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Aligning Voices : Exercises To Build Choral Musicianship

Build Your City on the Hill : B-flat Trumpet

Build the Body of the Lord/Send Your Spirit, Lord : Guitar

Build God's Kingdom Day by Day : For Choir, Cantor and Assembly with Flute, Hand Drum and Three Octaves Handbells

Teaching Music through Performance in Band: Bundle : Volumes 1-11 books and CDs

Perfect for libraries, schools, and individuals! This best-selling series of books and CDs has quickly become an indispensable resource for music educators searching for the best possible music at all levels. Each book includes analyses of select pieces and insights from national leaders in the field. Recordings by top ensembles make this series truly invaluable. This bundle includes all 11 volumes in the Teaching Music through Performance in Band series plus all corresponding CDs at a specially discounted price. Build your library today!

Music Moves for Piano: Student Book 5

A complete piano method for students K through adult, Music Moves for Piano is the first piano method to apply Edwin E. Gordon’s Music Learning Theory to the teaching of piano. This method is for students of all levels of music aptitude and any age. When music is taught as an aural art, lessons build a foundation for lifelong musical enjoyment and understanding. The progression from “sound to notation” leads to fluent music performance, reading, and writing. Students who use this program will learn to: - Feel rhythm through movement activities and chant rhythm patterns. - Sing songs and tonal patterns to develop pitch sensitivity and a “listening” ear. - Understand the various ingredients of music, such as rhythm, meter, tonality, harmony, style, and form. - Improvise using familiar patterns and songs: transpose, change tonality and meter, create melodic and rhythmic variations, and create accompaniments. - Perform with tension-free technique. Audio files for this book are essential for home study. Download audio files from the website www.musicmovesforpiano.com

Music Moves for Piano: Student Book 1

A complete piano method for students K through adult, Music Moves for Piano is the first piano method to apply Edwin E. Gordon’s Music Learning Theory to the teaching of piano. This method is for students of all levels of music aptitude and any age. When music is taught as an aural art, lessons build a foundation for lifelong musical enjoyment and understanding. The progression from “sound to notation” leads to fluent music performance, reading, and writing. Students who use this program will learn to: - Feel rhythm through movement activities and chant rhythm patterns. - Sing songs and tonal patterns to develop pitch sensitivity and a “listening” ear. - Understand the various ingredients of music, such as rhythm, meter, tonality, harmony, style, and form. - Improvise using familiar patterns and songs: transpose, change tonality and meter, create melodic and rhythmic variations, and create accompaniments. - Perform with tension-free technique. Audio files for this book are essential for home study. Download audio files from the website www.musicmovesforpiano.com

Music Moves for Piano: Student Book 4

A complete piano method for students K through adult, Music Moves for Piano is the first piano method to apply Edwin E. Gordon’s Music Learning Theory to the teaching of piano. This method is for students of all levels of music aptitude and any age. When music is taught as an aural art, lessons build a foundation for lifelong musical enjoyment and understanding. The progression from “sound to notation” leads to fluent music performance, reading, and writing. Students who use this program will learn to: - Feel rhythm through movement activities and chant rhythm patterns. - Sing songs and tonal patterns to develop pitch sensitivity and a “listening” ear. - Understand the various ingredients of music, such as rhythm, meter, tonality, harmony, style, and form. - Improvise using familiar patterns and songs: transpose, change tonality and meter, create melodic and rhythmic variations, and create accompaniments. - Perform with tension-free technique. Audio files for this book are essential for home study. Download audio files from the website www.musicmovesforpiano.com

Music Moves for Piano: Student Book 2

A complete piano method for students K through adult, Music Moves for Piano is the first piano method to apply Edwin E. Gordon’s Music Learning Theory to the teaching of piano. This method is for students of all levels of music aptitude and any age. When music is taught as an aural art, lessons build a foundation for lifelong musical enjoyment and understanding. The progression from “sound to notation” leads to fluent music performance, reading, and writing. Students who use this program will learn to: - Feel rhythm through movement activities and chant rhythm patterns. - Sing songs and tonal patterns to develop pitch sensitivity and a “listening” ear. - Understand the various ingredients of music, such as rhythm, meter, tonality, harmony, style, and form. - Improvise using familiar patterns and songs: transpose, change tonality and meter, create melodic and rhythmic variations, and create accompaniments. - Perform with tension-free technique. Audio files for this book are essential for home study. Download audio files from the website www.musicmovesforpiano.com

Music Moves for Piano: Student Book 3

A complete piano method for students K through adult, Music Moves for Piano is the first piano method to apply Edwin E. Gordon’s Music Learning Theory to the teaching of piano. This method is for students of all levels of music aptitude and any age. When music is taught as an aural art, lessons build a foundation for lifelong musical enjoyment and understanding. The progression from “sound to notation” leads to fluent music performance, reading, and writing. Students who use this program will learn to: - Feel rhythm through movement activities and chant rhythm patterns. - Sing songs and tonal patterns to develop pitch sensitivity and a “listening” ear. - Understand the various ingredients of music, such as rhythm, meter, tonality, harmony, style, and form. - Improvise using familiar patterns and songs: transpose, change tonality and meter, create melodic and rhythmic variations, and create accompaniments. - Perform with tension-free technique. Audio files for this book are essential for home study. Download audio files from the website www.musicmovesforpiano.com

