Features:

•Maple Body Ukulele
•Assorted Colours
•Matching Coloured Bag
•Geared Machineheads ( Same as Guitars)
•Great Value
•Easy To Play

Ring for colour

Taygus C510 1/2 Size Student Classical Guitar - ZM003T

•Laminated guitar top
•Laminated back & sides
•Neck Nato wood
•Finger board & bridge solid maple ebonised
•Nickel plated machine heads
•Finish highgloss top, dark brown back & sides
•1/2 size model

A half-size version of the popular CG44, designed for children aged 5-8 years. Perfect for learning all the guitar basics. Comes with guitar bag & Learn To Play DVD.

Please note: The ages stated are approximates and do vary between each person.

Key Features:


•Spruce Top
•Catalpa Back & Sides
•Maple Neck
•Gold Butterfly Machine Heads
•High Gloss Finish
•Bag
•Learn To Play DVD
Available in Amber, Black, Blue Burst, Red Burst, Purple and Pink.Ring for colour choice.

Taygus VN Student Violin Outfit - ZM1550

These superb violins are made with solid spruce top, solid maple back and sides and hard wood ebonised fingerboard. The chinrest and tuning pegs are also made with ebonised hardwood. Fitted with black finished metal tailpiece with 4 integral fine tuners. All traditionally hand crafted by skilful instrument makers.
All outfits are supplied with bow and rosin in a lightweight case with accessory pockets and carry straps.
All TAYGUS violins are checked and adjusted prior to despatch.
Recommended as your first violin.

Available in 4 different sizes 4/4, 3/4, 1/2 and 1/4

Sibelius Student Edition

From school to home... and back again! Sibelius Student Edition is so easy and fun to use that homework won't really feel like work at all. You'll turn creative ideas into finished pieces in minutes - and it's so quick to make refinements, you should get better marks too! Sibelius Student Edition is compatible with the full Sibelius program - so you can take pieces home to continue working on, then bring them back to school again. Even if your school doesn't have Sibelius, Sibelius Student Edition saves MIDI files for use with all other music software. Whether you buy it yourself or ask for it as a present, get Sibelius Student Edition today!

Compose World Create
Compose World Create is an ideal resource for music exploration, composition and performance for a wide range of ages and abilities and it supports the music curriculum for both Primary and Secondary education.
A multi-track sequencer is provided which can contain musical phrases and rhythms. These phrases can be from the extensive sets provided with the program or can be created note by note in the editor. Music can be displayed as pictures, words, grid notation or stave. Compositions can be saved in separate files or exported as MIDI files giving opportunities to further develop the compositions.
Windows and Mac compatible

MakeMusic Finale: Songwriter
Bring your songs to life with the fast, easy way to create and print professional-quality sheet music.

Experiment with melodies: Click notes onto the staff and hear the pitches - drag them up and down to find the pitches you want. Play a MIDI keyboard and see the music appear instantly. Import and export MIDI files. Add lyrics with multiple verses.

Explore different arrangements: Experiment with more than 128 professional instruments. Select automatic drum grooves for different styles. Type a chord name to hear how it sounds and see its guitar fretboard. Add automatic harmonies. Transpose to any key. Try any tempo.

Experience your songs: Print great-looking sheet music. Hear your songs with a professional software synthesizer - no hardware required! Use Human Playback to make songs sound like they're performed by live musicians. Save as MP3 files and create audio CDs. E-mail band members, friends and fans.

Share the music: Print a professional-looking score, along with your name and song title. Add chord symbols and fretboard diagrams. Create up to six lyric verses. Transpose to any key. Add dynamics, slurs, articulations and more. Generate guitar and bass tablature automatically. Create drum grooves with notation automatically.

Why not recreate some of the musical brilliance from the stage show Stomp with our Funky Junk Yard percussion set.

Made from everyday items, and from listening to your ideas, we have put together a selection of junk yard instruments that create many wonderful sounds. Stored in a traditional dust bin, the Funky Junk Yard Percussion set contains the following:

•Steel Bin Drum and Cymbal Lid
•Yard Brush and Clave Striker
•Bag - o - pipes containing 8 pipes
•Ash Pan and Music Frying Pan
•2 x Pair of Guiro Spoons
•Plastic Drum Bucket
•30 Pairs of Rhythm Chopsticks
The set also comes with teaching notes explaining how each instrument can be used.

