Classroom Resources

Meet the Great Jazz Legends
by Ronald C. McCurdy
Introduce a new generation of music enthusiasts to 17
legendary jazz artists who have enriched the world with their
incredible talents. Dr. McCurdy’s illuminating stories about the lives,
times and music of these great jazz musicians span the entire twentieth
century, from early New Orleans Jazz through the Golden Age of
Swing plus the avant-garde and jazz fusion eras - from Louis Armstrong
to Herbie Hancock.
Each Unit Features:
Important biographical facts and suggested listening
Concise story of the legend’s life with great photographs
Insight about the jazz era or social circumstances in which
the artist lived, or a famous performance venue
Fun activity worksheet

Discover the Instruments of the Orchestra
24 Posters and Fun Facts
Brighten up your music room with these attractive full-colour
laminated 9”x12” poster featuring the instruments of the orchestra.
Each instrument in the 4 orchestral families - strings, woodwinds,
brass and percussion - is featured on the front of the poster while
the back includes history of the instrument, “fun facts” and
representative musical works featuring the instrument.
You’ll find dozens of uses for this handy resource, including
bulletin boards, class discussions, activities and much more!
Includes: Conductor
Strings: Violin • Viola • Cello • Double Bass
Woodwinds: Flute & Piccolo • Oboe & English Horn • Clarinet & Bass Clarinet
Brass: Trumpet • Trombone • French Horn • Tuba
Percussion: Timpani • Snare & Bass Drums • Xylophone, Marimba & Glockenspiel
Cymbals, Triangle, Gong, Tambourine & Castanets • Harp • Piano • Organ

Discover the Great Composers
24 Posters and Fun Facts
Explore the history of the great composers from a kid’s-eye-view!
These attractive full-colour 9”x12" laminated posters present
24 composers from the Renaissance Period to the 20th Century.
Each poster comes complete with a photo or illustration on the
front and a short biography on the back including a list of
representative works and interesting “fun facts” that will
capture your students’ imaginations. You’ll find dozens of
uses for this handy resource, including bulletin boards,
class discussions, activities and much more!
Featured Composers: Bach • Handel • Haydn • Mozart •
Beethoven • Rossini • Schubert • Mendelssohn • Chopin • Schumann • Liszt •
Wagner • Verdi • Strauss • Brahms • Tchaikovsky • Grieg • Debussy • Beach •
Stravinsky • Villa-Lobos • Still • Chavez • Copland

Jazz For Young People Curriculum
written and performed by Wynton Marsalis
This multi-media jazz appreciation course based on Jazz at
Lincoln Center’s popular Jazz For Young People concert series,
is designed primarily for upper elementary and middle school
students. The curriculum explores core concepts including
improvisation, form, style and swing - and major figures in
jazz through accessible, interactive lessons that demonstrate
the exuberance, rich cultural heritage and definitive musical
elements inherent in jazz.
Included in this complete kit:
A 10-CD set (including one CD-ROM) of newly recorded music performed by the
Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and special guests, with narration by Wynton
Marsalis, that explores topics such as the blues, Louis Armstrong. bebop, and
Duke Ellington.
An in-depth Teaching Guide that leads educators step-by-step through each lesson
explaining jazz styles. musical concepts, historical information, and key jazz figures;
suggesting participatory activities and cross-curricular links, providing additional
resources, and integrating the National Standards for Music Education.
A set of 30 Student Guides featuring focused listening charts, fun activities,
historical summaries, biographies, and photographs that reinforce musical concepts.
A video that enlivens the classroom experience by taking students behind the scenes
and into the studio recording session. Produced by Jazz at Lincoln Center.

Accents On Composers
The Music and Lives of 22 Great Composers, with Listening CD,
Review/ Tests, and Supplemental Materials
Jay Althouse/ Judith O’Reilly
Accent on Composers is a 100% reproducible book with
listening CD designed to introduce students to the lives and
music of 22 great composers. It may be used either as
supplementary material or as a specific curriculum, in a
general music class or in a course in music literature or history.
For each composer, students will study the life of the composer,
then listen to a well-known and representative musical work by
the composer. There are 3 sections for each composer:
Biography: Including a portrait, phonetic pronunciation of the
composer’s name, interesting composer “factoids”, a chart listing the types of music
the composer wrote, dates of birth/ death and the era in which the composer wrote,
a time line listing world events during the composer’s lifetime, and more.
Listening Example: Information about a well-known work representative of the composer’s
style, plus a second-by-second guide to assist students as the listen to the CD included
in this book. The CD features recordings in a variety of styles from solo piano to
orchestral to opera.
Review: A student assessment featuring 1o multiple choice or true/false questions
plus one fill-in-the-blank bonus question.
Also included are dozens of pages of supplementary materials including:
A composer time line
A map of the musical capitals of Europe
A glossary of musical terms used in this book
Background information on 6 eras of music, from Medieval to 20th Century,
featuring the development of musical styles, forms, notation, and instruments,
as well as a listing of other composers not listed in this book and famous work
figures who lived during each era
Additional student assessment pages
Answer keys
Featured Composers: Bach• Beethoven• Brahms• Copland• Debussy• Dvorak•
Elgar• Ives• Haydn• Handel• Hensell • Hildegard• Joplin• Mendelssohn• Mozart•
Schubert• Sousa• Stravinsky• Tchaikovsky• Verdi• Vivaldi• Wagner

