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This title includes a Book, 1 DVD & 1 CD. Learning to play the
keyboard is fun with this carefully designed method for the young
beginner. The key features include: easy to follow lesson-by-lesson
format for the absolute beginner; incorporates a repertoire of
well-known children's songs; introduces 5 notes with the right hand
& 3 one-fingered chords with the left hand; teaches music
theory in an interesting and practical way; full colour
illustrations throughout the whole book; the student can continue
on to "Keyboard Method for Young Beginners" Book 2 and Book 3; and
a must-have for any child with an interest in playing a musical
instrument. This method for Young Beginners also comes with a CD
and DVD with recordings of all examples and exercises contained in
the book.
Covers the life and works of classical music composer, Peter
Schickele, who is probably best known for his humorous alter ego,
P.D.Q. Bach. Schickele has walked the line between a professional
composer and musical satirist for over 35 years, and his
compositions have reached into virtually every genre of music from
jazz to rock to folk to movie music and to classical. The major
influences in his career include his love of the theater, Spike
Jones, and a philosophy that no genre of music is inherently
inferior. Schickele was consulted during the compilation of this
volume, therefore, much of the date and premier information comes
from his own resources. This volume contains a brief biography of
Peter Schickele and a detailed list of his Works and Performances,
a discography, a bibliography, an alphabetical index, a chronology,
and a name index. Scholars who study humor in music and 21st
century American composers will now have a comprehensive sourcebook
on Peter Schickele and his works.
How do you sum up the amazing world of art in just 100 words? This
striking book takes on the challenge! From pottery to Pointillism,
each of the carefully chosen 100 words has its own 100-word long
description and quirky illustration, providing a fascinating
introduction to art. Basically, everything you need to know in a
nutshell. Along with some classic methods, such as painting and
sketching, you'll also discover less predictable aspects of art
that will give you a fresh perspective. Featuring materials,
elements, methods, art movements, styles and places this book
covers a wide range of topics and themes, as well as some key
artists of the past and present. With a clean, contemporary design,
each word occupies a page of its own. A large striking illustration
neatly encapsulates the accompanying 100 words of text. Other
titles in the 100 Things to Know About series include: Ancient
World, World Politics, Inventions.
Bebop music is more than a jazz movement that seemed to have burst
suddenly upon the jazz scene-it is an outgrowth of the
sociocultural environment dating from the 1920s through the 1940s.
In this consideration of the period and its music, noted jazz
scholar Eddie S. Meadows traces the cultural and ideological
context that produced Bebop and advocates that Cool Jazz was a
reaction to Bebop, a natural outgrowth of its predecessor. Unlike
most jazz research on the subject, ^IBebop to Cool^R features
insider perspectives on both the social context of the music and
the music itself, as a means of capturing the musical aesthetics
and the cultural spirit of the time. The volume includes the
perspectives of Marcus Garvey, W. E. B. DuBois, and other leaders
of the Harlem Renaissance; also discussed here for the first time
is the role that Islam played in the music's development. Finally,
in identifying and discussing the work of such significant
musicians as Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Charlie
Parker, and Stan Getz, Meadows demonstrates their unique musical
identities within the respective genres that compose the
revolutionary Bebop and Cool Jazz movements.
Increasingly, guitar study is offered alongside band, orchestra,
and chorus in school music programs. This development has drawn a
new population of students into those programs but has left music
educators scrambling to developing meaningful, sequential courses
of study that both meet the needs of these new students and align
with state, county, and national curricula. Few available guitar
methods are designed with the classroom in mind, and fewer still
take a holistic approach to teaching and learning the instrument.
In short, teachers are left to navigate a vast array of method
books that cover a variety of styles and approaches, often without
the confidence and experience necessary to know 'what to teach
when.' The Guitar Workbook: A Fresh Approach to Exploration and
Mastery addresses the needs of these educators. Throughout the
book's 20 lessons, students are encouraged to explore the ways
various guitar styles and notation systems differ, as well as the
ways they support and complement each other. Lessons cover myriad
topics including pick-style playing, basic open position chords,
finger-style technique, and power chords. Suggested 'Mastery
Activities' at the end of each lesson support higher-order
thinking, contextualize the skills and concepts studied, and
provide a jumping off point for further exploration. Additionally,
suggestions for further study point teachers and students to
resources for extra practice.
