Fun Songs for Learning Essential Sight Words-Reading is one of the most critical skills taught in school. An essential goal in developing this skill is making sure students are completely proficient with Sight Words. The popular ?Sing and Learn? series from Hal Leonard presents I Can We Can a creative and motivational resource that uses music to reinforce the learning of essential sight words. The Activity Songbook/Listening CD features reproducible song melodies movement suggestions activities and games all presented in a sequential teaching format. Reproducible song pictures with highlighted Sight Words and illustrations are also included for additional learning reinforcement. The enclosed Listening CDprovides song recordings to listen and sing-along. A CD-ROM is also available either separately or in a Classroom Kit with the Activity Songbook/Listening CD. This Enhanced CD-ROM includes song recordings with singers and without and printable PDFs of singer melodies full color song pictures piano accompaniments activities and artwork. Fun learning through music! Available separately: Activity Songbook/Listening CD Enhanced CD and Classroom Kit. Lessons and activities by Elizabeth Shier; with special thanks to Sarah Giordano for her creative input. Suggested for grades PreK-1.

Time and rhythm are king! Number one! We are constantly aware of this fact when we are playing or listening to improvised music. All notes seem to sound good when they are played with good time. Even melodies that use wrong notes sound good when played with good time. What often packages a good time feel are the rhythms a particular artist chooses to use. This book hopefully lends some insight into practicing and playing creative rhythms in a melodic way. (Jerry Bergonzi) The CD provides 10 standard chord progressions, each played in two different tempos by Bruce Barth on piano, Dave Santoro on bass, and Adam Nussbaum on drums. In addition Jerry demonstrates various approaches and exercises on tenor saxophone.

Oeuvres de Beethoven pour piano solo - les sonates, variations, et bagatelles - et les cinq concertos pour piano et orchestre sont au coeur du répertoire. Musique pour piano de Beethoven: le Guide de l'auditeur, par Victor Lederer, aidera le lecteur à comprendre motivé cette musique populaire, mais souvent noueux. La majeure partie du texte consiste en une analyse du mouvement par le mouvement des 32 sonates, fascinant pour leur individualité et pour la manière dont ils tracent le développement de la maîtrise.En plus de l'intégrale des sonates, Lederer prend également le lecteur à travers les plus significatifs des variations. Le plus grand est le Diabelli, décollage monumentale de Beethoven sur un thème banal, mais plus trois ensembles, les 32 Variations en ut mineur, les Variations sur un thème original, op. 34, et le 'Eroica' Variations, op. 35, sont également de la plus haute qualité. Et les Bagatelles, Opp. 33, 119 et 126, sont courts, mais forts des études qui montrent différents aspects de la personnalité musicale de Beethoven. Enfin, Lederer aborde les cinq concertos pour piano en détail, montrant l'influence des modèles sublimes de Mozart dans les trois premiers concertos, avec Beethoven hardiment trouver sa propre voix avec les Concertos aimé quatrième et cinquième. Le livre est livré avec un CD de Naxos performances contenant du pianiste Jeno Jando qui illustrent le texte. / Livre

Maria Callas was almost as famous for her personal life - her jet-setting her staggering weight loss her tigress-like temperament - as she was for her singing.Of Greek parentage the New York-born internationally famous Callas was the most influential soprano of the 20th century reviving a school of singing - bel canto - that had been forgotten for 75 years. Unlike most of her generation of sopranos she was a superb actress both vocally and physically: her voice encompassed many colours and she embodied each character she portrayed. After seeing or hearing her in a role it was said it was difficult to imagine another singer attempting it so fierce was herindividual stamp. Her status went beyond cult; her triumphs and failures appeared on the front page of newspapers all over the world.This profusely illustrated musical biography covers Callas's life and career. A final third of the book analyzes the tracks on the two CDs describing what made Callas unique what made Callas Callas. Listen for yourselves to La Divina ('the divine one') as the Italians dubbed her and be amazed.