Rounds For Children

Collection of Upbeat Rounds for Classroom and Performance-It's time to get a round to it! Experience part-singing fun your students will want to perform again and again. This rockin' collection of 16 rounds features some familiar and some brand new rounds crafted with unique pianoaccompaniments that bring the arrangements to life. Six of the rounds come in an expanded format with a separate CD recording of full performance and accompaniment tracks for easy programming. The remaining ten rounds offeradditional simple Orff accompaniments and riser choreography for many classroom and performance opportunities. All this and reproducible singer pages are featured in the Teacher book. For extra value the Classroom Kit includesbook and CD. Recorded rounds include: A Ram Sam Sam Rockin' a Round Row Your Boat Songs of the Seasons Sunshine White Coral Bells. Non-Recorded Rounds include: Autumn Blessings By the Singing Water FrogMusic Make New Friends Music Alone Shall Live Now Is the Time to Sing Peace Round Sing Lullaby Spring Thing We'll Get a Round to It. Available separately: Teacher Edition (with reproducible singer pages) Performance/Accompaniment CD Classroom Kit (Teacher and P/A CD). Suggested for grades 3-6.

Toddlers and young children love to sing and dance classic nursery rhymes and songs. This activity strengthens bonds with family, encourages brain development and musicality, and most importantly, it's fun! This beautiful keepsake collection of over 100 classic nursery rhymes, playground songs, activity tunes, and memory rhymes ensures that all those bases are covered for parents, teachers, and their kids. Carefully arranged for piano to play and sing with toddlers and young children, each song also includes guitar and ukulele chords for easy strum-and-sing performance. The book features a 'Genre Index' that breaks the titles down into song types and categories---especially useful for educators. Finally, an 'About the Songs' section rounds out the collection with a brief history of all the tunes, and, to demonstrate what the songs should sound like, professional MP3 recordings of every song can be downloaded from alfred.com with purchase. / Piano/Vocal/Guitare (PVG)

A set of easy rounds for adults and/or children designed to provide a complete set of introits responses and benedictions for a church service. (Though they need not all be done at the same service.)

Junior Voiceworks at Christmas is a wonderful collection of 40 seasonal songs for children ranging from rounds to raps and from folk pieces to well-known carols in sparkling new arrangements. With excellent practical advice and rehearsal notes and an accompanying CD this volume meets the needs of all schools and choral groups for this special time of year.

Here is a collection of 2-Part a cappella arrangements that really work for the young choir. These 24 delightful songs can help build the young singer's sight-reading skills improve intonation and choral tone and developexpressive singing. The songs range in difficulty from easy to challenging and are composed in several different styles including folk songs spirituals rounds and canons holiday songs and original pieces. The Teacher'sEdition offers comprehensive suggestions including tips for adapting the songs to a Kodály curriculum or adding Orff instruments. Ideal for classroom or concert!

Junior Voiceworks 2 is a second dazzling collection of songs for all choirs at or around KS2 level. The songs are presented in the familiar and highly practical Voiceworks format with accessible music pages and accompanying notes for the teacher or leader. There's a great range of songs in many styles and moods to suit all occasions and all types of choirs including folk songs jazz songs a rap a rock song rounds and a counting song! The repertoire includes unison songs and songs in several parts. For the teachers the photocopiable pages make rehearsal and performance a breeze and a complete lesson or rehearsal plan is included witheach song including warm-ups and constructive tips. There are also 2 CDs containing quality performances of all the songs by the Berkshire Girls Choir and backing tracks for a number of songs. The piano accompaniments are playable and include guitar parts. This all adds up to a fabulous singing resource that will inspire choirs everywhere!

