Based on the 5-tone pentatonic scale, here is a creative collection of folksong partners for voice and piano arranged by music specialist, Cristi Cary Miller. These well-crafted arrangements incorporate simple Orff accompaniments and vocal ostinati for instant harmonic fun Planning and preparation will be a breeze with the easy-to-follow teaching plans, movement suggestions and a variety of innovative activities. Reproducible songsheets are an added bonus Songs include: Great Mornin', Good News, This Train, Ezekiel Saw the Wheel, Wade in the Water, Wayfarin' Stranger, Cape Cod Chantey, Cedar Swamp, Crawdad Hole and 20 more For Gr. 2-6.

Choral Artistry provides a practical and organic approach to teaching choral singing and sight-reading. The text is grounded in current research from the fields of choral pedagogy, music theory, music perception and cognition. Topics include framing a choral curriculum based on the Kodály concept; launching the academic year for beginning, intermediate, and advanced choirs; building partwork skills; sight-reading; progressive music theory sequences for middle to college level choirs; teaching strategies; choral rehearsal plans as well as samples of how to teach specific repertoire from medieval to contemporary choral composers. As part of the Kodály philosophy's practical approach, authors Micheál Houlahan and Philip Tacka employ two models for learning choral literature: Performance Through Sound Analysis Pedagogy (PTSA) and Performance through Sound Analysis and Notation (PTSAN). Both models delineate an approach to teaching a choral work that significantly improves students' musicianship while engaging the ensemble in learning the overall composition in partnership with the conductor. The final chapter of the book includes rubrics to assess the effectiveness of a choral program. This book does not purport to be a comprehensive choral pedagogy text. It is a detailed guide to helping choral directors at all levels improve the choral singing and musicianship of their students from a Kodály perspective.

Here’s a great way to introduce your young singers to 10 Broadway classics while developing independent part-singing! There’s nothing more fun than a partner song, and this terrific collection features well-known favorites that will never go out of style! Includes easy-to-teach staging suggestions where appropriate. Titles: *Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) *Comedy Tonight (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum) *Ease on Down the Road (The Wiz) *The Gold Diggers’ Song (We’re in the Money) (42nd Street) *Look to the Rainbow (Finian’s Rainbow) *Soon It’s Gonna Rain (The Fantasticks) *Tea for Two (No, No, Nanette) *Together Wherever We Go (Gypsy) *Wouldn’t It Be Loverly (My Fair Lady) *Yankee Doodle Boy (Little Johnny Jones and George M.)

More than a pattern book, this lays out the theory behind the use of pentatonic scales in jazz, and follows with transcribed solos and exercises. Still a favorite after 14 years, this book has become a standard in the field.

These lessons are aimed to teach elementary students basic melodic concepts to guide them through composing simple melodies using a keyboard or piano. By the end of these lessons, elementary students will have a basic understanding of melody creation and will be able to compose simple tunes on the keyboard. Each lesson builds on the previous, guiding them from basic exploration to more complex melodic structures.

(Guitar Educational). If you've been finding yourself trapped in the pentatonic box, then Connecting Pentatonic Patterns is for you! This hands-on instructional book with audio offers examples for guitar players of all levels, from beginner to advanced. The only prerequisites are a basic understanding of the minor pentatonic scale and a desire to expand your fretboard horizons. Study this book faithfully, and soon you'll be soloing all over the neck with the greatest of ease. Includes audio demonstrations of every example in the book, plus jam tracks for practicing!