The In Tune Library Featuring Selections from
the Music Alive! and In Tune Book Series
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Books for Teachers
Welcome to our series of books for music educators, each with reproducible student articles, reproducible activity pages (including vocabulary games, listening maps, and enrichment), listening CDs, and detailed lesson plans based on the MENC National Standards. We are also pleased to introduce our new student books which include listening CDs. (Click here)
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| NEW! A Teacher's Guide to Jazz Then and Now by Adam Perlmutter
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$39.95 |
Trace the evolution of jazz from ragtime to the present through 13 lessons! Classroom plans explore the musical achievements and influences of the masters: Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Gerry Mulligan, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Jaco Pastorius, Terence Blanchard, and more. Includes an audio compilation CD for classroom listening. This lesson book for teachers can be used with or without the companion Jazz Then and Now student text (see below).
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| Music from Around the World by Brad Shank
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$39.95 |
Take your class on a musical journey around the world, learning about different countries, cultures, musical styles, and instruments along the way. This classroom resource explores the music of eight regions spanning Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. The included CD features musical selections based on the countries covered. Featured countries/regions include: South Africa, Mexico, Brazil, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, Eastern Europe, Middle East, India, and China.
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| Sounds of the Cities by David Simons
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$39.95 |
Take your class on a musical road trip to eight important cities around the country, exploring the unique sounds and artists that define them. Each section includes a reproducible student article and two activity sheets. Full-length lesson plans based on the MENC National Standards accompany each section, and all musical examples are included on the CD. Featured cities and styles include: New Orleans and Funk, Memphis and R&B, Nashville and Country, Philadelphia and Soul, New York City and Jazz, Detroit and Motown, Chicago and Blues, Los Angeles and Rock.
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| Classical Connections to U.S. History by Ellen Wilmeth
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$39.95 |
Explore United States history and its connections to Western classical music with this all-in-one resource. Historical periods (and featured composers) include: the New World (Desprez, Palestrina), the Colonial Period (Bach, Vivaldi), the Mid-1700s (Scarlatti, Gluck), the American War of Independence (Haydn, Mozart), the War of 1812 (Beethoven, Schubert), the Civil War (Liszt, Brahms), the Industrial Revolution (Ravel, Elgar), and the early 20th Century (Holst, Prokofiev). The accompanying CD contains excerpts of some of the featured composers' masterpieces.
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| Exploring the Blues by Various Authors
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$39.95 |
Here's a resource that will help you introduce your students to an important American musical genre. Topics include: Birth of the Blues, Early Blues Guitarists, Women With the Blues, The Blues Begin to Rock, Styles of the Blues, Bessie Smith, John Lee Hooker, and B.B. King. The accompanying CD contains 17 great tracks from blues masters such as Blind Lemon Jefferson, Bessie Smith, Louis Jordan, John Lee Hooker, B.B. King, and more.
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| Great Composers of the 20th Century by Jacqueline Wollan Gibbons
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$39.95 |
Here's a great way to teach your students about last century's great composers. Featured composers include: Claude Debussy, Arnold Schoenberg, BelaBartok, Igor Stravinsky, Dmitri Schostakovich, Aaron Copland, John Cage, and Leonard Bernstein. The CD includes selections from all of these great masters--right at your fingertips.
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INTRODUCING: NEW STUDENT TEXTS FROM IN TUNE and MUSIC ALIVE! |
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| New! YourSound Onstage - Student Text by Emile Menasche
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$33.95 |
Here's the perfect resource for introducing music students to the right gear, technology and techniques for optimal live sound! As technology for onstage performance continues to improve and become more affordable, new tools and techniques become more available. Here's a text on sound reinforcement approaches for singer/songwriters, vocal ensembles, rock/combo bands, small jazz ensembles, big band/jazz band, marching musicians, and orchestra, all in language aimed at young musicians and their teachers. Part I focuses on essential gear for sound reinforcement and Part II shows how to apply the equipment. The included CD-ROM includes mixing and sound-check videos, and demo software.
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| Jazz Then and Now - Student Text by David Lee Fish
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$24.95 |
This student text on jazz history traces the music's evolution from ragtime in the clubs of New Orleans, relating the work of the masters to popular music and today's jazz. Each of the book's 13 chapters covers an era in the genre's history by focusing on the people who shaped the music, from Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, and Jaco Pastorius to the greats of today like Wynton Marsalis, Joshua Redman, Pat Metheny, and more. Includes a CD-ROM with video examples of jazz instrumental styles.
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