Well-researched compilation of music information, analyzes nearly 1,000 of the world's most familiar melodies -- composers, lyricists, copyright date, first lines of music, lyrics, and other data. Includes 30 black-and-white illustrations.

A lively social history of popular wartime songs and how they helped America's home front morale.

First Published in 1999. This is the first supplement to the initial SongCite publication and serves as an index to recently published collections of popular songs. 201 music books have been included, with over 6,500 different compositions listed. The vast majority of the collections is comprised entirely of vocal music, although, on occasion, instrumental works have been included.

This book is volume five of McColloughs memoir. Ever since joining a writers group at the Saratoga Retirement Community in 2006 he has enjoyed writing these short pieces of memoir and commentary entitled VIN YETs. Because most of his life stories have been told, this book contains additional commentary on things that interest or annoy him. Every day seems to yield a surprise or two to reflect on. Tom McCollough is a business man who worked for Ross Laboratories for 43 years, the nutrition division of Abbott Laboratories. He was also a Fellow in the National Program for Educational Leadership. He and his wife, Marian, moved from Columbus, Ohio to the Saratoga Retirement Community in Saratoga, California in 2005. McCollough was 85 years old in 2014.

Swingin' on the Bars was written to afford middle school general music students the opportunity to learn about America's original brand of classical music --jazz-- by participating in hands-on, performance-based activities. The barred instruments, as found in music classrooms where the pedagogy of Carl Orff is used, provide a means for students with minimal formal instrumental training to experience jazz firsthand through direct experience and participation in performing the music. Teachers can help their students learn about the idioms of jazz in the way that young people best enjoy learning: through active participation and exploration. Presenting a variety of music arranged for Orff instrumentation in a swingin' style, this delightful collection is sure to engage your students' creativity while building musical skills. The sequence of tunes in this book represents difficulty levels in terms of mallet technique requirements and challenges resulting from more or less harmonic complexity. Each piece is preceded by a suggested teaching sequence and listening resources. Get your students Swingin' on the Bars today!