Great set for 15 players consisting of:

•2 x pair Finger Cymbals
•Jingle Sticks
•Wrist Bells
•1 x Gong Bell
•pair Cymbals
•Chinese Bells
•Tea Bell
•pair Krishna Bells
•Jingle Tap
•100mm Triangle
•150mm Triangle
•200mm Triangle
ALL complete in a handy plastic box with lid.

The Complete Digital Download Centre•Download unlimited music & video from the internet for free
•Automatic recording of music from your favourite artists/tracks
•Universal audio and video file conversion tools
•Legally remove DRM protection on music and videos

Sit back and let AudialsOne 4 entertain you!
AudialsOne works around the clock to provide you with unlimited music downloaded straight to your PC. Just select the type of music you like, an artist or song title and AudialsOne automatically searches the internet for the best online radio stations to record music - and even finds and downloads matching videos!

It really is that easy! AudialsOne automatically scans over 30,000 internet radio stations for the music you like, then downloads it to your PC ready for playback in the format of your choice. And with new ‘PerfectRadio’ technology, the quality of the tracks is second to none, and any jingles or DJ voiceovers are automatically removed giving you perfect quality music.

AudialsOne also automatically downloads any music videos relating to your favourite artists, and allows you to convert the audio and video files into a number of different formats.

Legal Disclaimer AudialsOne is solely to be used to record music for personal use from legal online radio and social radio stations only.

Words & Music allows up to three tracks for call and response, rounds, sound effects and multi-layered instrumental pieces. Children type onto `paper strips` in the pre-notation screen, stretching and shrinking them to change note length and moving them up and down to give pitch. This innovative music software, uses the rhythms, stresses and intonations of the spoken word to develop listening, composition and performance skills and the understanding of musical concepts. It brings Literacy and Music together in a clever, mutually supportive way.

• More than 200 sampled instruments or optional MIDI
• Work in major, minor and chromatic scales or create your own, e.g. pentatonic scales or ragas
• Traditional notation on treble, bass or percussion staves
• Edit the rhythm and pitch of notations directly

A versatile and stimulating musical compostion program that can be used by those with little or no musical knowledge or technique, or by more advanced musicians.
Features include:
Ability to experiment with over 70 different musical projects of varying musical styles
Includes a unique technique of using pictures and names to represent musical phrases
Capacity to save your composition for use in Web pages or other musical applications
Choose from 128 instruments
Select either a grid display or multi-track music sequencer
Numerous music controls including tempo and loop
Suitable for a range of ages through the use of four built in levels

Music Clean is the perfect tool for restoring your favourite music back to its former glory. Whether it's from old vinyl records, cassettes or MP3s Music Clean will remove crackling, hissing and popping from your favourite tunes in three easy steps. Burning them all onto CD, you'll have perfect sounds to take with you anywhere. Record Record audio by simply connecting your microphone, record player, ...

Features Back to the top•Open or save files in different formats including WAV, WMA, OGG, mp3 and more.
•Record audio by simply connecting your microphone, record player, tape deck or any other analogue gear.
•Remove noise such as tape hiss and clicks or pops on LP records.
•Process and enhance your recordings using reverb and equalizer or any other of the integrated high quality effects.
•Burn your results directly to audio CDs using the integrated CD burner or save your music to your MP3 library.
•Unlimited ?Undo' and ?Redo' function.

The powerful, easy-to-use drum machine!iDrum – a powerful and easy-to-use drum machine. It’s just as simple to use as a hardware drum machine with all the flexibility of a software-based virtual instrument
Key Features Back to the topNew Version 1.7 – New Features!
•Easy song editing – build beats and backing tracks faster than ever before
•Over 50 new kits including live acoustic drums, hip-hop and dance track sounds and more
•Create patterns in a variety of time signatures – 4/4, 3/4, 5/4, 6/8, 7/8, 9/8 and beyond
•Get more iDrum kits at the click of a button with iDrum Sound Portal
•Share sounds with iDrum editions for iPhone® and iPod® touch – take your beats on the road!*
Create and save an unlimited number of Kits (iDrum files) and with over 200 pre-programmed Kits included you can start to enjoy iDrum’s capabilities right away!

