Music Out of a Hat: Grades K-3

What's the best way to learn concepts? Through experience! How about a great way to memorize facts? By singing! This ingenious collection demonstrates fundamental musical concepts while clever lyrics define them. Dynamics, articulations, tempo markings, treble and bass clef note names, rests, fermatas, and more - it's all about music! Mark includes creative lessons (often games) and suggests related listening (usually masterworks) for every song in the book. So fun, kids won't realize they're learning. So fundamental, curriculum planning is a cinch! Recommended for grades 2-6. / Formation Musicale

A Musical That Celebrates What's Underneath!-Grab your hat! It's time to party! Hats of all shapes and sizes take over the stage when a group of milliners help Hatless Hank find the perfect hat. Clever rhyming script and song writing explore all kinds of hats their uses andthe people who wear them. A surprise awaits the audience when Ima Milliner appears in her own remarkable stupendous contagious hat of all hats! Discover that it's not the hat that makes a person special but what's underneath!From hilarious to heart-warming this 20-minute musical for young performers in Grades K-3 entertains and educates with five original songs and a script featuring over 30 speaking parts. The enhanced Teacher Edition with SingerCD-ROM includes piano/vocal arrangements with choreography helpful production guide with staging and costume suggestions teaching objectives linked to the National Standards for each song PLUS reproducible singer parts on theenclosed CD-ROM. Available separately: Teacher/SGR CD-ROM Preview CD Preview Pak Performance/Accompaniment CD and a Classroom Kit with Teacher/Singer and Performance/Accompaniment CD for extra value! Duration: ca. 20 minutes.Suggested for grades K-3.

new edition from 2011-Aural tests are an integral part of all ABRSM Practical graded music exams. The Specimen Aural Tests provide teachers and students with many practice examples of the tests to use as part of a music lesson or when preparing for an exam.This volume covers Grades 4-5 and includes: practice examples for each test in a range of musical styles the examiner rubrics (the exact words that will be used by the examiner to deliver the tests) so that candidates can be fully prepared for what will happen on the day descriptions of the tests as they appear in the syllabus model answers where appropriate as aguide to the sort of responses that would be successful in the exam The Specimen Aural Tests volumes are each available in versions with or without CDs.

new edition from 2011-Aural tests are an integral part of all ABRSM Practical graded music exams. The Specimen Aural Tests provide teachers and students with many practice examples of the tests to use as part of a music lesson or when preparing for an exam.This volume covers Grades 1 3 and includes:practice examples for each test in a range of musical stylesthe examiner rubrics (the exact words that will be used by the examiner to deliver the tests) so that candidates can be fully prepared for what will happen on the daydescriptions of the tests as they appear in the syllabusmodel answers where appropriate as a guide to the sort ofresponses that would be successful in the examThe Specimen Aural Tests volumes are each available in versions with or without CDs.

New edition-Aural Training in Practice offers valuable support to teachers preparing students for ABRSM Practical exams. The three volumes covering Grades 1-3 Grades 4-5 and Grades 6-8 provide:information on what each test involves and what the examiner is looking forteaching hints and strategies including warm-up material and ideas for integrating aural into lessonsmany practice exercises to prepare students for the examCD recordings of all practice exercises and examples in two or more parts presented by an ABRSM examineranswers both recorded and printed where appropriate as a guide to the sort of responses thatwould be successful in the exam

Once upon a time, a hardworking music teacher was determined to slay the dragons of student doldrums. She looked far and wide for meaningful yet entertaining lessons that would engage her students while addressing the Common Core music standards. One day, she happened upon a set of enchanting books filled with folk tales, fairy tales, nursery rhymes, myths, legends, and more. As they dove into the grade-appropriate literature and music activities, her students became active musicians and lived happily ever after! Each volume of Once Upon a Music Class includes 20 lessons, complete with objectives, procedures, reproducible student pages, and all necessary recordings. Recommended for grades three through six. / Formation Musicale

Music literacy is essential for enhancing your skills. It empowers you to appreciate the richness of music and to communicate it with confidence. ABRSM's Music Theory In Practice workbooks have helped more than one million musicians worldwide to learn about the theory of music.The new Music Theory In Practice Model Answers series is a practical tool to use alongside the fully-revised workbooks for Music Theory In Practice Grades 1 to 5 providing specimen answers to each exercise covered. Each book includes:Correct answers to every question.Accepted options where there can be more that one answer.Model answers for composition-stylequestions.This answer book will help you to prepare in the best way possible for the ABRSM Grade 4 Theory Of Music exam.

Improve Your Theory! Grades 1 5 are the latest additions to the bestselling ‘Improve your …’ series by Paul Harris. This theory workbook takes students through every aspect of music theory covered in the grade 3 ABRSM examination. Firmly rooted in Paul Harris’ Simultaneous Learning approach it will transform how music theory is taught and learnt improving every aspect of musicianship along the way. Never before has theory been so fun or seemed so natural!Handy fact files that cover different areas of music theory.Practice questions to help students prepare for examinations.Fun games and quizzes to engagestudents and offer new and interesting ways to tackle difficult concepts.Questions that connect theory directly with pupils’ own pieces allowing them to discover the links between music in theory and music in practice.Opportunities for composing improvising aural and listening activities all carefully devised to consolidate musical understanding.