The complete singing resource for primary schools-Key Stage 1 (ages 5 to 7) Following from the huge success of Singing Sherlock 1 and 2 this volume and its companion book Singing Sherlock 4 provide more exciting repertoire and ideas for primary singing. As with the other books this gives enjoyable and structured ways to teach music concepts and vocal skills with no prior musical knowledge or music-reading skills required! - it is aimed at the non-specialist music teacher as well as the specialist. Singing Sherlock 3 includes tried and tested songs which will inspire good singing in schools and youth choirs - and CDs of performance and backing tracks. Aligned to therequirements of Key Stage 1 (ages 5 to 7) it features 'Sherlock in Concert' - show-stopping concert pieces to round off a period of study.ContentsSINGING SHERLOCK INVESTIGATES02 Do your groundwork03 How you teach the song is really important!WARM UPS06 Jimbo Jambo07 Wesley Bear08 Sherlock’s A Real Cool ChapSECTION 1 VOICE GYM AND TUNE-UP!10 Sherlock’s clues to pulse and rhythm11 Circle Game: Toes a-Twinklin’12 Circle Game: First Couple Up13 Eat Me Song14 Everybody Sillybody Song15 The Little Pigs Jive16 The Nursery Rhyme Rap17 Kapulu Kane18 Traffic LightsSECTION 2 TUNE IN!20 Sherlock’s clues on how to find the singing voice21 Animals Live in the Forest22 Voice Stretch Song23 Did You Feed My Cow?24 The Noisy House25 Sherlock’s Sports Day26 Calico is a Charming Cat27 Callers28 The FairgroundSECTION 3 SING THE STORY30 Wannabe31 Brian32 Crop Eating Crows33 When I Was Small34 Make Friends Around the World35 My Birthday Party36 The Honey Bee37 Colours of My WorldSECTION 4 SHERLOCK IN CONCERT39 I’m a Giraffe40 Tiger Tango41 Dolphin Song43 Gepetto made a Puppet44 Pinocchio45 Down Down to the Bottom of the Sea

Chaconne. Par LERDAHL FRED. Chaconne (2016), for string quartet, was commissioned by the Daedalus Quartet to celebrate its 15th anniversary. The commission was supported by New Music USA, made possible by annual program support and/or endowment gifts from Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Helen F. Whitaker Fund, and Aaron Copland Fund for Music. My music has a substantial history with Daedalus. I composed the Third String Quartet (2008) for them, and subsequently they performed my three string quartets on several occasions and recorded them brilliantly on Bridge Records (Bridge 9352: Music of Fred Lerdahl, vol. 3). Chaconne is in one movement lasting 19 minutes. It is effectively my fourth string quartet. Quartets 1-3 form a unified cycle lasting 70 minutes. When I finished the cycle, I thought I would never write again for the medium; yet I could not resist the opportunity of working again with Daedalus. The issue was how to compose another string quartet unrelated to the earlier cycle. The solution came from my solo cello piece There and Back Again (2010), which was based on a four-bar variation pattern from a 17th-century chaconne. Unlike the asymmetrical phrases and expanding variations of much of my music, the chaconne form requires symmetrical phrases and strictly periodic variations. I wished to work again with these symmetries but on a larger scale. Chaconne also differs in character and expression from the three-quartet cycle. The cycle is inward and intense, a kind of psychological excavation. Chaconne is, for the most part, transparent and playful. Many of its textures emerge from little canons, not completely unlike the rounds that children sing. Any composer who writes in chaconne form (one thinks above all of the last movement of Bach’s D minor violin partita and the finale of Brahms’s Fourth Symphony) is confronted with the challenge of how to create a larger form out of a constantly repeating pattern. My Chaconne grows from paired antecedent-consequent phrases, each variation lasting eight bars. The 50 variations group into three large rotations, forming three arcs of tension and relaxation, with subtle parallel connections across the rotations. Notwithstanding my attraction to chaconne form, I purposefully disguised its symmetries and periodicities in order to build an overall dramatic shape. Fred Lerdahl/ Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes

Irresistable new tunes for beginner violinists composed and arranged by one of the UK's leading string teachers and authors Mary Cohen creator of a wide range of imaginative teaching publications including Superstart. Bags of Tunes is packed with material on styles children will love including nursery rhymes rounds folk and popular songs as well as plenty of original pieces. The pieces are gently progressive and are all based around the first finger pattern. They are ideal for consolidation work for using alongside any method or tutor and are enjoyable sight-reading practice.

2004 Edition-Recorder From The Beginning: Pupil's Book 1 (2004 Edition) is the full-colour revised edition of John Pitts' best-selling recorder course. The eight extra pages in Book 1 have allowed for somenew tunes and rounds whilst retaining the well-known favourites that have helped to make the scheme such an enduring success.This is the book we all learned from as children and is still successfully teaching today'syouth how to play the Recorder.Composer and Author John Pitts tells us about his Recorder From The Beginning series of Recorder books:

Bags Of Tunes For Viola is packed with material on styles children will love including nursery rhymes rounds folk and popular songs as well as plenty of original pieces. The pieces are gently progressive and are all based around the first finger pattern. They are ideal for consolidation work for using alongside any method or tutor and are enjoyable sight-reading practice. Irresistible new tunes for beginner violists composed and arranged by one of the UK's leading string teachers and authors Mary Cohen creator of a wide range of imaginative teaching publications.