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.
These ten top Broadway tunes will satisfy every student's Boomwhacker urge! The package includes teaching suggestions, reproducible visuals, and a cool play-along CD with full performance and accompaniment tracks. The written arrangements include melody and accompaniment parts, with many teaching options for various skill levels. Contains: [ I Don't Need Anything But You (Annie) * Big Spender (Sweet Charity) * Aquarius (Hair) * Kids! (Bye, Bye Birdie) * Day by Day (Godspell) * If I Were a Rich Man (Fiddler on the Roof) * Let the Sunshine In (Hair) * Applause (Applause) * Hernando's Hideaway (The Pajama Game) * One Boy (Girl) (Bye, Bye Birdie).
Finally, just what general music teachers and students have been waiting for: ten great movie and TV songs to play on fun, colorful Boomwhacker(R) Musical Tubes! Includes a cool play-along CD with full performance and accompaniment tracks, melody and accompaniment parts, and teaching suggestions and reproducible visuals. Titles: The Ballad of Gilligan's Isle * Batman Theme * Gonna Fly Now (Theme from Rocky) * Jeopardy Theme * The Lion Sleeps Tonight * Once Upon a December * Over the Rainbow * The Pink Panther * Singin' in the Rain * Star Wars (Main Theme). Appropriate for upper elementary and middle school music classes. Look for other titles in the Boom Boom! series!
We call this series “I don’t read music” since we are targeting beginners of all ages: children, teens, parents, grandparents. Folk music traditionally is not learned from sheet music or notes. Instead, it is learned by repetition and from being passed from generation to generation. We believe in this method of teaching, which is easier and more enjoyable. This book includes 58 familiar and easy-to-play folk songs and melodies. Each song here is written with color circles and letter notes inside. All songs have been simplified and transposed for one octave. Since this book is aimed at the absolute beginner without any knowledge of reading music, we do not use here the classical music staff and do not show the note duration. You can experiment with the duration on your own. If you have very little music experience, playing by note can be difficult. It is easier to follow color-coded circles with note letters. By simply following the color circles, you will sound like an experienced musician. We use here the Boomwhackers® color system commonly used by American music teachers. We call this series “I don’t read music” since we are targeting beginners of all ages: children, teens, parents, grandparents. Folk music traditionally is not learned from sheet music or notes. Instead, it is learned by repetition and from being passed from generation to generation. We believe in this method of teaching, which is easier and more enjoyable. Our simple method using circles as an aid allows the flexibility that existed in traditional ways of teaching. We recommend finding each of these songs on YouTube and listening to the rhythm before beginning to play. Our sheet music is only a guide. The most important thing is to listen and repeat what is heard in the recordings. Contents Alphabet Song A Hunting We Will Go A Sailor Went to Sea Acka Backa Are You Sleeping Baa Baa Black Sheep Baby Bumble Bee Bell Horses Bim Bum Biddy Bobby Shafto Brahms Lullaby Chumbara Cobbler, Mend My Shoe Cock-a-Doodle Doo Ding Dong DiggiDiggiDong Do You Know the Muffin Man? Doggie Doggie Fiddle-De-Dee Five Little Ducks Five Little Monkeys Frog in the Meadow Happy Birthday Hot Cross Buns It's Raining Itsy Bitsy Spider Jack and Jill Jingle Bells Jolly Old Saint Nicholas Kookaburra La Cucaracha Little Jack Horner London Bridge Mary Had a Little Lamb Miss Mary Mack My Hat Ninety-Nine Bottles Ode to Joy Oh Susannah Oh We Can Play on the Big Bass Drum Old Bald Eagle Old Blue Old McDonald Old Mother Hubbard Rain, Rain, Go Away Ring Around the Rosie Row Row Your Boat Rub-a-Dub-Dub See-Saw Margery Daw Ten in the Bed The Beep and the Pup The Big Sheep The Mulberry Bush The Wheels on the Bus This Old Man Tinga Layo To Market, to Market Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Sometimes it's fun to act crazy, giddy, and foolish all day long! Full-color illustrations make this well-known children's camp song especially fun to sing. This hardcover library bound book comes with CD and online music access.
The ideal handbook for every rock-n-roll pilgrim, Music USA tours the musical heritage of America, from New York to Seattle, stopping at all the shrines of sound in between. Coverage includes background on the development of local music styles, with details on clubs and venues, radio stations and record stores nationwide.
Zilphia Horton was a pioneer of cultural organizing, an activist and musician who taught people how to use the arts as a tool for social change, and a catalyst for anthems of empowerment such as “We Shall Overcome” and “We Shall Not Be Moved.” Her contributions to the Highlander Folk School, a pivotal center of the labor and civil rights movements in the mid-twentieth century, and her work creating the songbook of the labor movement influenced countless figures, from Woody Guthrie to Eleanor Roosevelt to Rosa Parks. Despite her outsized impact, Horton’s story is little known. A Singing Army introduces this overlooked figure to the world. Drawing on extensive archival and oral history research, as well as numerous interviews with Horton's family and friends, Kim Ruehl chronicles her life from her childhood in Arkansas coal country, through her formative travels and friendship with radical Presbyterian minister Claude C. Williams, and into her instrumental work in desegregation and fostering the music of the civil rights era. Revealing these experiences—as well as her unconventional marriage and controversial death by poisoning—A Singing Army tells the story of an all-but-forgotten woman who inspired thousands of working-class people to stand up and sing for freedom and equality.