Each Kit (iDrum file) can have up to 99 patterns and 1 song associated with it. You can build as many Kits as you want, so there’s no limit to the number of songs you can store. You can even copy Kits to use them to perform more than one song.

iDrum also includes dozens of Part presets you can mix and match to create killer grooves!
Use iDrum by itself or as a plug-in for Pro Tools®, GarageBand®, Logic®, Ableton® LiveTM, SONARTM, Cubase®, Digital Performer® and other host programs. Supported plug-in formats include: RTAS (Pro Tools 7 ), VST, Audio Units and MAS. You can create beats from within your favourite music software environments.

* Sold separately on the Apple App Store
System Requirements Back to the topVersion 1.7
Platform Windows XP, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, Windows Vista 32-bit, Mac OS X, Windows Vista 64-bit

Description
Teaching-you Clarinet Skills is the ultimate beginners CD-ROM for anyone who wants to learn to play the clarinet. Starting from the basics of assembling your clarinet through to and including all the knowledge required for Grade I, this program will teach you all you need to know in a clear and friendly way. As you progressively learn the key fingering positions and how to read music, you can play along to backing tracks or have a go at performing a solo.


Features



100 lessons in ten chapters each with a printable score and PDF.
100 supporting tutorial videos so you can see exactly how to play.
Starts from beginners level through to and including Royal College of Music Grade I.
MIDI backing tracks with variable speed.
Real audio accompaniments with volume and pan controls so you experience what it’s like to play with other musicians or play the leading solo.
Looped practice allows you to focus on any tricky areas.
Fingering chart facility for all notes covered in the program.
Recording facility records your performance so you can review your progress.
Teaches you how to read and compose music as well as covering elementary improvisation.

Hit the right note with Teaching-you Piano Skills.

Teaching-you Piano Skills is an easy and enjoyable way of learning to play the piano. Learn at your own pace following the animated piano roll and access friendly help and tips every step of the way. Whether you are a complete beginner or have played before this program will teach you the fundamentals of piano technique, music reading and a selection of solos.

Teaching-you Piano Skills contains over 40 inspiring lessons, divided into two easy to follow Music Coach modules:

1 Play Piano
Play Piano is a wonderful introduction to basic piano technique and music reading, and includes over 30 solos.

2 Virtuoso Piano Trainer 100
A fast track technique builder software tool that provides an interactive multimedia environment where you can practise classic scales and exercises. With full tempo control, left hand/right hand separation and metronome this module is suitable for beginners and everyone studying for grades 1 and 2 piano exams.

Teaching-you Guitar Skills is an easy and enjoyable way of learning to play the guitar. Learn at your own pace following the comprehensive videos and animated guitar and access friendly help and tips every step of the way. Whether you are a complete beginner or have played before this program will teach you chords, tunes and strumming, hand positions, technique, and music reading.

• Expert teaching and cutting edge multimedia.
• Over 80 lessons and 100 video tutorials.
• Covers vital playing skills including chords, strumming and technique.
• Step-by-step help throughout.
• Apply your skills and perform songs made famous by great artists!

With ‘Teaching-you Music Theory Skills’, the rules and reasons behind musical theory are no longer a mystery. Whether you play a string, woodwind, brass or percussion instrument, you need to understand music theory to be able to effectively play and write music. As most examination boards require you to pass Grade 5 theory in order to enter for the higher practical grade examinations, ‘Teaching-you Music Theory Skills’ will get you well on your way.

Even if you’ve never played a note before, the essential building blocks of music are explained in an accessible and engaging way that will appeal to children and adults alike. Covering material up to Grade 5, this PC CD-ROM contains just about everything you need to know for each of the 5 grades, and is ideal for GCSE Music students.

Develop your understanding of scales, chords, time signatures and much more, and really get to grips with what all the symbols and terms mean. With interactive tests, you can check your progress as you proceed through the course, comparing your answers to those provided.

Hit the right key with Teaching-you Recorder Skills

Teaching-you Recorder Skills is the ultimate beginners CD-ROM for anyone who wants to learn to play the descant recorder. Starting from the basics of assembling your recorder through to and including all the knowledge required for Grade I, this program will teach you all you need to know in a clear and friendly way. As you progressively learn the key fingering positions and how to read music, you can play along to backing tracks or have a go at performing a solo.

