Composing With Boomwhackers

This book is a full multimedia curriculum that contains over 60 Lesson Plans in 29 Units of Study, Student Assignments Sheets, Worksheets, Handouts, Audio and MIDI files to teach a wide array of musical topics, including: general/basic music theory, music appreciation and analysis, keyboarding, composing/arranging, even ear-training (aural theory) using technology.

The History of Music Production offers an authoritative, concise, and accessible overview of nearly 140 years of production of recorded music. It describes what role the music producer has played in shaping the creation, perception, propagation, business, and use of music, and discusses the future of the music production industry.

Grades 36 In the improvisational spirit of "Behind Bars" (30/2586H), composer and classroom teacher Mari Schay brings you a collection of pieces for Boomwhackers. Each of the ten selections in this resource will provide your students with a launching point for creating their own arrangements as they explore the world of improvisational ensemble music with their classmates. Suggested performance ideas are included with each piece, and you can download FREE audio tracks and color-coded teaching aids from the website listed in the book.

Business returns to a once prosperous restaurant when a mysterious stranger pays for his meal with a magical paper crane that comes alive and dances.

Beautifully told by Tracey Fern and warmly illustrated by Caldecott Honor winner Lauren Castillo, this is the story of one woman's quest to save the buffalo that once roamed the West. Based on the work of Mary Ann Goodnight, a pioneer credited with forming one of the first captive buffalo herds in the late 1800s and saving them from extinction.

Grades 2-6 The step-by-step, reproducible worksheets in this resource will guide your students to turn poems into songs. As your students work to compose pleasant and singable melodies, duets, and arrangements, they will also learn to count intervals, create chords, and explore expressive techniques.

Lessons including 20 fun songs and activities to use with boomwhackers musical tubes which reinforce standards set by Music Educators National Conference for K-8. Boomwhackers are colorful percussion tubes tuned to different musical notes. Hundreds of songs can be played on them helping students to develop musical and movement skills. Boomwhackers are available in different sets to form two full chromatic octaves, and Octavator tube caps are available to drop the tone of a tube by an octave creating a possible three octave range.

This method is a way of knowing the young artist with his musical instrument and his growing confidence in playing it. You can also use it for students who write cursory notes and are desperate. In this method I created had to be as simple as possible in order to get the student playing the piano immediately. This book is method of playing the piano that does not require music theory. You only need to know the color of each key on the piano. This step by step course is designed for quickly teaches the student to play songs they will know and love. Song arrangements were carefully selected to provide an easy transition from learning the basics to covering more interesting rhythms, techniques, and musical ideas. Rainbowtonic is the style for coloring the music notes. This is describes a method to raise a young child’s interest in piano learning. I will explore many popular songs with colors and symbols. Everyone can play these songs on any piano and keyboard with the color piano chart. This method for playing the piano will spark interest in learning at any age and you will enjoy playing the piano by colors. List Of Songs - Hey! Hey! Look At Me - Hot Cross Buns - Cuckoo Where Are You - Mary Had A Little Lamb - Largo (New World Symphony) - Good King Wenceslas - Do Re Mi Fa Sol - Ode To Joy - Au Clair de la Lune - Go Tell Aunt Rhody - Dodo l’enfant do - Lightly Row - London Bridge - Ring Around The Rosie - This Old Man - Twinkle, Twinkle - Jingle Bells - Happy - Frog in the Meadow - Donkeys Love Carrots - Good Morning Honey - C MAJOR SCALE - Tavalodet Mobarak (Persian Happy Birthday) - Hush Little Baby - Row Row Row Your Boat - Lullaby and Goodnight - The Wheels on the Bus - The Farmer in the Dell - Sweetly Sings the Donkey - My Beautiful Doll - Happy Birthday - I’m a Little Teapot - Amazing Grace - Hickory Dickory Dock - Brother John (2Hands) - The Muffin Man (2Hands) - Old Macdonald (2Hands) - Yankee Doodle (2Hands) - Twinkle, Twinkle (2Hands) - Black Cats (2Hands)

(Book). This is a landmark resource for elementary school teachers who wish to enhance their curriculum with the excitement of music technology. The lessons can be adapted and used in a general classroom setting with one computer, or in a classroom where the music teacher transports the materials "on a cart." Support audio files, MIDI files, and other electronic documents can be accessed for free through a dedicated web site. Includes a glossary and index.