Make and play your own musical instruments Pat-a-cake make and shake is a hands-on guide to making musical instruments with everyday objects. Anything from newspapers to balloons can be easily transformed into original soundmakers and musical keepsakes. The book and CD pack contains lively songs, stories and chants for children to sing and play along to. This must-have teaching resource compliments the holistic nature of an early years setting. It enhances communica...
The Main Dish explores the bond of sisters and the pull of fame. It addresses what happens when the success of someone eclipses one’s own success. Scarlet Williams is a sixteen-year-old violin prodigy on the verge of a major breakthrough, both in her musical career and in her social life. She wins a chair in the Summerset Festival orchestra and doesn’t hesitate to tell the world. Even her crush, Finn O’Neal, finds out. But then her younger sister Sadie gets cast in Young Gourmet, a nationally...
When Rich's girlfriend asks him to play at a local protest, he jumps at the chance. Unfortunately, the police show up, and so does his dad. What's worse, this happens near the anniversary of his uncle's death. Whenever Rich asks questions about his uncle, his dad shuts down. Rich sneaks into his father's office to get a guitar signed by Jimi Hendrix, one of his dad's most prized possessions. Before he knows it, Rich is on the side of a road and a beautiful girl in a tie-dye shirt is bending over...
High Plains Book Award — Finalist, Young Adult • MYRCA Northern Lights Award — Shortlisted • SYRCA Snow Willow Award — Shortlisted An aspiring teenage DJ must learn how to navigate life when people find out that she's the daughter of a famous singer. Fifteen-year-old Delilah “Dizzy” Doucette lives with her dad and brother above their vintage record store, The Vinyl Trap. She’s learning how to spin records from her brother’s best friend, and she’s getting pretty good. But behind her bohemian...
Songbirds: Seasons includes songs about spring, summer, autumn and winter, growth and change, and weather and clothing and is specially designed to help the generalist teaching music in the classroom. Songbirds: Seasons includes songs about spring, summer, autumn and winter, growth and change, and weather and clothing, which can easily be related to topic work. The songs appeal especially to young children and are short enough to learn by rote. No music reading is required and the CD i...
A varied selection of pieces arranged for solo flute and piano accompaniment suitable for both lessons and concert occasions. Songs from the shows mingle with classical tunes and folk melodies and range from the simple to the more advanced. This collection offers a companionable repertoire to set beside any course of flute tuition. Malcolm Pollock is a teacher of wind instruments and was the author of "Abracadabra Flute", "Abracadabra Clarinet Duets" and the companion to this collection, "Abraca...
A fantastic collection of songs and rhymes with familiar tunes, teaches children the numeracy skills they need in fun and memorable ways. Tom Thumb's musical maths - the book which put the fun into the numeracy hour - is relaunching with a fresh new cover. This wonderfully clever collection of songs and rhymes with familiar tunes, teaches numeracy skills in fun and memorable ways. Completely new is a whole set of content links with the National Numeracy Strategy. Everyone fam...
Developing Music Skills (Music Express Extra)
by Stephen Chadwick and Maureen Hanke
Primary music teaching resources for subject leaders and class teachers - engaging lessons, activities and games for kids. Irresistibly upbeat grooves, riffs and styles to wake up and shake up the musician in everyone. A complete resource for developing general musicianship skills and musical confidence right from the start. Perfect for Wider Opportunities schemes, this is also ideal for classroom teachers already using the Music Express scheme. The pack (book + 2xC...
This pack for Key Stage 2 teachers contains 12 complete recordings of music from different times and places, including British vocal music, medieval dance music, South American panpipes, steel pans from the Caribbean, Baroque orchestral music, contemporary rock and television themes, classical gamelan and Chinese percussion. The elements of music are investigated through activities which lead into and out of listening, and which take the older child into more demanding exploration. No music read...