Welcome to the imaginary world of a most unusual painter, Guiseppe
Arcimboldo, who created highly original still life portraits that
are, in fact, full of life! Using your 'magic' torch, explore the
strange and surprising details of his Renaissance paintings: a head
made of flowers and a body made of leaves, a mushroom mouth and a
courgette nose, peach cheeks and cherry lips. Each spread more
spectacular than the last! This title is part of the My First
Discovery paperback series - a unique collection of beautifully
illustrated information books for children aged 4 to 7, with simple
language to aid learning and realistic artwork to inspire young
minds. This edition contains a paper torch at the back of the book,
revealing hidden secrets on the 4 darkened transparent pages and
making the story come alive - one detail at a time. With free
access to a brand new audio app, children can listen and read along
at their own pace, page by page.
Fire up young readers' imagination and creativity with this classic
story featuring added STEAM activities. Dorothy's adventure through
Oz is retold with vivid and engaging new illustrations - and at the
end of every chapter, there are exciting new science, technology,
engineering, art and mathematics activities, themed around the
events in the book. The activities range from simple puzzles to
fun, dynamic experiments, so there's something for every enquiring
mind. It's the ideal combination of enchanting story and
stimulating science fun.
British youth television is the first book to concentrate on the high profile genre of 'yoof television'. Concentrating on such controversial programmes as The Word, Snub TV and Don't Forget Your Toothbrush, the author demonstrates how the the contemporary youth audience - the so-called Generation X - were addressed by these shows' blend of 'cynicism and enchantment'. Providing both an overview and a series of detailed programme analyses the book concentrates on a well known but little written about genre from a fresh and accessible perspective.
Seminal lectures on music education since the 1990s. There is no
question that music education is in crisis today. The place of
music in the national curriculum is controversial; there have been
cuts in the provision of individual lessons; and there have been
severe reductions in government funding, with more planned. This
book, containing the first five Bernarr Rainbow Lectures, makes an
important and timely contribution to the debate on music education.
Baroness Warnock brings the perspective of a distinguished
philosopher to bear on issues about the nature of music and its
study; Lord Moser urges us to maintain and expand what has been
achieved since World War II; the late Professor John Paynter,
responsible for the 1960s surge in creative approaches to music
teaching, presents his case in two contributions; John Stephens
discusses structures for music teaching and then, in a second
contribution, brings everything up to date; and Professor Gavin
Henderson traces his own colourful career and supports music for
all ages. Also included is the 2005 Royal Philharmonic Society by
the Master of the Queen's Music, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies; an
assessment from Bernarr Rainbow himself, written late in his life;
an indictment from Wilfrid Mellers; and two reviews of Bernarr
Rainbow on Music: Memoirs and Selected Writings, showing the
continuing importance of his work fifteen years after his death.
This book is part of the series Classic Texts in Music Education,
edited by Professor Peter Dickinson, and supported by the Bernarr
Rainbow Trust. Peter Dickinson is a British composer, writer and
pianist and authorand editor of books on Lennox Berkeley, Copland,
Cage, Barber and Berners.
The weird, wonderful, exciting world of Star Wars: The Force
Awakens comes alive with this Ultimate Sticker Collection.
Featuring more than 1,000 stickers of new characters, creatures,
aliens, droids, and ships, as well as free-stick pages to create
your own scenes, this Ultimate Sticker Collection will keep
children entertained for hours. (c) & TM 2015 LUCASFILM LTD.
This text offers an iconoclastic account of cultural policy making
in France. Focusing on the policies of the Socialist governments of
1981-86 and 1988-93, the book suggests that policy towards the arts
was shaped less by an all powerful state than by influential
professional interest group. In addition to presenting unusual
insights into a policy area which has rarely been studied by
political science, the text provides significant revisions to
conventional views of relations between the state and civil society
in France.
This volume focuses specifically on narrative inquiry as a means
to interrogate research questions in music education, offering
music education researchers indispensible information on the use of
qualitative research methods, particularly narrative, as
appropriate and acceptable means of conducting and reporting
research.
This anthology of narrative research work in the fields of music
and education builds on and supports the work presented in the
editors' first volume in "Narrative Inquiry in Music Education:
Troubling Certainty" (Barrett & Stauffer, 2009, Springer). The
first volume provides a context for undertaking narrative inquiry
in music education, as well as exemplars of narrative inquiry in
music education and commentary from key international voices in the
fields of narrative inquiry and music education respectively.
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Mastering Basic Skills(R) Kindergarten includes basic skills and
concepts essential to kindergarteners. Topics include sight word
vocabulary, reading readiness, time and money, language arts and
phonics, handwriting, and math. The Mastering Basic Skills(R)
series includes grade-specific math and language arts activities as
well as reading lists, skills checklists, awards, and mini books.
The comprehensive content and extra features increase the value of
this series making it an appealing choice to parents looking for
extra at-home practice for their child.
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