Teacher Resource Library

Benjamin Britten's
THE YOUNG PERSON'S GUIDE TO THE ORCHESTRA

TEACHING STRATEGIES FOR THE CLASSROOM

This familiar standard by Benjamin Britten has become the classic introduction to the sights and sounds of the orchestra for young people. Created for the music classroom, the Activity Book and CD features a variety of reproducible listening maps and games, helpful teaching suggestions along with a full length version of this masterwork.The kit includes an Activity Book and CD plus the Discover the Instruments of the Orchestra Full Color Poster Pak.

Classroom kit
Grades 4-8
40 page Book, CD, 24 Posters
SHP 355
$39.95

SINGING TONGUE TWISTERS A-Z with CD

50 fun filled wacky warmups to improve pronunciation, vocal range and technique. This sing-a-long book contains musical tongue twisters of variable levels, read-a-long worksheets and a 50 track CD. Great chorus warm ups.

SHP 357
80 pages, spiral bound with CD.
All ages.
$24.95

Eyewitness Music

The most colorful, complete, comprehensive book on musical instruments. An excellent reference for the teacher or student. The history and workings of every instrument from earliest times up to the present is carefully explained and illustrated in great detail. 70 chapters such as “Making a Violin,”Indian Strings” Percussions, Rock Guitars. All the orchestral instruments as well as the workings of a pipe organ, piano. harpsichord. Chapters on wooden flutes and metal flutes, lots. Colorful drawings, diagrams and photographs. A must for any teacher.

SHP 333
Ages 12 through adult
$15.99

The General Music Teacher’s Calendar of Events

From the creator of our ever popular Music Activities Workbook comes this wonderful month by month calendar. There are reproducible activities for every month. Each month has songs or stories, word searches or games. Something for Labor Day, Father’s Day, Black History Day, Mardi Gras, Kwanza, Easter, Cinco de Mayo! An unbelievable trove of activities. You will never be caught short again.

SHP 305
242 pages all reproducible
$32.95

Rubber Band Banjos and a Java Jive Bass

A book full of projects and activities on the science of music and sound. Make a hip-hoppin’ java jive bass out of an old coffee can. Make a flip-flop organ out of plastic drain pipes. Put on a home-made tuxedo and conduct your own orchestra! Those are just some of the fun projects and activities you’ll enjoy as you discover the mysteries and melodies behind the science of music and sound. Step by step instructions and illustrations guide you through dozens of projects and experiments. Make stringed instruments, wind instruments and percussions also. You’ll never run out of ideas!

SHP 304
All ages
98 pages softcover
$12.95

Music Theory Made Easy

David Harp writes a book for anyone who ever wished they knew more about theory. Want to know about jazz chord changes? How to compose your own songs, how to improvise any style of music or read chord charts and know all the scales? This is the book for anyone who loves to play, or needs to know more of the basics. A great CD comes along to demonstrate the lessons.

Ages high school-Adult
Paperback 80 pages
74 Min. CD
SHP 332
Book-CD $12.95

The Music Teacher’s Book of Lists

Nearly 300 Lists to help music teachers prepare their students and plan lessons. Lists of music rudiments, theory lists, lists of composers from every country and period, lists of instrumentalists and instruments, popular music, dance lists A list of top tunes of every decade. Lists of classical music by time signature, lists of composers birth dates by month. Familiar tunes by meters. Countless useful lists!

SHP 296
260 pages softcover spiral
$29.95

Lifeline for Children’s Choirs

215 pages of practical information and useful technics for working with children’s voices. By Jean Bartle, director of the renown Toronto Children’s Choir. Chapters on the “Uncertain Singer”, the Primary Choir, Middle School Children. Recruitment, Organization, Rehearsing, Concerts, and Repertoire. A veritable Bible for anyone wishing to succeed at training a Children’s Choir.

SHP 285
215 pages softcover
$25.95

The Music Teacher from the Black Lagoon!

This is really funny! It’s time for music class with the feared Miss LaNote. A young boy lists all his fears about music class, all of them hysterically illustrated. In the end, she turns out to be cool and he loves the class. By Mike Thaler and Jared Lee.

SHP 211
Ages 7-11
32 pages- softcover
$3.95

COMPOSER FANDEX

A Field Guide to all the Great Composers!

Try This Handy Reference. Bookmarks - Bulletin Boards - A Great Gift Idea. Bring the world of classical music to your fingertips with this handy guide. 50 die-cut cards contain colorful pictures of the great composers along with facts and figures, as well as interesting stories and notes on their key works. A handy reference for the classroom as well as entertaining. Find out if Salieri really had a hand in Mozart’s death! Each sturdy page fans out like playing cards.

SHP 517
All ages
97 pages
$9.95