This volume draws together leading researchers and practitioners in voice pedagogy in Australia. The collection is designed to be an ongoing resource for singing teachers, and the publication is aligned with the Australian National Association of Teachers of Singing. The book serves as a snapshot of work in the field, and encompasses voice science, studio pedagogy and the role of the performer-teacher. It transcends genre boundaries and includes chapters on opera, music theatre, choral music, jazz, worship singing and cabaret.

Focusing on the stories of individuals about the ways that people, places, and spaces in music education interact to shape identity, this volume also contains essays from prominent educators on narrative inquiry and the role of discussant within the context of the Annual Meeting of AERA.

Artist and songwriter Sweet's delightful children's book features watercolor drawings of her great-nephews on a trip to the zoo. The upbeat theme of the song and illustrations is that God makes everything.

Many of the earliest children's books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pook Press are working to republish these classic works in affordable, high quality editions, using the original text and artwork so these works can delight another generation of children.

Music Theory Fun Can Help Your Child Succeed at the Piano

To succeed with any musical instrument, your child needs to understand music theory. Fortunately, Doctor Mozart workbooks make it fun to learn music theory essentials in-depth. They feature a crew of colorful cartoon characters to coach your child with: Entertaining illustrations and diagrams designed to serve as memory aids and stimulate your child's interest. Highly effective exercises to ensure that your child understands every topic. Clear, detailed explanations in short, simple sentences. Free videos on the DoctorMozart.com website to help your child get started with music theory. A hands-on, pencil and paper, tactile experience that involves writing notes, clefs, and musical symbols by hand, for learning that is deep and enduring.

Whether your child is learning piano, guitar, violin, flute, or any other instrument, Doctor Mozart's keyboard-based approach to music theory can help your child succeed.

Ideal For Music Lessons and Home Schooling

Because each topic is explained clearly and in detail, Doctor Mozart workbooks are easy to understand for children and parents alike. Hence they are ideal for home schooling.

As well, Doctor Mozart workbooks are exceptionally helpful with formal music lessons, no matter what other teaching materials are used. They are also compatible with the Royal Conservatory of Music(r) Basic Rudiments program and the Music Teachers' Association of California Certificate of Merit(r).

Doctor Mozart Level 1 workbooks are ideal for beginners, 6 to 12 years old. With close adult supervision, children under 6 can also use Doctor Mozart workbooks.

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"As a Certified Teacher of Kelly Kirby Kindergarten Piano, I have several of my4 and 5 year olds using the Doctor Mozart Book. They are enjoying it immensely." D.L., AB.

"Our Kindergarten and 1st graders especially love this book. I'm really impressed with how much they enjoy doing their theory work. If anything is going to get done during the week, it is their pages in Doctor Mozart." L.H., Huntington Center for the Arts, LA

"I have been searching for a theory book which will enhance the piano student's lessons rather than bore them. I have also been unable to find theory books which focus on linking the keyboard to the staff. The Doctor Mozart theory book is filled with everything for which I have been searching. The pages are colorful, and there are interesting, fun tips that help students retain information in ways not found in the traditional theory books. I was THRILLED to find that this book has many sections dedicated to helping the student realize how each staff note is related to a key on the piano. Thank you " J.K., Maple Grove, MN

Order All Three

Each Level 1 workbook is sold individually. Order all three to cover the following topics in depth:

Level 1A Pitch: The treble and bass clefs. Matching staff notes with keys on the keyboard. The C major triad. Musical Time: Quarter, half, and whole notes. Bar lines and measures.

Level 1B Pitch: All notes on the treble and bass staffs. Draw lines from staff notes to the keyboard. Musical Time: Quarter, half, and whole notes and rests. Time signatures. Dynamics and articulation marks.

Level 1C Pitch: Accidentals. Diatonic and chromatic semitones. Enharmonic notes. Key signatures. Scales. Tempo and expression terminology.

A colorful certificate of achievement at the end of each book rewards students for their effort.

"Wacky Musical Instruments!" Is a FamilyAffair!This delightful Book is about Familiesof the Symphony Orchestra and howeach Family Member works together withOther Families of the Orchestra to bringabout the MIRACLE of LIVE MUSIC!!After all, MUSIC is the UniversalLanguage for the entire world!Readers of ALL ages and backgroundswill ENJOY the hilarious Drawings of our15 Wacky Musical Instruments as theytell their stories through SOUND andWacky Poetry! ENJOY!!

