Educational

Every child loves to play, and this handy classroom resource lets them do just that! Nationally renowned elementary music educator and clinician Cheryl Lavender has done it ... AGAIN ... with these 'tried-and-true music recipes' from her classroom to yours. Here are learning games which reinforce the basic musical concepts of melody, rhythm and tone color, while encouraging sharing, participation and cooperation. Games include: World-Wide Hello, Where's the Beat?, Dyno Dynamics, Musical Charades, Movie Music Match-Up, Name Game, Jump Back Baby, Music Is Math, It's Talent Day. Available: Book and Companion CD (#08740892). Grades K-6.

Here's a collection of incredibly successful games and activities for the elementary music classroom. IT'S YOUR TURN emphasizes the art of 'play' - the ultimate learning tool for children of all ages. This book features large-group, fun-filled experiences which reinforce basic musical concepts such as melody, rhythm or tone color. Highlights include: Surfin', Hand Jivin', Rockin' Rhythms, Tune-a-Grams, Invasion of the Soap Bubbles, Boogie Woogie Rap and much more. For Gr. 1-6.

From Thom Mason comes a fun and interesting guide to help you develop aural skills. This book focuses on improving your technique in hearing pitches, rhythms, melodies, and chord progressions, as directly to applied to actual music in the jazz repertoire. The text will help you to hear music in your head from the written page, transcribe, and sight sing, all the while making it musical through appropriate jazz phrasing and articulations. The valuable lessons learned can be applied to any instrument or voice, with skills that transcend jazz, useful in all styles of music.

In music, students are often force-fed scales, without ever really being told why these scales are important. By the end of this book you'll understand not only the relation between scales and chords, but also other basics that will get you understanding and playing music better. For all levels of musicians, and all instruments

More than 100 original practice choruses! Terrific material to add to every jazz musician's daily routine.

This book makes the teaching of improvisation as time-efficient for a group of twenty as it is for a single student. An innovative layout and terrific instructional material make this book a superior jazz tool.

Jazz Theory Resources is a jazz theory text in two volumes. Volume I (00030458, $39.95) includes: review of basic theory, rhythm in jazz performance, basic tonal materials, triadic generalization, diatonic harmonic progressions and harmonic analysis, substitutions and turnarounds, common melodic outlines, and an overview of voicings. Volume II (00030459, $29.95) includes: modes and modal frameworks, quartal harmony, other scales and colors, extended tertian structures and triadic superimposition, pentatonic applications, coloring outside the lines and beyond, analysis, and expanding harmonic vocabulary. Appendices on chord/scale relationships, elaborations of static harmony, endings, composing tips and theory applications are also included.

Jazz Theory Resources is a jazz theory text in two volumes. Volume I (00030458, $39.95) includes: review of basic theory, rhythm in jazz performance, basic tonal materials, triadic generalization, diatonic harmonic progressions and harmonic analysis, substitutions and turnarounds, common melodic outlines, and an overview of voicings. Volume II (00030459, $29.95) includes: modes and modal frameworks, quartal harmony, other scales and colors, extended tertian structures and triadic superimposition, pentatonic applications, coloring outside the lines and beyond, analysis, and expanding harmonic vocabulary. Appendices on chord/scale relationships, elaborations of static harmony, endings, composing tips and theory applications are also included.