The Choral Warm-Up Method, Procedures, and Core : Vocal Exercises

This text by James Jordan summarizes his 25 years of experience teaching and reinforcing healthy vocal technique for choirs at all levels of development. The book is a comprehensive guide to the teaching of vocal technique through the choral warm-up that he has presented to thousands of choral directors in workshops across the country. Philosophy, teaching procedures, and specific exercises are presented in the text. Among the topics included are: alignment (using Alexander Technique and Body Mapping principles), use of the sigh for diagnosing vocal problems, breathing, inhalation, exhalation, support, resonance, vowel colors, leaps, range extension, crescendo/decrescendo, martellato, staccato, procedures for teaching diction plus general diction guidelines, teaching and reinforcing rhythm and consistent tempo, and strategies for good intonation. This is a comprehensive vocal guide for choral directors. Accompaniment CD included. The Choral Warm-Up is designed to: help conductors plan and implement efficient choral warm-ups, build healthy voices within the choral rehearsal, provide vocalises that have accompaniments complete with modulations upward and downward, and categorize vocalises according to specific vocal objectives.

The Complete Choral Warm-Up Sequences : A Companion to the Choral Warm-Up

The Complete Choral Warm-Up Sequences represents the first truly pedagogically sequenced collection of choral warm-ups in print and the culmination of work begun three decades ago by Frauke Haaseman and James Jordan. The goal of these twenty sequenced choral warm-ups is to build vocal technique and enduring musical skill in ensembles, regardless of age or experience. By synthesizing the most essential elements of the best-selling book The Choral Warm-Up, authors James Jordan and Jesse Borower assemble a practical and easy-to-use resource for conductors and teachers. The warm-up sequences provide a daily “diet” of vocal technique development based onthe latest research in voice science coupled with exercises to develop intonation and audiation according to the principles of Edwin E. Gordon’s Music Learning Theory. This package includes a book for conductors, a book for accompanists, and links to important online audio and video downloads. Written in an easy-to-use format for choral conductors, this valuable resource is a rich collection of cutting-edge pedagogy and the latest in voice science.

Habits of a Successful Middle Level String-Viola : Middle Level String Musician - A Comprehensive Orchestra Curriculum for Years 3, 4 and Beyond

Habits of a Successful Middle Level String Musician is a field-tested musical collection of over 300 sequenced exercises for building fundamentals. Perfect to use with the entire string orchestra or a solo player, this series contains carefully sequenced finger pattern and shifting etudes, tone and articulation warm-ups, sight-reading exercises, rhythm vocabulary studies, chorales, and much more. In one place, this series collects everything an aspiring player needs to build fundamental musicianship skills and then be able to transfer those skills directly into the performance of great literature. Habits of a Successful Middle Level String Musician: Presents a differentiated, sequential, and comprehensive method for developing finger pattern and shifting skills to address the most common problems encountered by intermediate level orchestra students. Organizes tone, rhythm, and articulation patterns into a flexible and sequential series. Creates a method for teaching scales, arpeggios, and thirds that simultaneously accommodates students of different ability levels. Provides chorales for the development of intonation, tone quality, blend, and musicianship. Presents sequenced rhythm vocabulary charts in a format that allows transfer from timing to pitches in a musical context. Includes over ten pages of audition sight-reading exercises in a full- ensemble format that is well planned in scope and sequence. Promotes the idea that students should cross the threshold from the “technical components of playing” to music making. Habits of a Successful Middle Level String Musician is the answer to the very simple question, “What should I be learning during fundamentals time?”

Habits of a Successful Middle Level String-Bass : Middle Level String Musician - A Comprehensive Orchestra Curriculum for Years 3, 4 and Beyond

Habits of a Successful Middle Level String Musician is a field-tested musical collection of over 300 sequenced exercises for building fundamentals. Perfect to use with the entire string orchestra or a solo player, this series contains carefully sequenced finger pattern and shifting etudes, tone and articulation warm-ups, sight-reading exercises, rhythm vocabulary studies, chorales, and much more. In one place, this series collects everything an aspiring player needs to build fundamental musicianship skills and then be able to transfer those skills directly into the performance of great literature. Habits of a Successful Middle Level String Musician: Presents a differentiated, sequential, and comprehensive method for developing finger pattern and shifting skills to address the most common problems encountered by intermediate level orchestra students. Organizes tone, rhythm, and articulation patterns into a flexible and sequential series. Creates a method for teaching scales, arpeggios, and thirds that simultaneously accommodates students of different ability levels. Provides chorales for the development of intonation, tone quality, blend, and musicianship. Presents sequenced rhythm vocabulary charts in a format that allows transfer from timing to pitches in a musical context. Includes over ten pages of audition sight-reading exercises in a full- ensemble format that is well planned in scope and sequence. Promotes the idea that students should cross the threshold from the “technical components of playing” to music making. Habits of a Successful Middle Level String Musician is the answer to the very simple question, “What should I be learning during fundamentals time?”

