Music Books

A handy reference guide for instrumental and singing teachers. It provides practical answers to real issues faced in a modern teaching environment. It also includes helpful checklists, top tips, and factsheets.

Includes 20 songs and activities for children aged 0-5 years. This title covers topics such as the body, weather and animals. Designed to stimulated language development, creativity, co-ordination, memory, rhythmic responses and concentration, it is suitable for parents to use at home and for pre-schools, nurseries, creches and pre-natal classes.

This guide should be of interest to parents whose children study, or are considering studying an instrument, or taking music lessons. It should also be of use to music teachers.

Showcases professional work in the arena of jazz theory. Among the contributors are scholars of jazz theory as well as musicians, including four of the founding members of the jazz section of the Society for Music Theory.

An optional playalong CD accompanies this popular trumpet tutor. As well as enabling the pupil to hear how the pieces sound, the CD is invaluable for ensemble experience, and offers all the fun of playing with an accompaniment. Ideal for home practice and concerts alike.

The book will include 12 practical projects, with step by step instructions and photographs. There are also sections on choosing appropriate materials, and design and decoration techniques. The book encourages children to develop their own ideas, as well as offering tried and tested design and technology techniques which are guaranteed to work.

This volume challenges readers to think about what music means in contemporary society, and how music education can remain culturally relevant in the new millennium. * A collection of thought-provoking philosophical perspectives on music education.

This book helps children enjoy greater success in other content areas as they learn about rhythm and chants, music, instruments, art, ring games, and story projects.

A biography of Hoagy Carmichael, composer of classic American songs such as "Georgia on My Mind", "Rockin' Chair", "Skylark", "Lazybones", and "Star Dust". The book follows Carmichael from his roaring-20s Indiana youth to Hollywood legend.

Learn to play the violin with popular pieces - lessons and sheet music for beginners

This is a heroic children's musical written by Alan Ayckbourn, a leading children's playwright.

The Jazz Itineraries series, a new format based on Ken Vail's successful Jazz Diaries, charts the careers of famous jazz musicians, listing club and concert appearances with details of recording sessions and movie appearances. Copiously illustrated with contemporary photographs, newspaper extracts, record and performance reviews, ads and posters, the series provides a fascinating insight into the lives of the greatest jazz musicians of our times. No.1 in the series, Dizzy Gillespie: The Bebop Years 1937d1952, chronicles Dizzy_s life from his early struggles, through the birth of bebop, the demise of his first big band, up to his departure for France in 1952.

Learn to play cornet, tenor horn, trombone, baritone, euphonium or tuba with popular pieces - lessons and sheet music for beginners

The Oxford History of English Music, Volume 2 takes the story of English Music from c.1715 to the present day, following on from Volume 1, published in 1991. It discusses not only the music of major composers but that of many lesser figures, together with folk music, light and popular music, and the social and historical background.

This songbook for children brings together East African songs from vast and diverse folk heritages. It includes children's play, dance and story songs, and some patriotic and party songs, from the ethnic or language groups of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, as well as some songs from related ethnic groups in regions of Burundi, the DRC, Malawi and Rwanda. The songs bear witness to centuries of African life; and their transcription aims to make music accessible to children from their own cultural traditions. The songbook incorporates the musical scores and song texts, translations of the African texts, notes on the structure of the music, and suggestions of story-telling, poetry, drama, art or dance which teachers or other adults may introduce to bring the songs alive and use them creatively, and to allow children to participate fully in their performance.

Music''s place in the National Curriculum in England and Wales is now firmly established. This book is a guide to help all primary teachers, and those with a co-ordinating role who support them, develop music in their classrooms. it looks at children''s learning in music, in the context of current thinking on primary education and the developments of primary music since 1991. There are well-researched chapters on promoting children''s musical composition and the ways in which music can be related to the whole primary curriculum. With a wealth of straightforward, practical ideas, a revised chapter on assesment and a new chapter on the role of the music co-ordinator, this new edition of Teachin Music in the Primary School will be indispensable reading for all primary teachers, primary music co-ordinators and those running music courses in teacher education at undergraduate, postgraduate or INSET levels.The editors are both at Bath Spa University College, where Joanna Glover is a Senior Lecturer in Music Education and Stephen Ward is Head of Department of Primary Education in the Faculty of Education and Human Sciences.

This reader examines the recent changes in music education and then goes on to examine a range of issues linked to the teaching and learning music in the classroom.

Peer through the die-cut windows in each page of this interactive book to find out who is playing what. Anyone can be the Music Man in this joyful adaptation of the classic nursery song, and everyone can join in making music together!

Peer through the die-cut windows in each page of this interactive book to find out who is playing what. Anyone can be the Music Man in this joyful adaptation of the classic nursery song, and everyone can join in making music together!

Arranged by subject area and topics within disciplines, the annotations describe the works and provide information on format and media, musical arrangement, individual song titles (for recorded material), and grade appropriateness in addition to standard bibliographic information.