Based on a true story, Swallows Town Ocarina is about the togetherness and warmth that music and dance can bring to the every day life of simple people in a small town in Brazil in the beginning of the twentieth century. Enjoy the inspiration of migrating birds, ocarina music and dance as they create the fun and joy citizens of a small town had longed for.

How do globalization and internationalization impact music education around the world? By acknowledging different cultural values and priorities, Alexandra Kertz-Welzel's vision challenges the current state of international music education and higher education, which has been dominated by English-language scholarship. Her framework utilizes an interdisciplinary approach and emphasizes the need for developing a pluralistic mode of thinking, while underlining shared foundations and goals. She explores issues of educational transfer, differences in academic discourses worldwide, and the concept of the global mindset to help facilitate much-needed transformations in global music education. This thinking and research, she argues, provides a means for better understanding global transfers of knowledge and ways to avoid culturally and linguistically hegemonic standards. Globalizing Music Education: A Framework is a timely call to action for a more conscious internationalization of music education in which everyone can play a part.

The choral world is drifting and in need of solutions in relation to one of its most enduring problems - the shortage of male singers. Contemporary Choral Work with Boys offers a radical re-appraisal of the situation based on a unique combination of scholarly work on the sociocultural aspects of young male singing with similar cutting edge work on the physiological. The book provides clear, lucid information on the nature of puberty and later adolescence and the impact these times have upon both the vocal mechanism and the social self. New data answer many questions about whether or not trends in the timing of puberty are causing voices to "break" earlier and how choir directors and singing teachers need to respond. The book contains a significant amount clinical reference material, but the text and presentation is designed to serve primarily as a practical handbook. Thus, readers will be able to access the practical advice readily, whilst having access to more detailed scientific information as and when they need it. Pitched at a level that will appeal to those who have some experience of working with choirs that include young male singers (or would like to include such singers), it should answer questions that such readers will inevitably have through their experience. While Professor Ashley's book will stimulate much debate and no little soul searching, it will encourage organizations associated with choral singing to explore exciting new initiatives to break the deadlock of the "missing males" in choral singing.

Suitable for use on Mac or PC, the Jolly Music Player: Level 1 is intended for use with the Jolly Music programme as set out in The Music Handbook: Level 1. It contains all of the Jolly Music repertoire for Level 1 and provides support for the teacher both in the classroom and when preparing lessons. It can be used on an interactive whiteboard or simply with an overhead projector and screen. With the player you can: * Quickly access any song or teaching track * Display songs and rhymes on the screen with audio * Use the animation feature to show the pulse (represented by hearts above the words) and the timing of the actions in songs and rhymes * Use the lesson playlists as a substitute for the CDs in the Handbook * Create your own playlists * View and print song information, posters and all the photocopiable material from The Music Handbook: Level 1 (templates, rhythm cards etc.) The license allows you to install the software on as many computers as you own (applies to individuals and schools).

Suitable for use on Mac or PC, the Jolly Music Player: Level 3 is intended for use with the Jolly Music programme as set out in The Music Handbook: Level 3. It contains all of the Jolly Music repertoire for Level 3 and provides support for the teacher both in the classroom and when preparing lessons. It can be used on an interactive whiteboard or simply with an overhead projector and screen. With the player you can: * Quickly access any song or teaching track * Display songs and rhymes on the screen with audio * Use the animation feature to show the pulse (represented by hearts above the words) and the timing of the actions in songs and rhymes * Use the lesson playlists as a substitute for the CDs in the Handbook * Create your own playlists * View and print song information, posters and all the photocopiable material from The Music Handbook: Level 3 (templates, rhythm cards etc.) The license allows you to install the software on as many computers as you own (applies to individuals and schools).

Teaching Music to Students with Special Needs: A Practical Resource brings together theory and policy and planning for instruction in K-12 classrooms. The resource is a result of collaboration between K-12 teachers, outstanding undergraduate and graduate music education students, and professionals in the field. The lesson ideas, lesson plans, and unit plans are organized according to the six domains posited by Alice Hammel and Ryan Hourigan in their book, Teaching Music to Students with Special Needs: A Label-free Approach (Second Edition). This book equips music educators to understand and implement teaching ideas into the domains of cognition, communication, behavior, emotions, and physical and sensory needs. Classroom-tested lesson plans include procedure outlines and assessments as well as guides for adaptation, accommodation, and modification needed for successful implementation in K-12 classrooms. As such, this eminently practical resource provides teachers with enough practical ideas to allow them to begin to create and adapt their own lesson plans for use with students of differing needs and abilities.

This book offers a simple overview of how children can make music. Easy-to-read text, labeled photos, and a picture glossary make this book the perfect introduction to the topic.

This is a great collection of favourite songs specially chosen for primary school age children starting to learn the instrument! No previous knowledge of music is necessary for pupils - or the teacher. Just master the easy-to-lay chord shapes and sing along. "Ukulele from the Beginning" is an ideal introduction to his great little instrument and in no time at all the whole class will be playing and accompanying themselves. Includes audio CD with music examples.