Features



100 lessons in ten chapters each with a printable score and PDF.
100 supporting tutorial videos so you can see exactly how to play.
Starts from beginners level through to and including
Royal College of Music Grade I.
MIDI backing tracks with variable speed.
Real audio accompaniments with volume and pan controls so you experience what it’s like to play with other musicians or play the leading solo.
Looped practice allows you to focus on any tricky areas.
Fingering chart facility for all notes covered in the program.
Recording facility records your performance so you can review your progress.
Teaches you how to read music.

Description
Strike the right chord with Teaching-you Electric Guitar Skills.

Instantly sound like your rock heroes and master classic guitar chords with Teaching-you Electric Guitar Skills, an easy and enjoyable way of learning to play the electric guitar. Learn at your own pace following the animated fretboard and picking hand and experience for yourself the thrill of playing with a band that really rocks. Whether you are a complete beginner or have played before this program will teach you everything about classic rock chords, and how to sound like a pro.


Features



Step-by-step help – so you get exactly the help you need at the time you need it most.

Variable speed practice tracks – choose a speed that suits you and learn at your own pace.

Looped practice – to help with working on any tricky bits.

Music print out – print out the songs and play and perform away from the computer.

Over 100 chords that you can see, hear, arrange and print out.

Expert teaching and cutting edge multimedia

Play 15 rock tracks in the style of some of the world’s greatest rock artists.

Real audio accompaniments and full band backing tracks – to help you experience what it’s like to play with other musicians and to help build performance skills.

Recording feature – to listen to how you’re sounding, keep a track of your progress and play to your friends and family.

Description
Hit the right note with Teaching-you Keyboard Skills.

Teaching-you Keyboard Skills is an easy and enjoyable way of learning to play the keyboard. Learn at your own pace following the comprehensive videos and animated keyboard and access friendly help and tips every step of the way. Whether you are a complete beginner or have played before this program will teach you music reading, technique, tunes, chords, and solos.

Features



Expertly shot videos with full screen and slow motion viewing options so you can see exactly what to play.

5 contemporary band tracks in Soul, RnB, and Euro Dance styles provide lots of scope for easy improvisation.

Variable Speed MIDI Practice Tracks let you slow down songs so you can learn at your own pace.

Looped Practice – to help with working on any tricky bits.

Animated Piano and Roll show exactly what to play and what notes are coming up next.

Interactive feedback* tells you whether what you’re playing is correct or not, so you can play and perform with total confidence.

Print out facility enables you to enjoy playing away from the computer.

Step-by-Step help – so you get exactly the help you need at the time you need it most.
*Midi Cable and keyboard required

Description
The Hutchinson Music Reference Suite is jam-packed with more than 9,000 fascinating articles, complete with music clips, pictures, and quotes.

Explore the biographical entries on the wide range of people that have shaped the musical world through the ages, from conductors and composers such as Simon Rattle and Johann Bach, to tenors including the world-renowned Luciano Pavarotti.

Discover the different types of works such as Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, Bizet's Carmen or Mozart's Jupiter Symphony, and study the theory behind the music, including musical terms and notation.


Features



An easy-to-use search facility to guide you through the numerous articles available. Categories include: People, Works, Instruments, Institutions, Theory, and a Timeline.
Listen to, and learn about a wide variety of musical instruments from the accordion to the zither.
A timeline dating back to 25,000 BC.
Key musical selections are all brought to life through high quality sound extracts and illustrations.
Articles can be printed, copied to the clipboard and pasted into other applications, such as your word processor for personal use.
An interactive quiz to test your knowledge of music.
Supports the Music Curriculum at GCSE level.

Description
This interactive CD-ROM provides an entertaining and informative guide to the most glorious music on earth! Featuring over 60 composers, audio excerpts of over 200 works together with video performances, Classical Music allows you to look and learn about great classical music, it's creators or simply sit back and listen to it.

Features



Composers - a comprehensive biography documenting the lives of the great composers. Includes a list of each composers' works together with a play list of recommended pieces.

Compositions - includes detailed descriptions of over 200 familiar or famous pieces and an accompanying audio or video excerpt for each.

Performance - this section allow you to program your own concert performance. Choose a music type - and music period for composers - you want to hear, then settle down and listen to the show.

Timeline - this history rich section provides a treasure-trove of information regarding births, deaths, compositions, performances and other key events in the lives of great composers - for every year since 1659.

