World's Progress March

SKU: M7.VOGG-461

ISBN 9783802404610. English.

The harmonica is one of the most fascinating instruments for children to play. Starting with the elemental experience of its own breathing your child will easily connect to the musical sounds it is producing. Little Voggy will be your child's companion on his adventurous wanderings through the fascinating world of music. From proper playing position and playing technique to reading music, playing single notes and whole songs - everything your child needs to know is explained thoroughly and easy to understand. Due to the educational preparation of the syllabus and many songs and exercises composed especially for this book, Voggy's Harmonica Book will always be fun and easy to work with. Fast progress will have your child staying motivated throughout this book. There's an additional appendix featuring tips on practicing, caring for the harp and a complete overview of everything learned. For the diatonic harp (Bluesharp, Richter-harp) in C.

SKU: HL.14034352

ISBN 9780711991217. 9.0x12.0x0.174 inches.

Step by step instructions for ABRSM and other singing exams. This book contains everything you need to progress to Grade 2 singing level. Including over 30 songs which can be used in your Grade 2 exam, with plenty of help and theory information throughout. There are also sections on warming-up, sight singing and an introduction to singing with other people.

SKU: GI.G-7266

ISBN 9781592403196. English.

Every fall, marching bands take to the field in a uniquely American ritual. From the stands, it looks easy. You don’t see them sweat. For millions of kids, band is more than a show. It’s a rite of passage—a first foray into leadership and adult responsibility, and a chance to learn what it means to be part of a community. Nowhere is band more serious than at Concord High School in Elkhart, Indiana, where the entire town is involved with the success of its defending state champion band, the Marching Minutemen. In the place where this tradition may have originated, in the city that became the band instrument capital of the world, band is a religion. But it’s not the only religion, as director Max Jones discovers. After four decades. Jones’s single-minded devotion to musical excellence has fallen out of step with a younger generation increasingly focused on personal salvation. In what his students do not know is his final season of directing, he has assembled his most ambitious show ever, for the strongest senior class he has ever directed. Amid conflicting notions of greatness, the band marches through a season that starts in hope and promise, progresses through uncertainty and disappointment, and ends, ultimately, in redemption. American Band is an unusually intimate chronicle of life, in all its triumph, disappointment, and drama, in the kind of community in which most of America lives. It is an especially timely portrait, capturing as it does the spirit of the heartland at a time of profound change. If you have ever been— or yearned to be— part of something bigger than yourself, you will be rooting for the kids whose voices fill this book. Kirsten Laine is an award-winning journalist whose commentaries can be heard on Vermont Public Radio. She lives in New Hampshire with writer Jim Collins and their two children. “American Band has everything going for it, from tempo to heart to the grand bittersweet finale. What a gift for readers: a pitch-perfect tribute to kids and song and community.” —Madeleine Blais Pulitzer Prize winner and author of In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle.