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H First Steps in Music (for Preschool and Beyond)—John
Feierabend. Advanced research continually points to the importance
of music in the lives of young children. Written by John Feierabend,
a national leader in early childhood music education, this creatively
illustrated book contains everything you need to lead a music
class for preschool and early elementary students. Includes lesson
plans for a three-year curriculum, echo songs, call-and-response
songs, simple songs, song tales, action songs, circle games, beat
motion activities and more. The repertoire is based solely on folk
and traditional songs and rhymes due to their natural melodic
expressiveness and flow of language, and for their texts filled with
wonder. The curriculum coordinates with the following CDs that
contain all the rhymes and music included in the book: Had a Little
Rooster #10004773; There's a Hole in the Bucket #10004770; Old
Joe Clark #10004775, and Keeping the Beat #3280872.
10018205 Book Curriculum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pre K.-K 46.95
10062120 Book & CD Pack Curricul. & 4 CDs . Pre K.-K 89.95
10083874 Pack 8 books with 4 CDs . . . . . . . Pre K.-K 170.00
10647352 Pack Enhanced Package: Books, CDs,
Flashcards & DVD Bundle . . . . . . . Pre K.-K 340.00
First Steps in Music: In Action—John M. Feierabend & Lillie
Feierabend. Here is a great way to see how the First Steps in Music
curriculum and activities are implemented in two general music
classes with six-year-olds. On this DVD, you will observe Lillie
Feierabend working with a group of children as she demonstrates
all eight parts of the curriculum as well as a wide variety of activities
and teaching techniques.
10438438 DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 24.95
First Steps in Music: the Lectures—John M. Feierabend. This
DVD set captures the ideas and spirit of master music educator John
M. Feierabend. In each DVD he presents a compelling vision for the
importance of music and music education in our lives, starting from
infancy and additionally introduces the First Steps in Music series.
Topics covered are: Who Is a Musical Person?, Endangered Musical
Minds, Music for Infants and Toddlers, Vocal Development in Preschool
and Beyond, and Movement Development in Preschool and Beyond.
10291431 DVD Pack of 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49.95
H First Steps in Music: Vocal Development Kit—John Feierabend.
John Feierabend has been a leader in helping young children
develop their singing voices. Now, with The First Steps in Music
Vocal Development Kit, teachers can use many of Dr. Feierabend's
favorite tools and techniques with students every day. Included in
the kit are puppets, toys, and instruments designed to help with two
types of vocal development activities. Pitch Exploration Activities
invite children to create sliding sounds and encourage them to use
their head voices. Echo Songs and Call and Response Songs allow
children to use their newly found head voices to sing short melodic
phrases. Whether used in conjunction with the First Steps in Music
Curriculum or independently, the activities in this kit will help develop
and maintain healthy vocal fitness in students of all ages.
3302608 Classroom Kit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pre K.-2 89.95
l Flex! (30 Easy Ensembles for Whatever You Have)—Mark
Shelton. Instruments are so important in a quality music education,
but some struggle with using them effectively, especially if you don't
have all the instruments you would like to have. Here's the answer!
This book offers 30 opportunities to practice ensemble skills with
whatever instruments you have - whether a plethora of fantastic
instruments or simply body percussion. Develop your students'
skills while they experience a variety of styles, key signatures, and
rhythmic figures that will stay with them in their musical journey.
Use with barred percussion, buckets, Boomwhackers, conventional
classroom percussion instruments, found sounds, and body
percussion. Downloadable recordings included.
11123852 Reproducible Book with online resources. 3-8 19.95
Going to the Amusement Park: Exploring the Barred
Instruments—Cori Bloom. This activity is designed as a
fun way to explore the barred instruments and an introduction to
composing. The lessons will take your classes through a unique
journey to an amusement park as students explore all of the sounds
they can make on their instruments. Then, students are asked to
create their own trip to the amusement park using some of the
sounds from the lesson using the included worksheets to help guide
their journey. A great lesson at the beginning of first grade to help
students become comfortable with the instruments and to explore
different sounds.