Justin Bieber was born in Canada and became a YouTube sensation when he was only 12 years old. He's now signed with Island Def Jam Records and just released his first album, "My World". Justin is working with music heavyweights like P. Diddy and Usher and already has four hit singles and a rabid fan base! He's set to release new album in March and to be on tour for much of the year. This book has all the facts about Justin and tons of fun photos.

This 60 page big book with its integral fold-out stand is ideal for whole class singing, and full of colour illustrations. It contains the complete collection of four rhymes and 25 songs for Level 2 in a large easy-to-read format. Each rhyme or song includes pulse marks to guide the children in performance, and pictures to remind them of the appropriate actions.

The influence of globalisation on musical composition has grown remarkably in recent years. This reflects the wider impact of late 20th Century demographic and technological shifts on culture. Great movements of people followed the end of the cold war, with migrants in their millions responding to the call of more affluent nations for willing workers. The industrialisation of many developing countries similarly fuelled the movement of people, with ethnic tensions following the withdrawal of colonial powers displacing many others. The globalisation of information, the 'internet' accompanied by widespread exploitation of satellite communications technology, has brought new images and sounds into our work and dwelling places. These shifts have accelerated the practices associated with musical globalisation, causing new 'accented' cultures to develop, absorbing, influencing, reflecting and refracting new host milieux. These changes have impacted on musical practices, destabilising core assumptions and disturbing long established hierarchies. The present volume explores these developing influences through a consideration of extant works, experimental composition and contingent analysis

"From top dogs Chis Raschka and Vladimir Radunsky comes an uplifting tale of canine self-reliance told in acrobatic, infectious rhyme."

I'm the zoom-est and the boom-est, spread no gloom-est, say no doom-est. I'm the top-est, never stop-est, Boston Pop-est, be be bop-est. I'm the jazz-est, razzmatazz-est, dazzle dazz-est, most pizzazz-est.

Think I kinda like it as the "Hip Hop Dog."

In an empowering story of an underdog who finds his voice and sense of self-worth through music, here is one hip dog who starts out as a dejected mutt but finds his groove--and his place in the world--through hip hop.

(Book). The first complete music educators' guide to harnessing the power of YouTube for students, YouTube in Music Education teaches instructors how to tap into the excitement of YouTube with students by creating, posting, and promoting videos on the most popular media service in the world. Explaining how to record and edit videos, add effects, and upload content, Dr. Tom Rudolph and Dr. James Frankel describe everything from the basics of video production to advanced applications for use in the classroom. The authors explain how teachers can use YouTube privately with their students and integrate it with websites and blogs. Educators can use YouTube for applications that include creating instrument and software tutorials, evaluating group and individual performances, sharing content with students, and other uses. * More than 50 strategies for integrating YouTube into the music curriculum * Tutorials on video and audio production and preparing and uploading content Music educators selected this book as "The Best Web Tool" in the Tools for Schools poll at the 2010 NAMM show

A volume in Advances in Music Education Research Series Editors Linda K. Thompson, Lee University and Mark Robin Campbell, SUNY at Potsdam Research Perspectives: Thought and Practice in Music Education calls attention to various theoretical and methodological aspects within the expanding field of research in music education. Perspectives presented in this volume offer readers a host of ideas and practices that range from international and historical to empirical and philosophical. Of special interest is a set of invited essays. Collectively, these essays illuminate our understanding of the peer review process, the importance of artistic vision in research and education, and the notion of complementarity - a recognition of the validity of diversity of thought and practice in music education research. The studies in Part 1 of Research Perspectives include early childhood musical development, an international comparison of early childhood preservice teacher knowledge and skills, and a psychohistoric examination of developmentally appropriate practice. Part II is comprised of studies focused on psychometrics of motivation, and professional development of practicing music educators. This volume is a significant addition to the libraries of Colleges of Education and Schools of Music, as well as an important reference for music scholars and educators, researchers, and graduate students who are concerned with advancing both the scope and quality of research in the study of music teaching and learning.

The application of music in healing within Africa has been portrayed as nearly inevitably a subject about traditional rituals of possession adepts or shamans. It seems the absence of music therapy as a professional practice, and an interest in traditional cultures among anthropologists and ethnomusicologists, is responsible for that conjecture. Details in one of the chapters in this text leave no doubt that there is a strong relationship between music and traditional healing in Kenya. But comparable rituals are for Kenyans also Western imports, for healing procedures in performances of catholic charismatics clearly show that analogous trance behavior is manifest in healing functions in which music or sound is likewise essential. What's more, a chapter on street musicians shows that relationships between music and healing are evident in contexts other than just religious rituals. Scholars in musicology, anthropology, music therapy, psychology, religious studies, African Studies, and others interested in healing and/or music will find this text relevant. It is suggested that a workable music therapy for Africa needs an understanding of practices of healing in Africa that apply music, such as those discussed.

