
UPC: 080689836220.
Take a rollicking ride to Snowflake County-a place where Christmas celebrations have become so extravagant they threaten to over shadow the simplicity of Christmas'true meaning. It seems the only one who understands the secret of Jesus' simple birth is little Suzy Hallmark-but no one is listening. It will take a series of crazy mishaps during the community's annual seasonal program before the noise stops and everyone realizes that Christmas isn't about how brightly lights and decorations shine-it's about Jesus, the light of the world. Christy Semsen has once again combined her tuneful songs and clever dialogue with a strong spiritual theme in this delightful musical that is as contemporary as today's headlines. Daniel Semsen's sparkling accompaniment tracks feature musical styles that range from pop to rock to rap and polka. (There are even country line dancing angels and tap dancing wise men!) A full-color Teacher's Resource Kit and a performance IVD are available, providing all the production help you'll need. In addition to long-sleeve and short-sleeve T-shirts, you can also purchase Fun Paks for your choir to use in performance and keep as a souvenir. Your children and congregation are going to love their visit to Snowflake County, where the secret is out: Christ is the center of Christmas!
SKU: LO.99-3973L
UPC: 000308152517.
Master arranger Mark Hayes returns to the golden era of contemporary Christian music with songs made famous by Amy Grant, Sandi Patty, Michael W. Smith, and other favorites. This listening CD, recorded by Mark himself, features the arrangments from Art of the Piano, Volume 4..