11100312F Digital Resources PPT/PDF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.00
Greek Myths in Modes—Danai D. Apostolidou-Gagne/Judith
Thomas-Solomon. This collection presents Greek myths adapted
through the use of music, movement, speech play, and modes in
an open-ended, elemental style for grades 4, 5 and 6. These stories
have been modeled in the spirit Carl Orff intended, where there is
room for personal invention and improvisation by both teacher and
student. The dramas were developed in contrasting styles to be
used as separate units or as complementary groupings for longer
programmatic use. The CD-ROM contains audio files, actor and
narrator scripts, visuals, full scores and more!
10946272 Book & CD-ROM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34.95
Here's Two (A Jazz Collection for the Orff Classroom)—
Patrick Ware. Most of the pieces are layered ostinati with a
melody; you decide when to layer in parts, how many times
to repeat a section, when to begin improvised solos, and what
instrument combination to use. Each piece has a lesson guide
which includes listening-with-commentary, a brief analysis,
methodology for teaching, an extension activity, suggestions for
adding unpitched rhythm, and incorporating improvisation. The
included CD-ROM contains visual aids to help with ensemble and
solo instrument setup, MP3 audio files for each piece, and full
scores and student parts.
10150019 Book & CD-ROM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-8 24.95
Hot Marimba!—Walt Hampton. Raise the energy level of your
Orff instrument ensembles with these incredible pieces inspired by
the marimba bands of Zimbabwe! Percussionist Walt Hampton has
provided helpful performance hints and cultural background, making
for a truly rewarding musical experience for your students!
5420526 Book & CD Pack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-6 24.95
Interactive Folksongs—Cristi Cary Miller. Enhance interactivity
in your classroom with this multimedia resource that teaches
eight folksong melodies accompanied by simple Orff instrument
ostinatos from projectable music lessons. Special interactive
software is not required.
10317481 Digital Resources with Online Audio. . . . . 2-5 29.99
It's a Great Day for Music (Rhythm, Orff, and Song for All
Year Long)—Jane Lamb. This inspiring Orff collection is jam-
packed with musical creativity for your K-5 Orff classroom. Songs
for rhythm speech and pitch singing are included and written to
teach steady beat, movement, and use of barred and unpitched
percussion ostinato. Other teaching highlights include rhythmic
and melodic writing for students, improvisation, musical styles and
solfege. Think of each piece as a starting point for your students to
unleash their creativity! Full scores, helpful teaching suggestions,
lesson objectives and extensions are provided, along with digital
access to PDFs of singer songsheets. 23 songs including: Animal
Sounds; Beat Bear; Caterpillar Caterpillar; The Color Song; Five
Frogs on a Log; Howdy Do; I Like to Go to School; Katy Kangaroo;
Pizza; Play Your Name; School Is Cool and more!
10766505 Book & Online PDF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . K-5 34.99
It's Time for Music—Reilly/Olson. A unique three-part package
which includes a CD, Songbook and Teacher's Handbook. Easy-
to-use lesson plans are coordinated with 40 minutes of music
incorporating Orff instrument accompaniments and Kodaly hand
signs. Designed to spark excitement and encourage development
for every child ages 3 to 7. Perfect for children's center leaders,
classroom teachers, music teachers and parents.
3157401 Teacher's Edition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.95
3270287 CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.95
5470729 Book & CD Pack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37.95
Jig!—Doug Edwards. Explore the captivating music of Ireland
with these engaging arrangements. Suitable for standard
classroom barred percussion and adaptable enough to fit your
ensemble's needs, this collection of ten lively Irish tunes is sure
to inspire exciting lessons and performances that your students
and audiences will love.
10544071 Book & CD-ROM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-8 19.95
Kalani's World Rhythms—Kalani Das. Energize your classroom
with traditional world music! From the simplest of rhythm patterns
to beautiful melodies and rich harmonies, there's a part to play
for every student as they explore authentic songs and rhythms.
Easy-to-play drumming arrangements place success and fun
within reach of every student with Kalani as your guest instructor!
