Multicultural Collection of Songs Dances and Fun Facts-Take an exciting musical journey of folk song and dance traditions to all corners of the globe. Learn how to do an Israeli circle dance the German Schottische the Brazilian Samba folk dances from Austria Russia and Mexico anAfrican welcome dance and even country line dancing from the U.S.A! Read about these rich cultures in engaging student articles written at an age-appropriate level and experience their music through folk songs and easy-to-learndance steps that are kid-friendly. The value-packed Book/CD format features reproducible articles and songsheets with lyric translations exceptional standards-based lesson plans complete with lyric pronunciations assessment andextension activities piano/vocal arrangements with choreography and a performance/accompaniment CD recording. There are even recorded pronunciation guides on the CD. And there's more! A DVD is also available (separately or inthe classroom kit) with visual instruction for each dance as demonstrated by John Jacobson and a group of young students. We've got a lot of miles to cover so let's get started! Available: Book/CD DVD Classroom Kit (Book/CD DVD). Suggested for Grades 3-6.

A collection of 140 traditional and contemporary melodies set to lyrics excerpted from the Psalms. Melody line chords Hebrew texts transliterations and translations. Culled from many Tara Publication editions this collection features traditional Hassidic Israeli Sephardic and popular Yeshiva melodies.

The soaring soprano solo adds drama to this work based on Israeli poet Jacob Fishman's poem of the oil that once gave light and hope in times of battle now celebrated in the eight nights of Chanukah. Duration: ca. 3:10.

Volume 2-Continues with more Israeli love songs liturgical standards like the moving 'Bilvavi' 'L'chi Lach' by Debbie Friedman and several Yiddish and Ladino selections.

How beautiful-This energetic Israeli folksong features the Isaiah text How beautiful are upon the mountains the feet of the messenger of good tidings: of salvation and peace. Available: SATB 2-Part 3-Part Mixed. Performance Time: Approx. 1:45.

inspiring confidence to play by touch-Richard Smith's Don't LOOK At The Keys! teaches students how to play by touch feeling their way around the keyboard using various 'signposts' whilst keeping their eyes on the music. Designed to make sight reading easier and more effective the books in this innovative series contain a progressive set of imaginative pieces to take students and teachers step by step through the technique. This is not just another sight reading book. Don't LOOK At The Keys! contains actual practice pieces as well as instructions that demonstrate how toplay Piano by touch. It instructs and develops the skill and confidence to look at the music instead of the hands and helps those students who commit pieces to memory or play by ear then wonder where to look while playing. 'Don't LOOK At The Keys!' is a progressive series in three parts teaching piano keyboard geography by touch in an accessible enjoyable way making sight reading easier and more effective. The pieces in Book 2 are all within an octave spread in each hand to demonstrate progress and inspire confidence following the five finger range in Book 1. To get started there is one page of notes for teachers and students followed by a varied selection of 14 pieces; titles such as 'It Only Took A Minuet' 'Hot Israeli Nights' the boogie woogie pieces 'Lazy' and 'Toe Tapper' as well as 'Flat Footed Flip Flop Waltz' - inspirational and great fun!

Book/2-CD Pack-This package presents sheet music to 30 of the most popular Jewish songs (Hasidic Israeli Yiddish Holiday). The accompanying CDs include full orchestrations of each song as well as tracks with the melody removed so that you cansing or play-along with the band!

How Beautiful-This energetic Israeli folksong features the Isaiah text How beautiful are upon the mountains the feet of the messenger of good tidings: of salvation and peace. Available: SATB 2-Part 3-Part Mixed. Performance Time: Approx. 1:45.

This is a wonderful collection of Klezmer music inspired by the Jewish dances and songs of the Klezmorim from Eastern Europe: from the lyrical Hora to the fast compelling Frielach. Also audible is the influence of more recent Israeli folk music a la Giora Fiedman.

As heard in the recent docudrama film by Steven Spielberg John Williams' treatment of the Israeli national anthem gives a special reverence and power to this beloved hymn. This is the authentic edition as played in the film.(Includes optional parts for flute oboe clarinet and three horns)

This newly published all-in-one edition features the best of Israeli Yiddish Hassidic Sephardic Ladino Shabbat and Holiday music. It includes music chords texts annotations transliterations translations and children'ssong. The companion CD contains selections by well-known artists and ensembles including the London Festival Orchestra Safam Judy Frankel Leon Lissek and others. Over 100 songs in all – indispensible for all who treasureJewish culture!

Cantata for string orchestra and chorus.Triptych represents the concatenation and re-orchestration of two extant works. Movement I was commissioned with funds from The RVW Trust for the inaugural concert of the Choir of London conducted by Jeremy Summerly in Christ Church Spitalfields on 18th December 2004; the work premièred as Threnody was subsequently toured by the Choir to Jerusalem and the West Bank from 19th-26th December 2004. Movements II and III commissioned by Portsmouth Grammar School with financial support from the PRS Foundation were premièred as And There Was a Great Calm in a contiguous version for lower strings and upper voices by thePortsmouth Grammar School Chamber Choir and the London Mozart Players in a concert at Portsmouth Anglican Cathedral on 13th November 2005 conducted by Nicolae Moldoveanu. The title of this latter section is taken from Thomas Hardy’s poem of the same name written at the signing of the Armistice on 11th November 1918; a couplet from which is set in a moment of tranquillity in the final movement.Relatively new to living in New York I am much more aware of the independent vibrant cultural plurality that exists today; it’s probably the single most dazzling facet of the City and is largely responsible for the infamous ‘edginess’ that pervades daily life there. With this in mind I set to work on Threnody (movement I here) in 2004; I wanted to write something that was relevant to the Israeli/Palestinian issue without losing that City ‘edge’. The texts in English are excerpted from a variety of sources: William Penn William Blake the Psalms of David and Muhammad Rajab Al-Bayoumi an Egyptian poet of the early twentieth-century. Fast and rhythmically influenced by the music of North Africa in its syncopations this movement was the first composition that evolved entirely from my New York perspective.From the moment that the commission for And There Was a Great Calm (movements II & III here) was offered I knew the piece I was

Who Will Give Me Wings-This beautiful Israeli song is presented here in a masterful setting by Audrey Snyder unfolding in a rich and sonorous choral tapestry. Optional violin oboe or other melody instrument. Available: SATB SAB 2-Part. Performance Time: Approx. 3:00.