Music K-8 Music Sampler Podcast

Yes, it's coming your way! As you would expect, this new volume has lots more music, sequenced by difficulty and designed to be played in a belt-testing environment. 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 would make a great opening song for your seasonal performances, but it will certainly add pizzazz to any part of your program, including the ending. It builds and soars, just as you would expect, with an ongoing pulse that keeps the musical excitement high.

Our older singers had a very good time with this unique pop hybrid tune. It requires a bit of musical finesse to pull it off well, and the challenge is fun.

Other than the words "we sing," the entire piece is in Latin, so a legitimate choral approach should be taken for pronunciation. This song uses mixed meter but is very easy to understand, and the instrumentation is orchestral with strings, brass, percussion, and woodwinds.

Often presented as a more robust piece, Teresa's arrangement of this old folk carol is gentle and easy with a poignant, almost haunting style. Besides the lovely instrumental accompaniment tracks, special rehearsal tracks that isolate the parts are also included with the recording for help in teaching them.

The collection features six favorite carols and Christmas tunes in settings designed for featuring young bell players. Each song has a part that uses the diatonic bells, though some songs have extra, yet compatible parts for chromatic one-octave bells. Songs include: Joy To The World, Carol Of The Drum, I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day, O Come All Ye Faithful, Good King Wenceslas, and Deck The Halls.

The simple script and short, easy-to-remember songs are specially written for young children to learn and sing. Though the program is brief - approximately 15 minutes - the heart-felt message will last a lifetime. This endearing little musical features the following songs: Our Wonderful Story, Where Do We Fit In?, God Is On Our Side, Silent Night, and Hear The Angels Sing!

Centering around familiar Christmas traditions, the music and script help to bring the Christmases of yesteryear to your students and audience. Songs include: Christmas Fanfare, Deck The Halls, An Old-Fashioned Christmas, O Christmas Tree, Santa Claus, Jingle Bells, We Wish You A Merry Christmas, and O How Joyfully.

Throughout our history we have taken pride in giving you poignant, powerful songs to sing at your Veterans Day performances, and from the letters we get from teachers, these songs are much appreciated. Songs include: Eleven Eleven March, Thank A Vet, Those Who Served, For The Good Of The Many, In Service Of Our Country, Proud Of Our Veterans, and We Will Not Forget.

“We Love Our Grandparents” is a high-energy, four-on-the-floor trance tune with simple, repetitive lyrics for your students to share how they feel about their grandparents.

To commemorate this special 200th anniversary of The Star-Spangled Banner, we have created a dramatic new 3-part mixed setting of America's anthem.

Not only is this joyful swing tune the perfect way to begin a holiday program, it's also a wonderful way to feature your bell players. We have provided written parts for Bells 1, which uses the whole C scale; Bells 2, which uses only C, D, G, and C'; and jingle bells. Add movement and you have a real showcase on your hands!

This song includes a versatile setting that will let you mix and match all sorts of instruments, including kazoos, Boomwhackers®, small percussion, and, if you prefer, voices.

Subtitled "A Suite For Recorders and Orchestra," this special suite started life in our acclaimed Recorder Classroom magazine. It consists of three movements: Polar Bear, Whale, and Tiger, each of which works great by itself.

Properly warming up young singers can be tough, especially when you have a limited amount of time with them and when your singers are easily distracted. By popular demand, Anne and Teresa have created a fundamental set of warm-ups designed with these challenges in mind.

Kids can find tons of great music from Music K-8 magazine that they can download legally for only $0.99/song or $1.98/video.

Teresa Jennings created this touching new song that uses snowflakes as a metaphor for the fragility and wonder of existence.

A sample of the music found in Music K-8, Vol. 24, No. 2.

A sample of the music found in Music K-8, Vol. 24, No. 2.

A sample of the music found in Music K-8, Vol. 24, No. 2.