Authentic techniques and rhythms for a range of drums and
percussion instruments are demonstrated via downloadable video
and audio recordings. PDF scores of each song provide piano and
Orff instrument parts, and every song is suitable for ukuleles and
other chordal instruments. Each song tells a story that can be used
to prompt creative movement, foster teamwork and build character.
Songs include: Baiana, Kakilambe, Moribayasa, Paranaue, Tambor
and Zun Zun.
10766496 Book with online video,
audio & PDF access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-8 49.99
Lessons in Elemental Style—Steven Calantropio. This is a
collection of original works and folk music arrangements with
detailed process teaching steps and suggestions. The lessons
span a stylistic range from the most traditional of folk songs
arranged in parts to experimental ideas that mirror contemporary
trends in music. This is both a continuation and elaboration of
the ideas and materials presented in Mr. Calantropio's first book
Pieces and Processes.
10559182 Book. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-6 19.99
Listen, Sing, Rattle, Ding (Lesson Ideas to Take a Little
Song a Long Way)—Mari Schay. Use the timeless appeal
of folk and camp songs to energize and enrich your lower
elementary classroom repertoire. Innovative educator Mari Schay
takes the simple songs to a new level with her brain based lesson
plans. Each lesson offers students the opportunity to listen, sing
and play instruments. Printable teaching aids are available on the
included CD.
10280935 Book & CD-ROM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pre K.-2 24.95
Mallets 'n' More—Gloria Fuoco-Lawson. This is a collection of
original songs, classic folk-song arrangements, and movement
activities with Orff process lesson plans and full Orff-style
orchestrations. Movement is used to introduce mallet technique to
the youngest students while improvisation is the component used for
the intermediate and advanced players.
10557437 Book. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . K-8 29.95
Marimba Mojo!—Walt Hampton. Mojo means magic, and these
twelve original pieces inspired by the marimba music of the Shona
people of Zimbabwe create a truly magical effect! From the preliminary
exercises to the last beat of the "Musasa," these pieces are graduated
in difficulty, and the scores are reproducible so you can involve as
many students as you like for a Zimbabwean-style extravaganza!
5609086 Reproducible Book & CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24.95
Modal Mosaic—Robert A. Amchin. The classic modes are perfect
vehicles for improvisation. These short pieces with complete Orff
process lesson plans can kick-start students' composition and
improvisation skills. The excellent and clearly written orchestrations
of modal melodies and sequential Orff process lesson plans make
this a great reference for Orff teachers looking to expand their
teaching repertoire. The enhanced CD-ROM includes full scores
and full-color visuals as well as high-quality audio files of each song.
10530900 Book & Enhanced CD-ROM. . . . . . . . . . . 4-8 34.95
Musica Activa (An Approach to Music Education: Rhythmic
Expression)—Jos Wuytack/ed. Judy Sills. This is an adaptation
of Jos Wuytack's Musica Viva 2 - Expression rythmique, first
published in French in 1982 and focuses on the element of rhythm
within the pedagogical framework of the Active Method, based
on the principles of Carl Orff, Contents include: The ABCs of the
Orff; Pedagogy Notes for Teachers; Verbal Expression; Speech
Choir; Rhythmic Imitation; Rhythmic Canon; Question and Answer
Technique; Rhythmic Rondo; Ostinato; Rhythmic Reading Games;
Rhythmic Creativity; Movement. A must have for anyone using the
Orff approach.
5331392 Book Volume 1 Rhythmic Expressions . . . . . . . 29.95
10872182 Book Volume 2 Melodic Expression . . . . . . . . . 34.95
Name Games—Doug Goodkin. This is a wonderful potpourri
of games for all age levels. There are many opportunities for
integrating the curriculum, and the developmental process of this
book is based on the Orff-Schulwerk method. Have fun with such
games as Spelling Name, Name Stories, Icky Bicky Soda Cracker,
Rumpelstiltskin, Birthday Groups and more.
5705835 Book. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . K-4 14.95
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