An All-School Holiday Revue for Young Voices-Here's the ultimate in ?reality? programming! Thanks to the exploits of a brave and curious group of young people you'll get a first-hand look at all the famous characters that make Christmas dreams come true: Santa'swell-trained volunteer reindeer corps the overworked elves snowmen who dream of a tropical vacation what Mrs. Claus really does on Christmas Eve and the true spirit of the season Santa Claus himself! This 40-minute musical isideal for young performers and will be a joy to present with clever dialog John Jacobson's choreography and staging suggestions and the professionally-produced ShowTrax CD.Available: Teacher's Manual Singer's 5-Pak Preview CD and ShowTrax CD. Performance Time: 40 minutes. For Gr. 4-8.

Seasonal Movement and Activity Songs for Kids-From the Hop 'Til You Drop Series comes this collection of 12 seasonal 'get up and go' songs to get your whole body ready to make music all year long! Originally developed for John Jacobson's MUSIC EXPRESS magazine thisall-in-one collection comes complete with piano/vocal arrangements choreography reproducible lyric sheets and helpful lesson plans and performance tips. Use this collection as a warmup routine and your students will be with youfrom the very first note! Available: Song Collection (with reproducible lyric sheets) and Performance/Accompaniment CD. For Gr. K-3.

A novel approach to jazz improvisation with 12 tones by the saxophonist John O´Gallagher. The author is an active member of the New York avant-garde scene and a popular workshop lecturer. His new method combines jazz harmonies and twelve-note melodies into an exciting new tonal language. The edition is completed by numerous exercises for all instruments. / Tout Instrument

Treble Clef Edition-The Treble Clef Edition of Exercises and Etudes for the Jazz Instrumentalist is a collection of original pieces by the master Trombonist and composer J.J. Johnson. Designed as study material and playable by any Treble Celf instrument these pieces run the gamut of the jazz experience featuring common and uncommon time signatures and keys and styles from ballads to funk. They are progressively graded so that both beginners and professionals will be challenged by the demands of this wonderful music. A Bass clef edition is also available.

A Holiday Musical for Young Voices-The welcome mat is out and everyone is invited! From candles burning and carolers singing to a fifteen foot buffet and jingle bells ringing share the traditions of the season with this charming 15-minute holiday musical forprimary grades. Five original songs and clever rhyming narration allow for easy preparation and limited rehearsal time. The Teacher's Manual features full piano/vocal arrangements narration and staging suggestions and the handyReproducible Pak comes complete with vocal lines lyric sheets and narration ... everything your ?stars on stage? need to present a wonderful show for family and friends. Use the professionally produced orchestrationby John Higgins on the performance/accompaniment CD for extra seasonal sparkle! Receive all three components in the handy Classroom Kit for dollar-stretching value.Performance Time: 15 minutes. For Gr. K-4.

