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Studio Makeover: Technology "Addition"

Studio Makeover:
Technology "Addition"

All the tools you need to build a studio lab from the ground up!

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Lab Log

by Michelle Sisler

$6.95

This book is designed to help you assign each new lesson and keep track of what students are working on during their lab time.  Each book has a place for you to write their assignment and for them to write their accomplishments and score. Each book has separate color pages for each student and accommodates 10 students for one year of lessons.  We recommend one book per day of the week you teach. 

Alfred Tech Series Teacher's Guide

$49.95    Your Price    $44.95

The Music Tech Series Teacher’s Manual incorporates all three of the books in the series (Composing Music with Notation, Playing Keyboard and Sequencing and Music Production). A Teacher’s CD containing additional files not found in the Student CDs is included. The Teacher’s Manual provides lesson ideas (suggestions that you can reference as you teach each page of the Student Books), assessment possibilities, and extension activities (additional activities you can consider to extend the lesson).

 

Composing Music With Notation
(Alfred)

$16.95        Your Price $15.50

Alfred’s Music Tech Series: Composing Music With Notation is a breakthrough method designed for elementary to high school students that can be used in a classroom setting or for individual study. Progressive and supplemental activities are included in each unit. Complete with an accompanying data CD that contains compatible files for most music-notation software programs, Composing Music With Notation introduces and explains concepts that will help music students to have a broader understanding of the elements of music, become familiar with the operation of notation software programs, compose melodies and accompaniments on the computer, and use notation software to create their own arrangements! Best of all, no previous experience with music notation software or music theory is required!

 

Sequencing and Music Production (Alfred)

$16.95    Your Price $15.50

Alfred’s Music Tech Series: Sequencing and Music Production is designed for late elementary to high school students, and can be used in groups or individually. No previous experience with composition or sequencing/audio recording software is required. With Sequencing and Music Production, students will have a broader understanding of composing and recording music become familiar with basic tools and techniques for recording MIDI and audio, manipulate and arrange multi-track audio, and mix their own songs

Sequencing and Music Production is organized into four units, each including progressive and supplemental activities for practice and reinforcement. Topics include:

Unit 2: Rhythm, Melody and MIDI Recording
Unit 3: Pentatonic, Japanese Folk Song
Unit 4: Build a Song

 

Playing Keyboard (Alfred)

Book and CD    $16.95    Your Price    $15.50

Alfred’s Music Tech Series is designed for late elementary to high school students who are learning the piano in a group-lab setting. No previous keyboard-playing experience is required! Playing Keyboard is specifically designed for use in a keyboard lab setting, integrating a variety of performance activities to enhance the learning process and including challenging activities for students who have more advanced playing experience. The method has been designed and field tested over the past ten years by Dr. Tom Rudolph with students at both middle school and high school levels.

Playing Keyboard is organized into five units, each including progressive and supplemental activities for practice and reinforcement. Topics include:
Unit 1: Left- and right-hand melody in C position; percussion accompaniment
Unit 2: Two-hand melody with C chord; percussion accompaniment; enrichment songs
Unit 3: C and G7 chords with the left hand; improvise percussion parts; enrichment songs
Unit 4: C, F, and G7 chords with the left hand; percussion accompaniment; Theme and Variations form
Unit 5: Variations of the 12-bar blues progression in C; improvise melodies using the blues scale.

 

Technology Guide for Music Educators  (TI:ME)

 

$19.99    Your Price    $17.99

 

edited by Scott Watson (Artistpro)

This comprehensive resource guide covers six core technology areas including electronic musical instruments, music production, music production, music notation software, technology-assisted learning, multi-media, productivity tools, classroom and lab management.

 

 

 

Technology Strategies for Music Educators  (TI:ME)

 

$19.99    Your Price $17.99
Enhance your teaching with more than 200 strategies for integrating technology into the music curriculum.   Technology Strategies for Music Education is must reading for all elementary, secondary, and higher education music educators. This book is designed to be an overview and contains more than 200 strategies for integrating technology into the music curriculum, areas of competency leading to TI:ME certification, and a description of the Technology Institute for Music Educators.

Accent on Composers
by Judy O'Reilly and Jay Althouse  (Alfred)

$39.95    Your Price    $35.95
A complete music appreciation course in one, 120-page, reproducible book/CD package. For each of the 22 featured composers there is a bio (focusing on his or her personal life), a portrait, a listing of the types of music he or she composed, composer factoids, and a time line. The CD contains a listening example for each composer. The reproducible listening guide includes information about each listening example and a second by second "what to listen for in the music." Also included are reviews for each composer, plus more than two dozen pages of supplementary material. And it's all reproducible! Composers include: Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Copland, Debussy, Handel, Joplin, Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn, Mozart, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Verdi and MORE!

Meet the Great Composers
Classroom Kit
(Book, CD, Reproducible Activity Sheets) by Maurice Hinson and June C. Montgomery (Alfred)
Book 1    $29.95    Your Price $26.95

Book 2    $29.95      Your Price $26.95

Each unit on a famous composer takes approximately 20 minutes to complete and can be used in group teaching, home school or as an assignment for individual upper elementary or middle school students. The Classroom Kit contains the book and CD combo and reproducible activity sheets. The companion repertoire book contains simplified arrangements of famous themes.


