The Harmonic Approach. Beginning where the previous book finished, the acclaimed tutor Barry Finnerty has created yet another classic Serious Jazz Book for jazz soloists of all instruments. Barry Finnerty has worked as a recording artist with jazz legends like Miles Davis, The Brecker Brothers and the Crusaders. Taking the musical talents of virtuosi like these as his inspiration, he explains the key to better improvisation through a melodic approach to chord changes, how they interact and how they are used in context. Finnerty describes the possible uses and harmonic functions of a single note, not just to enhance your playing ability, but to show you the possibilities inherent in a different, harmonic approach to looking at particular notes. He also goes into detail on how to achieve melodic command of all the possible extensions and alterations of chords, as well as variations on common chord progressions. The Serious Jazz Book 2 will also help you effectively and practically apply the harmonic knowledge that you learned in the first volume. Not only this, but Finnerty features a great number of melodic examples that use all the chords and progressions previously learned. In this way, Finnerty expands upon and develops his previous edition to create an acclaimed guide to playing Serious Jazz as a solo musician

Description Suitable for young beginners, this book by S. J. Townshend, provides short exercises in the elementary rudiments of music including questions on clefs and staves, notes and values, accidentals, rests, tones and semitones, introduction to major scales, key signatures, tonic triads, time-signatures and musical terms.

Par BRYANT ANN. This book is ideal for primary teachers with little or no experience of teaching music. It will also offer fresh ideas and inspiration to the most experienced music specialists. 'Teaching Foundation Music' is the first of Ann Bryant's music work schemes for primary teachers. The book includes lots of songs and rhymes with flexible lesson plans built around them as well as a CD of performance and accompaniment tracks to accommodate teachers with limited keyboard skills. This scheme offers guidance for those with no formal musical training and will build the confidence of all primary level teachers. The lesson plans are completely flexible and can accommodate mixed age and mixed ability groups, making them perfect for schools with more than one intake. Any teacher will benefit from Ann's broad experience and imaginative ideas and Children will love getting involved and singing the wide range of original songs and rhymes that have been incorporated into this structured and accessible set of lesson plans. Following Ann Bryant's training at the Royal College of music and her postgraduate course in Dalcroze Eurythmics, she has taught music movement and Drama to young people both here in the U.K and in Europe. For the last fifteen years Ann has specialised in Foundation and Key Stage 1, developing a unique and dynamic style of teaching. Author of the award-winning 'Teaching Key Stage 1 Music' (best New Music Product - Music Industry Associations Awards 2002), she has also established a highly successful career as a children's author./ Méthode / Formation Musicale

In Prends Ton Tempo Sophie Carre has included all of the concepts that need to be acquired during the first years of music studies. Concepts such as reading intervals sol and fa keys and reading different rhythms. These theoretical concepts are helpfully contextualised by a number of original songs and rhymes as well as by short musical segments. All of the essential concepts of learning to play music are featured in Prends Ton Tempo such as the different notes intervals and even basic arpeggios. Sophie Carre's skill in writing such an effective beginner's book means she intersperses the lessons withreal music enabling you to develop your musicality as well as your theoretical knowledge.

Cahier 4 Piano-Conceived for Piano beginners who have already been introduced to music reading  Le Voyage Magique - Level 4 Traveller follows up on Piano Discoveries - Level 3 A & B Adventurer. Seventh of a series of eight it familiarises the young Pianist to more complex melodies and rhythms to minor chords and minor tonalities and to the techniques of playing. This volume uses the same characters as the previous books who evolve through new illustrations to guide the young pianists. Le Voyage Magique is the translation and adaptation by Stéphane Blet of the American series Piano Discoveries by JanetVogt and Leon Bates. The pedagogy of this book has been studied to be quite close to the language of children in order to develop their interest and concentration. A CD is provided to accompany the player while learning with Le Voyage Magique offering some small melodic pieces to develop a musical ear. Janet Vogt is an American Pianist professor at the College-Conservatory of Music. She also composed pieces for Keyboards for Choirs and some pop music. Leon Bates (born 1949) is a renowned American Pianist who performed with the New York Symphony the Cleveland Symphony and many others. He is also a professor and participated to the conception of this method. Stéphane Blet is an international Solo Pianist who decided to focus on the composition of pieces and on teaching. He is currently professor in the École Normale de Musique “Alfred Cortot”.

Learning to read music is much like learning a language. There are three basic elements: listening, reading, and writing. This well-organized book provides step-by-step sequential lessons for developing these skills. Rhythm, note, and interval concepts are taught in the following way: first, hear and echo a short musical example - second, read and perform a notated exercise - and third, notate musical phrases as demonstrated on the CD. Worksheet-style student pages are included as reproducible PDFs. Ten-minute activities for teaching or assessment, recommended for 4th through 9th grade ensembles or music classes. / Tout Instrument

En clé de sol et fa mélangées sans accompagnement de piano-Jeanine Rueff (1922-1999) was a French composer and music educator. Her two combined specialisms have created accomplished studies including Interval Studies. These Rueff studies focus on a variety of intervals including minor major diminished augmented perfect and chromatic. With exercises written in both the treble and bass clefs Interval Studies is very accessible and ideal for all instrumentalists!

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.

Studies for Rhythm 1 - Etüden zum Rhythmus-Georges Dandelot (1895-1975) who was a pupil of Widor Roussel and Dukas achieved posterity only through his educational manuals which seem to enjoy permanent success. Some may regret the fact that his compositions have fallen into oblivion but nobody can deny his tremend?ous talent for musical instruction. When it was published in 1935 the five-volume ?tude Du Rythme filled a glaring gap: for the first time a progressive method – graduated with minute care – set out to inculcate pupils with this “vital element” of all music. Dedicated to the simplest rhythms that are “the basis of all tofollow” the first volume now comes with a valuable addition: an audio version attached to the score in the form of a download card enabling budding musicians to monitor for themselves whether they have correctly reproduced the rhythms of the exercises. Of course this recording can also be used to carry out rhythm dictations – modern-day technology at the service of a timeless method.

The last of the three?Solfege Des Solfeges books this is an excellent set of exercises tailored towards the Solfege method of sight-singing and remains a popular method for teaching aural musicianship to beginner singers. First published in 1891 this edition has been translated into English by J.H. Cornell. Adolphe-Leopold Danhauser (1835-1896) was a French musician composer and pedagogue. His name was often Germanised to Dannhäuser. Having been appointed as Professor of Solfeggio at the Paris Conservatory he is best known for his pedagogical works such as the 1878 text book Théorie de la Musique but also composedseveral operas and other choral pieces.