General Music 2019-2020

Classroom Aids

Music Theory (cont’d)

Composers’ Special Series

Ready to Read Music Jay Althouse Grades K-8 Sequential Lessons in Music Reading Readiness. This 100% reproducible book is packed with four sequen- tial units of eight lessons each, all designed to prepare your students to read music. Most of the lessons are followed by a page of exercises, ideal for student assessment. And there are page after page of large, reproducible

Composers’ Specials Teacher’s Guide Henderson Grades 3-8 A variety of lesson plans are included to enhance the popular Composers’ Special Video Series . You and your students will enjoy dozens of activi- ties including easy-to-follow listening maps and many other reproducible student activities.

Composers’ Specials Collection of 6 DVDs Includes all 6 DVDs from the series.

music symbols…great for bulletin boards and flash card learning. Teacher’s Manual w/CD 15235801 $29.99

Rhythm Rescue Lynn M. Brinckmeyer

Teacher’s Manual

12311100 $19.99

DVD 17197300 $159.95 Bach’s Fight for Freedom 53 Minutes

Liszt’s Rhapsody 49 Minutes

The backbone of any piece of music is the rhythmic foundation. One of the biggest challenges for singers is being able to see and immediately reproduce a correct rhythm, especially if the singer does not also play an instrument. Developing that internal beat is crucial. Lynn Brinkmeyer brings her musical expertise in her new book, Rhythm Rescue, with the intention to expand the rhythmic

Rich and successful, the dashing young musical superstar Franz Liszt knows that something is missing in his glamorous life. He meets Josy, a naturally gifted young Gypsy street musician, and wagers that he can turn Josy into a world-class musician. The bet turns into a mighty struggle of wills – the worldly sophisticate against the resourceful Gypsy boy and a conflict of freedom vs. discipline, heart vs. brain, passion vs. technique. DVD 11051901 $19.98 Rossini’s Ghost 52 Minutes

It’s bad enough Johann’s boss stifles his creativity. Now the fool has given him a servant he suspects is a spy! But soon, the temperamental composer recognizes a kindred soul in his new 10-year-old assistant, for both know too well what it’s like not to be able to follow your dream. Set in 1717, Bach’s 32nd year, this film argues that the only master you can serve faithfully is your own heart. DVD 11051601 $29.99 Bizet’s Dream 53 Minutes

vocabulary of singers. Students of all ages are more successful if they use a physical gesture during the learning process. Singers do not have a lever, a bow, strings, or buttons to push like instrumen- talists do. Physiology helps solidify those rhythms in the body and Lynn has created fun and exciting rhythm exercises to teach and reinforce rhythm learning in the classroom and rehearsal. Teacher’s Manual HL35031313 $14.99 Rhythm Workshop Sally Albrecht

In a kitchen in Italy in 1862, little Reliana helps her grandmother Rosalie make pasta sauce. Rosalie argues with her oldest friend Martina and tells the story of an opera composer they once both knew. Soon, Reliana finds herself transported through time back to a theater in Rome nearly 50 years earlier. She is invisible to everyone but

Set in Paris in 1875, twelve-year- old Michelle doesn’t like her piano teacher. Monsieur Bizet is irritable, forgetful, aloof – distracted by a failing marriage and the rigors of composing his new opera. But as the composer begins to tell Michelle the story of the gypsy Carmen, her imagination is captured. This is the

This reproducible book will encourage and train your students to develop solid rhythmic reading skills. It features 100 pages containing over 500 rhythm exercises in a variety of time signatures. New concepts are introduced, then combined together to challenge and motivate. The

the composer, Signor Rossini. She watches in alarm as one of the singers puts a curse on the production and everything begins to go wrong. Set in 1816, the year the Barber of Seville had its disastrous premiere, Rossini’s Ghost is the story of three women who learn that friendship, like opera – or a great pasta sauce - requires nurturing, patience, and time. DVD 11052001 $19.98

story of a friendship between two people who share the ability to feel life deeply and a beautifully filmed testament to the power of music to set those feelings free. DVD 11051701 $29.99 Handel’s Last Chance 51 Minutes

Enhanced CD includes reproducible PDF files of each page, plus multiple rhythm audio tracks in various musical styles and tempos to accompany your students as they clap, tap, play, or speak the rhythms. Teacher’s Manual w/Enhanced CD23897500 $34.99 Which Rhythm Do You Hear Grades K-5

Strauss: The King of Three-Quarter Time 52 Minutes The year is 1868, the city. Vienna, the music exhilarating, yet all is not well with Johann Strauss, Jr., the darling of waltzing Vienna. Haunted by the constant pressure to outdo himself with each new composition, Strauss meets Nicholas, a humble stable boy who fears his brutal stepfather. To their surprise, the composer and the

It is 1742 and we are in Dublin, where ten-year-old Jamie O’Flaherty and the brilliant composer George Frideric Handel live. Jamie, who comes from a very poor family, has been caught stealing and is in jail. Handel, whose career is failing, needs his newest composition to be a big

Which Rhythm Do You Hear is a great resource for teaching and assessing rhythm reading and writing for students from K - Gr. 5. There are twelve levels available so that you can tailor this activity to each class. Each level focuses on one type of rhythm. As the students become familiar with

hit. By a stroke of destiny, the young boy and the composer become unlikely allies. Handel gets Jamie out of jail and the boy lends his golden voice to the first performance of Messiah . This production is filled with many of Handel’s most glorious musical works. DVD 11051801 $29.99

the basic rhythms by using the projectable and assessment worksheets, they will progress to dotted, syncopated, and triplet rhythms. Included on the disk are projectable PDF/PPTs for every level, projectable Assessment PDF/PPTs, and assessment worksheets. Teacher’s Book TV812 $35.00

boy find in one another a piece of life’s emotional puzzle, discover- ing the healing bond of trust and embarking on a collaboration that will be music to the world’s ears. DVD 11052101 $29.99

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