A Manual of Techniques and Possibilities for the Adventurous Improvising Musician. Par KANE DAVID. Sure - everybody has an opinion on how to play ?outside?. But until now, no one has made an in-depth exploration of the commonalities and differences in how the greatest jazz players on the planet have incorporated their inspiring, harmony defying techniques. With Playing Outside the Chord, David Kane invokes a thoughtfully curated selection of transcribed phrases that take the reader beyond the simple mechanics of what is being played and offer revelatory insights into what the players are (or might be) thinking when they play it. It?s a daunting, seemingly impossible objective; yet here it is, beautifully examined, notated, and explained in an accessible way that every musician can understand. 'This book is a treasure trove, full of important information on chromaticism and its usage. From Bach to Schoenberg, Dave covers a lot of ground and the book is very well organized. He specifically addresses the melodic aspect of improvisation, including lines and phrases, rather than the usual emphasis on harmony. What's special is that he explores the ?feeling? and overall effect of the lines on the listener. This book is all you need as a working guide towards understanding the implications of 20th century jazz and classical music.? -David Liebman LEVEL-UP!!! If you?re feeling uninspired, stuck, or limited by your current play, this is the perfect book to help you break those chains, stimulate your creativity, and take your playing and composing in compelling new directions. Enthusiastically endorsed by modern jazz luminaries such as David Liebman and Richie Beirach, Playing Outside the Chord is devoted to melodic phrasing that transcends conventional chord/scale relationships. This exciting technique incorporating the theory and practice of horizontal playing and extended tonality pioneered by jazz titans such as Michael Brecker, Cory Henry, John Scofield, Brad Meldhau, and Jacob Collier is a vital component of the modern jazz performance and improvisation toolbox. Featuring over 200 musical examples gleaned from classic solos, plus 15 extensive transcriptions of legendary performances, this book is skillfully designed to clue you in on the theoretical basis of ?outside? play as practiced by these trail-blazing musicians. It systematically describes each type of technique used, including timing and source considerations, and by doing so unlocks a wealth of modern ideas that offer rich possibilities for the creative improviser. Kane?s insightful treatise on outside playing represents an important expansion of the ideas available to the dedicated student of improvisation. / Date parution : 2022-04-01/ Etude / Tout Instrument

Les Essentiels De La Musique. Par LE PADAN MIKAEL. 21 leçons pour découvrir, comprendre et maîtriser le rythme à travers une approche simple, efficace et progressive. Chaque leçon relie un rythme aux oeuvres phares du répertoire. On y trouve des exercices de lecture pour s'entraîner, des activités d'écoutes pour reconnaître un rythme, un petit mémento, ainsi que des encadrés explicatifs pour retenir l'essentiel. Au-delà des exercices de lecture, l'ouvrage s'appuie sur 88 extraits d'oeuvres accessibles en Playlist, de Thoinot Arbeau à Philip Glass, en passant par John Lennon et Radiohead. Un ouvrage idéal pour les premières années afin de découvrir et d'assimiler l'essentiel du rythme./ Méthode / Formation Musicale

A Comprehensive And Practical Guide-Instrumental Jazz Arranging consists of a systematic presentation of the essential techniques and materials of jazz arranging. Authors Mike Tomaro and John Wilson draw upon 50 years of combined teaching experience to bring you a book that addresses all of the basic needs for beginning arrangers.Topics include counterpoint/linear writing jazz harmony compositional techniques and orchestration. All topics serve to address issues concerned with true arranging in great detail. The book may be used in both individual and classroom instructional situations.The accompanying CDs - 170 tracks in all! - include many of the examples in the book plus templates forassignments formatted for Finale®.

Par BERKMAN DAVID. The definitive book on how to create beautiful jazz harmonies for any melody. Starting from the most basic harmonic situations and progressing to contemporary jazz harmony, this book is a serious study of the fundamentals of jazz harmony. It will help you to uncover the best choices for chords to accompany any melody, to better understand and create the \'right\' chord progressions to standard tunes, to re-harmonize songs freely in the manner of great jazz artists like Hank Jones, Thelonious Monk, Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans, Chick Corea, Brad Mehldau, Herbie Hancock, Duke Ellington, Gil Evans, Thad Jones, Joe Pass, Jim Hall and John Scofield. Topics covered include: basic functional harmony, diatonic substitutes, secondary dominants, passing chords, diminished harmony, tritone substitutes, non-functional approaches to harmonizing melodies including quartal harmony, color chords, harmonizing basslines, pedals, slash chords, unavailable tensions and more. Includes 2 CDs of the author playing many of the written examples in the 206-page book. / Methods

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.

Whether you're a beginner an amateur a professional or a teacher you will find this book an excellent means of continuing your musical journey. This is a step-by-step guide to help you develop essential skills for improvisation. The concepts presented are first demonstrated over the 12-bar blues progression: in later chapters the ideas are realized over rhythm changes and in original compisitions based on the chord progressions of jazz standards. Topics include: scales and modes - chords and riffs - transposition - musical quotation - phrasing and articulation.