Music K-8 Music Sampler Podcast

Here is an energetic Christmas selection for your older singers. The text is all Latin and we've set this in a 3-part voicing with part 3 being accessible to your lower, changing, and changed voices. It can also be performed as a unison piece using part 1 only. You'll want to be sure to observe the dynamics to bring out the most excitement in the song.

This wonderfully majestic piece was written to serve as an opening song for your Christmas, holiday, winter, or seasonal performances, but you can certainly use it as a closer or a featured "big tune" within a performance instead. It's deliberately modeled after grander traditional carols, but with the emphasis on the music of the season.

"My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean" or "Bring Back My Bonnie To Me" is a traditional Scottish folk tune. Our arrangement features mandolin and strings and incorporates a few chord substitutions for a unique feel.

This second series of nine individual Recorder Bytes breaks down the music into smaller, easier to learn segments for your students to practice and play along with. Songs include: The Wedding March, Old Joe Clark, On Top Of Old Smoky, Can Can, America, Polly Wolly Doodle, I've Been Working On The Railroad, When Johnny Comes Marching Home, and Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.

These eight great arrangements will give you strong programming across the genre of African American music. Songs include: Down By The Riverside, Follow The Drinking Gourd, Get On Board, Yonder Come Day, One More River, Go Down Moses, Lift Every Voice And Sing, and This Little Light Of Mine.

This continuation has a lot more music and fully orchestrated accompaniments. The songs are in order of increasing difficulty, divided into logical sections, including 9 Black Belt Degrees. Like the first volume, the songs are designed to be played and tested with the belt reward system. Songlist: The Wedding March, Old Joe Clark, On Top of Old Smoky, Can Can, America (My Country 'Tis Of Thee), Polly Wolly Doodle, I've Been Working On The Railroad, When Johnny Comes Marching Home, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Buffalo Gals, Aura Lee, Home On The Range, Rocky Mountain, Renaissance Dance, New World Symphony, Take Me Out To The Ball Game, Jingle Bells, We Three Kings, and Shalom Chaverim.

This classroom-tested, carefully planned recorder method incorporates a positive reward system in which students receive colored "karate belts" (not included) to hang from their recorders for each progressively more difficult tune.

You can almost hear the velvet voices of the crooners of a by-gone era singing this song. Evoking a sense of the past, it truly sounds like an old-fashioned Christmas tune with an accompaniment that includes shimmering strings and mellow brass. The gentle rhythm will have singers and audience alike swaying from side to side.

From the pages of Music K-8 magazine and Recorder Classroom, A Joyous Season For Recorders includes: Joyous Prelude (Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring), Finlandia - A Hymn To Winter, Saga Of The Three Ships, Quest Of The Three Kings, Fantasy On An Old French Carol, and Ode To Joy.

This collection has multiple parts, with part 1 using low D, low E, G, A, B, and C, and an optional part 2 that can be played on just G, A, and B. The parts work together, though either one can be used by itself as your concert presentation. We Wish You A Recorder Christmas includes: Pat-A-Pan, It Came Upon A Midnight Clear, Sing We Now Of Christmas, Up On The Housetop, Auld Lang Syne, and We Wish You A Merry Christmas.