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LISTEN TOGETHER Classics for Kids features a variety of classical music selections. Kids pick some favorites and listen to them with your family.

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This is good of course, in that it means that music can take flight easily in those who have an ear for it and they can move on quickly to the joy of music-making, both on their own and with others. But this same skill can become a disadvantage when those same students want to move into more complicated repertoire or advanced improvisational music-making. Here, their lack of foundation in the theoretical language of music will impede their progress, and it will be frustrating for already advanced players to stop and ‘go back to the beginning’ to pick up the language and basic theoretical concepts they need in order to move forward with their playing.

nd it’s also why it is so important to teach instrumentalists to sing the melodies they play as part of their learning process. This connects their physical response at the instrument and their technical understanding to their innately human ability to express themselves with their singing voice.

eep theoretical ideas tied very tightly to some kind of practical knowledge.

Creating Music Block Game–create a 3-note pattern and then listen to a variety of patterns to choose the one you created Creating Music Comparing Game–listen to two melodies and determine if they are the same or different Creating Music Block Game with Rhythm–list the block game above only with an 8-note melodic and rhythmic pattern Creating Music About Pitch–listen to classical music excerpts demonstrating rising and lowering pitch

12 Steps–Select the sound heard to help Alice (in Wonderland) up the stairs Orchestra Game–listen and identify the instrument played

BBC Seaside Activity—match sounds with descriptions BBC Mood Music—listen to music selections and match with a mood BBC Instrument Matchup—match sounds with instrument BBC Quiz—review of aural rhythm, style, and instrument recognition Carnegie Hall Listening Adventures:  Symphony No. 9 “From the New World” –Interactive Listening Map

Create orchestrations of up to 8 staves, and enter notes by clicking them into the staff or importing MIDI or MusicXML files

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The saxophone is usually viewed by the wider public as a “jazz instrument,” thanks to nearly one hundred years of iconography associated with that art form

most in the music community now recognize that the instrument is capable of performing in any musical style, from contemporary classical to jazz to rock to pop to salsa, and so much more.

Instead of solely nurturing one style of saxophone playing, students should be encouraged to make use of all of the wonderful potentialities of the instrument, so that they can enjoy any possible form of music making throughout their lives.