Inside the Choral Rehearsal : Harmonic Rehearsal Teaching and Learning Based on the Music Learning Theory of Edwin E. Gordon

James Jordan has spent the past 35 years developing applications of the Music Learning Theory of Edwin E. Gordon to the choral rehearsal. Inside the Choral Rehearsal is the culmination of his work—a comprehensive teaching resource detailing all aspects of skill development for choral ensembles of all ages, and deeply rooted in the psychology of music learning. This book explores both the philosophy and practical application of audiation development for choral ensembles, with the goal of contributing to a lifelong acquisition of music skill and audiation. Contributors: Frank Abrahams • Corey Everly • Jonathan Palmer Lakeland • Marilyn Shenenberger • Jason Vodicka Inside the Choral Rehearsal details: • New rehearsal techniques that teach within a harmonic context to reinforce listening and audiation, contributing to long-term musical growth and sensitivity • A comprehensive approach to teaching aural literacy within the choral rehearsal • Philosophies and procedures for teaching the essential elements of musicianship that will transform ensemble performance • Using Aural Immersion Solfège to teach any piece regardless of an ensemble’s reading literacy and music theory knowledge • The use of tonal and rhythm patterns to build audiation skills within each singer in an ensemble • Understanding harmonic rhythm through movement (Space Audiation) to teach central elements of music • The use the audiational breath to transform both musical and interpretative elements within your ensemble • Vocal pedagogy for teaching vowels that creates possibilities for choral intonation • Use of critical pedagogy within rehearsal procedure to empower choral musicians Inside the Choral Rehearsal is a landmark contribution to the choral world.

Habits of a Successful Middle Level String-Violin : Middle Level String Musician - A Comprehensive Orchestra Curriculum for Years 3, 4 and Beyond

Habits of a Successful Middle Level String Musician is a field-tested musical collection of over 300 sequenced exercises for building fundamentals. Perfect to use with the entire string orchestra or a solo player, this series contains carefully sequenced finger pattern and shifting etudes, tone and articulation warm-ups, sight-reading exercises, rhythm vocabulary studies, chorales, and much more. In one place, this series collects everything an aspiring player needs to build fundamental musicianship skills and then be able to transfer those skills directly into the performance of great literature. Habits of a Successful Middle Level String Musician: Presents a differentiated, sequential, and comprehensive method for developing finger pattern and shifting skills to address the most common problems encountered by intermediate level orchestra students. Organizes tone, rhythm, and articulation patterns into a flexible and sequential series. Creates a method for teaching scales, arpeggios, and thirds that simultaneously accommodates students of different ability levels. Provides chorales for the development of intonation, tone quality, blend, and musicianship. Presents sequenced rhythm vocabulary charts in a format that allows transfer from timing to pitches in a musical context. Includes over ten pages of audition sight-reading exercises in a full- ensemble format that is well planned in scope and sequence. Promotes the idea that students should cross the threshold from the “technical components of playing” to music making. Habits of a Successful Middle Level String Musician is the answer to the very simple question, “What should I be learning during fundamentals time?”

Habits of a Successful Middle Level String-Cello : Middle Level String Musician - A Comprehensive Orchestra Curriculum for Years 3, 4 and Beyond

Habits of a Successful Middle Level String Musician is a field-tested musical collection of over 300 sequenced exercises for building fundamentals. Perfect to use with the entire string orchestra or a solo player, this series contains carefully sequenced finger pattern and shifting etudes, tone and articulation warm-ups, sight-reading exercises, rhythm vocabulary studies, chorales, and much more. In one place, this series collects everything an aspiring player needs to build fundamental musicianship skills and then be able to transfer those skills directly into the performance of great literature. Habits of a Successful Middle Level String Musician: Presents a differentiated, sequential, and comprehensive method for developing finger pattern and shifting skills to address the most common problems encountered by intermediate level orchestra students. Organizes tone, rhythm, and articulation patterns into a flexible and sequential series. Creates a method for teaching scales, arpeggios, and thirds that simultaneously accommodates students of different ability levels. Provides chorales for the development of intonation, tone quality, blend, and musicianship. Presents sequenced rhythm vocabulary charts in a format that allows transfer from timing to pitches in a musical context. Includes over ten pages of audition sight-reading exercises in a full- ensemble format that is well planned in scope and sequence. Promotes the idea that students should cross the threshold from the “technical components of playing” to music making. Habits of a Successful Middle Level String Musician is the answer to the very simple question, “What should I be learning during fundamentals time?”