After graduating from a Phoenix, Arizona, high school, aspiring artist Amanda "Zero" Walsh unexpectedly begins a relationship with a drummer in a punk rock band, which helps her come to terms with her feelings about herself, her falling out with her best friend, and her parents' personal problems.
This tender story of friendship, music, and ferocious love asks: what will you fight for, if not yourself? You Don’t Know Me But I Know You author Rebecca Barrow’s next book is perfect for fans of Katie Cotugno and Emery Lord. Who cares that the prize for the Sun City Originals contest is fifteen grand? Not Dia, that’s for sure. Because Dia knows that without a band, she hasn’t got a shot at winning. Because ever since Hanna’s drinking took over her life, Dia and Jules haven’t been in it. And b...
The first thing I hear is music. The first thing I've always heard is music. Meet Marley, an unassuming high school junior who breathes in music like oxygen. In between caring for his heroin-addicted mother, and keeping his scholarship at a fancy prep school, he dreams of becoming a professional DJ. When chance lands Marley his first real DJ job, his career as 'DJ Ice' suddenly skyrockets. But when heart-rending disaster at home brings Marley crashing back down to earth, he is torn between oblig...
SLAY do two things and they do them well: They play killer music and they slay killer demons.After Milly's rescued from mortal danger by the hottest band on the planet, she hardly expects to join them... But now she's headed to Tokyo, ready to track down a hellraising demon. And when SLAY are invited on tour with a super-cool band of holographic girls, it's Milly's turn to step into the spotlight.Except strange things start happening on the SLAY tour train. Suddenly it seems it's not just SLAY's...
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Once More with Feeling (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
by Buffy Vampire Slayer Musical S
Giles (to Buffy): "What did you sing about?" Buffy: "I, uh...don't remember. But it seemed perfectly normal." Xander: "But disturbing. And not the natural order of things and do you think it'll happen again? 'Cause I'm for the natural order of things." Since she's been brought back from the dead (for the second time), Buffy the Vampire Slayer hasn't quite been feeling her calling. Sure, she still gives the underworld a run for its money, but her heart just isn't in the job. Luckily, she's...
A raw, edgy, emotional novel about growing up punk and living to tell. The Clash. Social Distortion. Dead Kennedys. Patti Smith. The Ramones. Punk rock is in Emily Black's blood. Her mother, Louisa, hit the road to follow the incendiary music scene when Emily was four months old and never came back. Now Emily's all grown up with a punk band of her own, determined to find the tune that will bring her mother home. Because if Louisa really is following the music, shouldn't it lead her right...
'THE PUNK FACTOR is a kick ass story that will grab your heart in a fierce punk rock grip and not let go. I loved it!' Jennifer Mathieu, author of MOXIESeventeen-year-old Frankie is obsessed with what everyone else is thinking. She can keep up with the chat - from feminism to tattoos - but when it comes to her own ideas, it's not so easy to hide her lack of confidence. But there is one personal obsession she can't deny - her art student drop-out ex boyfriend Doc. With the help of her best frien...
Alone was the note Cade knew best. It was the root of all her chords. Seventeen-year-old Cade is a fierce survivor, solo in the universe with her cherry-red guitar. Or so she thought. Her world shakes apart when a hologram named Mr. Niven tells her she was created in a lab in the year 3112, then entangled at a subatomic level with a boy named Xan. Cade's quest to locate Xan joins her with an array of outlaws - her first friends - on a galaxy-spanning adventure. And once Cade discovers the wild j...
Abracadabra Saxophone (Pupil's book) (Abracadabra Woodwind) (Abracadabra)
by Jonathan Rutland
Learn to play the saxophone with popular pieces - lessons and sheet music for beginners The Abracadabra approach to learning through songs and tunes has set countless beginners on a clear path of progress and enjoyment with their chosen instrument. With carefully graded technique, clear fingering diagrams and concise theory explanations, this best-selling series is the ideal learning companion for pupil and teacher. An established and popular course offering a thorough ground...