The Classical Book Vol. 1

The Student Activity Books are fun-filled educational companions to the Succeeding with the Masters repertoire collections - an ideal way for your students to explore the world of the master composers. This Student Activity Book is full of enjoyable activities that will help your students learn about the master composers of the Classical Era. The stories games puzzles and activities for listening drawing and writing are a time-effective way to engage students in the lives and music of the great composers. A supplementary Teacher's Handbook provides the answers to the student activitities as well as some additional ideas for group activities. This Student ActivityBook is intended for use with the Succeeding with the Masters Classical Era Volume One Performance Book.

Volume 3 is perfect for jazz ensemble directors looking for one book to keep their students engaged and progressing all year long, as well as any musician interested in Sher Music's series of world-famous fake books. At over 200 pages, THE REAL EASY BOOK - VOL.3 comes in C, Bb, Eb and bass clef versions. It features 5-10 tunes from each historical era of jazz: Trad Jazz, The Swing Era, Classic Bebop, West Coast Jazz, The Blue Note Era, Contemporary Jazz, ''Groove'' Jazz, Brazilian Jazz and Afro-Cuban Jazz. The wide variety of styles included means that every jazz combo will be able to find exactly the material that fits their needs.Difficulty ranges from very simple blues, like Charlie Parker's ''Now's The Time'' to deep, but still playable, contemporary tunes, like Mike Stern's ''These Times.'' Also featured are some great beginning trad jazz arrangements of ''Bill Bailey'' and ''Alexander's Ragtime Band'', including separate clarinet and trombone obligato parts to get that authentic Dixieland feeling!In addition to the tunes and educational material, there are also fun and informative introductory texts for each section. These short histories of each era of jazz introduce both the flavor of the era, and a discussion of the musical innovations that each one brought to the evolution of jazz.The end result is a multi-dimensional teaching tool that will keep band directors and their students smiling all year long! / Instruments En Bb

The Succeeding with the Masters Teacher's Handbook Classical Era Volume One provides the answers to all of the games maps puzzles stories and listening activities that appear in the corresponding Student Activity Book. Also some additional ideas and suggestions for group activities are given. You will be delighted when you see the variety of fun and interesting information provided in this book.

Get yourself — or your beginning jazz combo — sounding good right away with the first fake book ever designed for the beginning improviser.This book contains: Easy, but classic jazz tunes to give thestudent a good start in learning the jazz repertoire. Sample Piano voicings, Guitar chord diagrams, sample Bass lines and useful scales for improvisation included with each tune, for easy reference. Each song willsound good played in rock, funk or Latin styles, as well as swing. Perfect for individual students of all ages, as well as jazz combos.With The Real Easy Book Volume 1 you'll learntheeasiest tunes from Horace Silver, Eddie Harris, Freddie Hubbard, Red Garland, Cannonball Adderley, Sonny Rollins, Cedar Walton, Wes Montgomery and more.Bags' GrooveBig BerthaBlue SevenBlues By FiveBlues In The ClosetCold Duck TimeContemplationDoxyEdward LeeEquinoxFreedom Jazz DanceGingerbread BoyGroove MerchantJive SambaJo Jo CalypsoKiller JoeListen HereLittle SunflowerMercy, Mercy, MercyMidnight WaltzMr. P.C.One For Daddy-ORed's Good GrooveRevelationRoad SongShort StuffShoshanaSir JohnSister SadieSo Danco SambaSong For My FatherSonnymoon For TwoSt. James InfirmarySt. ThomasStraight LifeTenor MadnessTrail DustWhen The Saints Go Marching InWork SongYardbird SuiteZ's Blues / Instrument en mib / Sher Music

The American Song Book contains beautiful reproductions of original sheet music of the Tin Pan Alley Era. This book places these songs in historical context and provides fascinating and amusing backgrounds to the songs. Based on original archival research. The American Song Book Volume I: The Tin Pan Alley Era is the first in a projected five-volume series of books that will reprint original sheet music including covers of songs that constitute the enduring standards of Irving Berlin Jerome Kern the Gershwins and other lyricists and composers of what has been called the 'Golden Age' of American popular music. These songs havedone what popular songs are not supposed to do-stayed popular. They have been reinterpreted year after year generation after generation by jazz artists such as Charlie Parker and Art Tatum Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong. In the 1950s Frank Sinatra began recording albums of these standards and was soon followed by such singers as Tony Bennet Doris Day Willie Nelson and Linda Ronstadt. In more recent years these songs have been reinterpreted by Rod Stewart Harry Connick Jr. Carly Simon Lady GaGa K.D. Laing Paul McCartney and most recently Bob Dylan. As such these songs constitute the closest thing America has to a repertory of enduring classical music. In addition to reprinting the sheet music for these classic songs authors Philip Furia and Laurie Patterson place these songs in historical context with essays about the sheet-music publishing industry known as Tin Pan Alley the emergence of American musical comedy on Broadway and the 'talkie' revolution that made possible the Hollywood musical. The authors also provide biographical sketches of songwriters performers and impresarios such as Florenz Ziegfeld. In addition they analyze the lyrical and musical artistry of each song and relate anecdotes sometimes amusing sometimes poignant about how the songs were created. The American

In Recital with Classical Themes Volume One Book 1 is devoted to providing the early elementary student with level-appropriate arrangements of famous classical themes. Following the strict pedagogical guidelines set forth in the In Recital series students are given a solid introduction and the necessary exposure to build a strong foundation and appreciation for timeless classical themes. Students will also gain much enjoyment and insight from 'About the Pieces and Composers' and from the complete performance CD included for each piece in the book.