The Composer's Specials
Teacher’s Guide
Developed by Betsy Henderson
Now there is a practical and easy-to-use curriculum to
accompany the popular video series. This guide offers a
variety of lesson plans to accompany the video stories of the
six featured composers in the series and includes biographical
information, individual and group activities and creative listening
maps for music from the video soundtracks.
DVD's now available
Video and CD Series
Bach’s Fight for Freedom • Bizet’s Dream • Handel’s Last Chance •
Liszt’s Rhapsody • Rossini’s Ghost • Strauss: The King of Three-Quarter Time

An Illustrated History of Music For
Young Musicians
Available for: The Middle Ages & the Renaissance Period •
The Baroque Period • The Classical Period •
The Romantic Period • The Twentieth Century
Each of these books will leave your students with an understanding
of the different forms of music, the instruments, and the musical
geniuses who continue to enlighten our lives today. Each page is
beautifully illustrated with works of the masters and discusses it’s
subject with clarity and brevity. There are questions and interactive
pages in each book that challenge both memory and comprehension.
To help you understand how this music has developed, each of the
books in this series will describe a different musical period.
For each era, you will be shown the way the people of the time
lived, and the kinds of art and architecture that were typical of the
period. Important musical characteristics are discussed and the lives and contributions
of the major composers are described.

Great Composers of the 20th Century (includes CD)
by Jacqueline Wollan Gibbons
Here is an all-in-one resource that will help you introduce your
middle school students to the great masterworks of the 20th
century. Originally developed for Music Alive magazine,
each section features a specific composer and includes: a
reproducible student article written at an appealing,
age-appropriate level, reproducible student sheets featuring
activities and listening maps keyed to the selected compositions
for that composer, and a full-length National Standards-based
lesson plan. All musical examples are included on the CD.
Featured composers:
Debussy • Schoenberg • Bartók • Stravinsky • Shostakovich • Copland • Cage • Bernstein

Music Alive! Exploring the Blues
Here is a valuable all-in-one resource that will help you
introduce your students to this great American art form.
Each topic includes a reproducible student article, reproducible
activity pages (including listening maps, worksheets, and other
enrichment ideas). and a detailed National Standards-based lesson plan.
All musical examples used are included on the enclosed CD.
Topics include:
Birth of the Blues • Early Blues Guitarists (Charlie Patton,
Robert Johnson and others) • Women With the Blues, Then and Now
(Ma Rainey, Dinah Washington, Aretha Franklin and others) •
The Blues Begin to Rock (Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Eric Clapton and others) •
Blues Across America • Bessie Smith: Empress of the Blues • John Lee Hooker:
Father of the Boogie • B.B. King: Beale Street Blues Boy

Composer Bingo
Recommended for Grades 3-8
Cheryl Lavender
This fun, educationally designed game helps your students
learn the names and faces of 24 famous classical composers
Identification and reinforcement of 24 composers and their names
Development of memory skills
Includes 30 player cards, caller cards, and an instruction sheet
Also Available:
Note Naming Double Bingo
Music Listening Bingo
Instrument Bingo
Music Styles Bingo

The Complete Choral Warm-Up Book
A Sourcebook for Choral Directors
Russell Robinson • Jay Althouse
The main body of the book consists of 211 warm-ups...enough
for years of rehearsals. Most include information on the purpose
of the warm-up, teaching techniques and suggestions for use.
And they’re carefully organized into several practical categories:
Warm-ups to begin the rehearsal • Transitional Warm-ups •
Warm-ups with Fun Texts and Syllables • Chordal Warm-ups •
Warm-ups Featuring Interval Training • Jazz/Pop/Swing Warm-ups •
Just for Church Choirs • Rounds. Also included are dozens of photos illustrating
correct posture and vowel formation as well as chapters entitled:
Why Warm-up? • Warm-up Considerations for Different Age Groups •
Warm-up Before the Performance • Rest and the Voice

The Choral Warm-Up Collection
A Sourcebook of 9167 Choral Warm-Ups
Contributed by 51 Choral Directors
Compiled and Edited by Sally K. Albrecht
This incredible resource consists of warm-ups
for every situation and focusing on many different vocal areas.
The text is organized into several categories:
Beginning Warm-Ups • Breathing • Vowels • Diction •
Flexibility • Scales • Intervals • Intonation • Phrasing • Blend • Dynamics •
Minor Range Chords • Rounds
 

Voice Builders For Better Choirs
Emily Crocker/ ed. Janet Day, Linda Rann

This valuable resource is a must for every choral director.
The 140 warmups and vocal exercises in a handy Book/CD
format will help singers produce a free and open tone,
develop clean articulation and diction, improve resonance,
intonation and more. The enclosed CD includes demonstration
for each accompanied exercise for full choir, small group or individual practice.

Successful Choral Curriculum
by Nancy Telfer
Successful Sight Singing Bk 1
Teacher’s Guide
Vocal Edition
Successful Sight Singing Bk 2
Teacher’s Guide
Vocal Edition
Successful Warmups Bk 1
Conductor’s Edition
Singer’s Edition
Successful Warmups Bk 2
Conductor’s Edition
Singer’s Edition

Essential Elements for Choir
Essential Musicianship Bk 1, 2, 3
Student book
Teacher's book
Essential Repertoire for the Young Choir
Student - Available for mixed voices, treble
and tenor/bass
Teacher

Essential Repertoire for the Developing Choir
Student - Available for mixed voices, treble and tenor/bass
Teacher
Essential Repertoire for the Concert Choir
Student - Available for mixed voices, treble and tenor/bass
Teacher - Available for mixed voices, treble and tenor/bass
Essential Repertoire for the Concert Choir - Artist Level
Student - Available for mixed voices, treble and tenor/bass
Teacher - Available for mixed voices, treble and tenor/bass

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