 

Meet the Great Composers Corresponding Repertoire Book

Book 1   $7.95    Your Price    $7.25 

Book 2    $7.95    Your Price     $7.25

 

Book 1:

The companion repertoire series to Meet the Great Composers features familiar piano compositions at the late-elementary to early-intermediate level. Contains original pieces and arrangements of beloved classics by the composers featured in Book 1.

 Includes the Following Selections:
 

Title    
  • Liebesträume No. 3
    		•    Liszt
  • Minuet
    		•  K. 73b; L. 217 Scarlatti
  • Pavane for a Dead Princess
    		•    Ravel
  • Sonatina in C Major
    		•  Op. 36, No. 1 Clementi
  • Folk Dance
    		•  Sz. 42:6 Bartók
  • Fantasie-Impromptu
    		•  Op. 66 Chopin
  • Allegro
    		•  Hob. XVI:8 Haydn
  • Rêverie
    		•  L. 68 Debussy
  • Sarabande
    		•    Handel
  • Minuet in F Major
    		•  K.2 Mozart
  • Menuet in G Major
    		•  BWV Anh. 114 Bach
  • The Easy Winners
    		•    Joplin
  • Piano Concerto No. 2 (Theme from the Third Movement)
    		•    Rachmaninoff
  • Écossaise
    		•  WoO 23 Beethoven
  • Waltz
    		•  Op. 39, No. 2 Brahms
  • The Wild Rider
    		•  Op. 68, No. 8 Schumann
  • The Clown
    		•  Op. 39, No. 20 Kabalevsky

     

    Book 2:

    The companion repertoire series to Meet the Great Composers features familiar piano compositions at the intermediate to late-intermediate level. Contains original pieces and arrangements of beloved classics by the composers featured in Book 2.

    Includes the Following Selection:

    Title    
  • The Kind Cuckoos
    		•    Couperin
  • Valse Sentimentale
    		•  D. 779:13 Schubert
  • Mazurka
    		•  Op. 6, No. 5 Schumann
  • Humoreske
    		•  Op. 101, No. 7 Dvorák
  • Sonatina in C Major
    		•  Op. 55, No. 1 Kuhlau
  • Echoes of Gershwin
    (In the style of George Gershwin)
    		•    Montgomery
  • Stephen Foster Medley
    		•  Foster
  • Waltz
    		•  Op. 36, No. 3 Beach
  • Spanish Dance
    		•  Op. 5, No. 5 Granados
  • Piano Concerto No. 1 (Theme from the Second Movement)
    		•  Op. 23 Tchaikovsky
  • Faith
    		•  Op. 102, No. 6 Mendelssohn
  • March
    (In the style of Sergei Prokofiev)
    		•    Montgomery/Hinson
  • Elfin Dance
    		•  Op. 12, No. 4 Grieg
  • I Wandered in the Forest
    		•    Mendelssohn Hensel
  • Siciliana
    		•    Stravinsky
  • Love Song
    		•    Barber
  • To a Wild Rose
    		•  Op. 51, No. 1 MacDowell

     

    Music By Me

    by Kevin Olson and Wynn-Anne Rossi (FJH)

    Music by Me, Book 1      

    $6.50         Your Price    $5.95

    Introduce students to the joy of composing their own music in this first workbook in a new series. Contains seven lesson units (rhythm, melody, harmony, repetition, form, modern music, and review), each divided into four parts: Tool of the Trade (elements of composition), Let's Explore (fun activity to use the tool), Improvise! (experimentation), and Compose Your Own (inspiring start-offs). Enjoy watching the creative spark ignite, as your students exclaim, “This is Music by Me!”
     

    Music By Me, Book 2     

    $6.50         Your Price    $5.95

    This second Music by Me continues to play out the creative joy of the first. Book Two has the seven familiar units (rhythm, melody, harmony, bass patterns, musical form, modern music, and review), each divided into four: Tool of the Trade, Let's Explore, Improvise!, and Compose Your Own. Humorous and light touches abound, such as "Breakfast Food Rhythms," and "The Three Bears Improv," plus clearer references such as "Dominant Detective" and "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Chords."

    Music By Me, Book 3    

     $6.50         Your Price    $5.95

     
    This third book continues the discovery of the tools used in composition. New concepts covered include: new rhythms (upbeats and downbeats), melody sequencing, harmonizing, theme and variations, and modern scales.

    Music By Me, Book 4    

    $6.95        Your Price    $6.25

     

    Music by Me, Book 4 contains six units designed for the early intermediate student. In this book, the topics covered include: syncopation, melodic non-chord tones, harmonic chord progressions, exercises in setting lyrics to music, 12-bar blues, and a discovery of modes.
     

    Music By Me, Book 5   

    $6.95        Your Price $6.25

     

    Book Five in this series is designed for the intermediate level student. Each unit is divided into four parts: Tools of the Trade; Let¹s Explore; Scanning the Score; Compose Your Own. Some of the unit topics included: compound meters; transposition; altered chords; modulation; extended forms; and experimenting with rhythm. As with the previous books in this series, the goal is to unlock the student¹s creative potential and imagination.