Edward Lear was an English artist, illustrator, author, and poet, renowned for his literary nonsense, in poetry and prose, and especially his limericks, a form that he popularized. Lear's nonsense works are distinguished by a facility of verbal invention and a poet's delight in the sounds of words, both real and imaginary. A stuffed rhinoceros becomes a "diaphanous doorscraper." A "blue Boss-Woss" plunges into "a perpendicular, spicular, orbicular, quadrangular, circular depth of soft mud." His heroes are Quangle-Wangles, Pobbles, and Jumblies. His most famous piece of verbal invention, a "runcible spoon" occurs in the closing lines of The Owl and the Pussycat, and is now found in many English dictionaries. Reviews Surely the most beneficent and innocent of all books yet produced is the "Book of Nonsense," with its corollary carols, inimitable and refreshing, and perfect in rhythm. I really don't know any author to whom I am half so grateful for my idle self as Edward Lear. I shall put him first of my hundred authors. -JOHN RUSKIN, In the "List of the Best Hundred Authors." 'A magic song-writer, with something like a reverence for the absurd.' - Times Literary Supplement

This big book with its integral fold-out stand is ideal for whole class singing, and your children will love the full-colour illustrations. It contains the complete collection of seven rhymes and 29 songs for Level 1 in a large easy-to-read format. Each rhyme or song includes pulse marks to guide the children in performance, and pictures to remind them of the appropriate actions or games.

Walter Crane (1845-1915) was one of the earliest contributors to children's literature and one of the most influential illustrators in the development of children's colour picture books. Crane began working for Edmund Evans in 1864 producing bright, colourful children's books which revolutionised the type of children's books available. This book, 'The Baby's Opera, A Book Of Old Rhymes In New Dresses' was originally published in 1877. It contains the music for many English nursery songs and Cranes beautiful illustrations make it one of his best known books. Many of the earliest children's books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pook Press are working to republish these classic works in affordable, high quality, colour editions, using the original text and artwork so these works can delight another generation of children.

"Solo Piano for Children" includes thirty four solo piano pieces composed especially for young pianists. The compositions have different styles and characters with detailed fingering intended to interest young performers and large notes for easy sight reading. This book will assist in preparing little fingers for more difficult pieces from the classic and modern repertoire. The pieces in this book are also appropriate for the adult amateur pianist.

There is advice on how best to tackle research and the collection of information, and how to structure an essay. Examples are provided, drawing on many different types of music. Help is given on how to approach detailed set-work questions, extended essays and programme notes. Also included are some argument-provoking, open-ended questions that invite you to consider and structure responses to broader musical issues. Suitable for AS and A2 students of music, progressing on to those taking the IB diploma or Cambridge Pre-U exams, and designed to bridge the gap for those continuing on to university studies, this book supports the development of skills useful to many areas of academic life.

Portia White, born in 1911, had a dream: to sing on stage. Even as a little girl in Halifax, Nova Scotia, she could imagine an audience before her, clapping as she took her bow. But how could a poor girl growing up in a family with ten siblings make that dream come true? At that time, there were few opera roles available for black singers. To become a recital singer, she would have to go to Europe to study. How could she ever afford that? But Portia was not only a talented contralto, she was determined. With the support of her family and community, she eventually climbed onto stages across Canada, the United States, and Central and South America in the late 1930s and early 1940s. She crossed the colour barrier to enter concert halls and sing before white and black audiences on both continents. Later, she became a teacher and mentor of other well-known and successful singers. When Portia White died in 1968, she left a legacy of living to her belief that "first you dream and then you lace up your boots."

Music education does not exist independently; it exists in a social context. The author sheds light on political, economic, sociological and cultural influences on the history of Korean middle school music education between the years of 1945 and 2005. This book divides the history of Korean school music curriculum into four periods: (1) Immediate Post War Period (1945-1960); (2) National Development (1960-1979); (3) Stability Period (1980-1987); and (4) Towards the 21st Century (1988-2005). Each period is contextualized along political and socioeconomic lines, and includes a thorough discussion on the musical philosophies and repertoire used in the specific time frames. Adding a vivid dimension to the school music experiences across time, the book is also analyzed the content of schools songs contained in textbooks. Music educators should be responsive to this issue, and the book discusses some interesting issues that are relevant to musicians from different parts of the world.