Step Up To GCSE Music is the authoritative resource for getting you up to speed with the core content of the new GCSEs which will be taught in schools in England and Wales from 2016.   Whatever instrument you play whatever your background this clear and accessible guide:   Provides 14 sessions that can be tackled one-per-day for a fortnight's 'crash-course' in the holidays or spaced out over a school term Gets you up to speed with stave notation and the musical language requirements for all GCSE boards Contains regular tests to make sure that you fully understand eachtopic Helps you to achieve the highest grades

One Singular Sensational Holiday Revue-Auditions are underway for the 400th Anniversary of North Pole Musical and everyone is in a panic! The dancing Reindeer are ?hoofin' it ? but don't know what to do with Rudolph and his 4 left hooves. The elves aretired of always getting the short end of the stick and are singin' the blues. The snowmen are ?chillin'? but worried about the funky hot lights and the toys are trying to do the entire Nutcracker Suite in 3 minutes!The annual Christmas show keeps getting bigger and bigger each year. But wait a minute! Is bigger really better? See how Santa finds a way to remind everyone of the true meaning of the season. This sensational 35-minute holidayrevue features seven original songs in a variety of musical styles choreography and helpful production guide and a script with 26 speaking parts and adaptable cast list for groups of varying sizes and teaching objectives linkedto the National Standards for each song. The expanded Performance Kit/CD provides 20 Singer books along with the Teacher Edition and a P/A CD. Available separately: Teacher Edition Singer Edition 5-Pak Preview CD (withvocals) Preview Pak (1 singer book 1 Preview CD) Performance/Accompaniment CD Performance Kit/CD (Teacher 20 singer books P/A CD). Duration: ca. 35 minutes. Suggested for grades 4-8.

The AB Guide To Music Theory is intended to help people learning music to understand how music is written down what the various signs and symbols denote and what is meant by the common technical words used by musicians. Arising out of this it provides an introduction to the basic elements in harmony and musical structure. In the main this book deals with the subjects of the Associated Board's theory syllabus for Grades 1-5. However for the sake of continuity the information has not been broken up to correspond with individual grades.

new edition from 2011-Aural tests are an integral part of all ABRSM Practical graded music exams. The Specimen Aural Tests provide teachers and students with many practice examples of the tests to use as part of a music lesson or when preparing for an exam.This volume covers Grades 6 and includes:practice examples for each test in a range of musical stylesthe examiner rubrics (the exact words that will be used by the examiner to deliver the tests) so that candidates can be fully prepared for what will happen on the daydescriptions of the tests as they appear in the syllabusmodel answers where appropriate as a guide to the sort ofresponses that would be successful in the examThe Specimen Aural Tests volumes are each available in versions with or without CDs.

new edition from 2011-Aural tests are an integral part of all ABRSM Practical graded music exams. The Specimen Aural Tests provide teachers and students with many practice examples of the tests to use as part of a music lesson or when preparing for an exam.This volume covers Grades 6 and includes: practice examples for each test in a range of musical styles the examiner rubrics (the exact words that will be used by the examiner to deliver the tests) so that candidates can be fully prepared for what will happen on the day descriptions of the tests as they appear in the syllabus model answers where appropriate as aguide to the sort of responses that would be successful in the exam The Specimen Aural Tests volumes are each available in versions with or without CDs.

new edition from 2011-Aural tests are an integral part of all ABRSM Practical graded music exams. The Specimen Aural Tests provide teachers and students with many practice examples of the tests to use as part of a music lesson or when preparing for an exam.This volume covers Grades 8 and includes: practice examples for each test in a range of musical styles the examiner rubrics (the exact words that will be used by the examiner to deliver the tests) so that candidates can be fully prepared for what will happen on the day descriptions of the tests as they appear in the syllabus model answers where appropriate as aguide to the sort of responses that would be successful in the exam The Specimen Aural Tests volumes are each available in versions with or without CDs.

A Holiday Musical That Will Keep You Awake!-Grab your pjs and pillows - the cousins are coming for a holiday sleepover! But when sleepiness begins to take over the toys decide it's time to 'liven' things up. Join the merriment with dancing dolls disco bears marchingsoldiers somersaulting rag dolls and a special visit from the jolly red fella himself! Discover that it's never too late to start spreading peace and goodwill. Designed for young performers in the primary grades this delightfulmusical features five original songs clever rhyming dialog easily adaptable to casts of varying sizes simple movement and helpful production tips to help stage a successful performance especially when time is limited. 'Livenup' holiday spirit in your school this December with another spectacular show from the popular writing team of John Jacobson and John Higgins! Available: Teacher Edition Reproducible Pak (vocals dialog lyric sheets) Preview CD(with vocals only) Preview Pak (Prev. CD and sample pages) Performance/Accompaniment CD and Classroom Kit (Teacher Repro Pak P/A CD). Performance Time: approx. 25 minutes. For Grades K-3.