Features

Your guide is world-renowned conductor Sir Simon Rattle
Conductor's Notes
Photographic Diary
Original Composition
Interviews
Explore the layout of the orchestra in a game for the ears and eyes

10 Progressive chapters, 50 original pieces, work tips, scores and videos. Unique technology - this software uses a unique Music Teaching System, which pits the students in charge of their own evolution. An “edutainment” method that helps you progress rapidly. Equivalent to a two year course!

Key Features:
Learn at your own pace – Listen, train, record, slow down the tempo, focus on areas you need to work on (loop exercises) and ask for help
Playing for fun – Catchy melodies to play and listen to right from the beginning . On screen help – the score and dynamic keyboard fingering are displayed simultaneously on-screen.
Feedback – Your score immediately appears on screen and can be compared to the original.
Learning made easy – Has the option to work both hands together or separatly.

Tunes, riffs and progressive rhythms, videos, recording studio and digital tuner. Unique technology - this software uses a unique Music Teaching System, which pits the students in charge of their own evolution. An “edutainment” method that helps you progress rapidly. Equivalent to a two year course!

Key Features:
Learn at your own pace – Listen, train, record, slow down the tempo, focus on areas you need to work on (loop exercises) and ask for help
Playing for fun – Catchy melodies to play and listen to right from the beginning .
On screen help – the score and dynamic keyboard fingering are displayed simultaneously on-screen.
Permanent help – At any time you have access to playing tips, video sequences and illustrated technical guides.
Video clips – Watch video footage of different songs being played on the guitar

Interactive chord library, chord editing, 900 scale positions, grid editing and digital tuner. The indispensable tool for every guitarist. The guitar is a limitless instrument with countless harmonic possibilities. Beginners to professionals have new techniques to discover or practise. Guitar Universal Workshop is a tool used to discover, practise, create and innovate… An easy-to-use complete database, with various display features (fingering, staves, tablatures, chord diagrams). Universal Guitar Workshop is the smartest assistant you could wish for.

Key Features:

Chord Display – 2000 chord library. Tablature display. Staff display. Chord diagrams. Fingering display on the fretboard. Printing capacities.
Create your own Chords – Edit your own chords and add them to the database. ‘Improvised’ chord recognition. Creation of new chord combinations.
Digital Tuner – Enables you to accurately tune your guitar.
Charts – Charts editing and printing. Create harmonic sequences.
Scales – Every scale displayed in 13 modes. Visualise the staff and tablature on the fretboard.

Any easy and fun way to learn piano and keyboards at your own pace!Keyboard and Piano Method offers over 300 step-by-step lessons starting from basics such as hand position, rhythm and playing on black keys, and moving on to music notation, sight reading, scales and much more!

Features Back to the top• 300 step-by- step lessons
• Over 100 hit songs as accompaniment tracks
• Over 70 full-motion videos
• Progress Tracking reports
• Animated Keyboard
• Audio Tracks – Multi-track recordings and MIDI tracks to slow down or speed up the music.
• Guitar chords
• Digital Metronome
• Digital Recorder
• Interactive feedback
• Recorder

Product Description
Dance eJay for Schools turns your PC into a 48-track mixing studio with over 3,500 dance sounds to select! Edit samples in the FX Studio, create your own melodies using the Hyper Generator synthesiser and record beat patterns in the Groove Generator drum computer. Finally, add visuals using the Music Animator!


Technical Details
48-track sound mixer in Hi-Fi stereo quality
Groove Generator  digital drum machine for creating your own beat patterns
Hyper Generator - synthesizer with filter, echo and distortion effects
Extensive FX Studio for editing samples
Time Stretcher for altering the tempo of samples without changing the pitch

Percy’s Music Club enables children to explore some of the many elements of music in a selection of fun activities. The activities, each narrated, and with 3 levels of difficulty cover the topics of pitch, duration, tempo and dynamics. This fun title also features both an on-screen keyboard and activity for children to compose music, which can be recorded and played back. This Percy title, aimed at Key Stage 1 and suitable for unsupervised use, also includes a good selection of printable worksheets and an extensive teacher’s section.
PC: Requires Pentium 200 processor or greater, Microsoft Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 or XP, 16mb Ram, 16 bit colour. Mac: Requires PowerPC or greater, System 8.5 or higher, 16mb Ram, 16 bit colour.

Features & Benefits
Rain Forest Music is a piece of creative software that provides children with the perfect interactive environment to express their thoughts and ideas through the digital creation of rich multimedia soundscapes.
The four rainforest-themed creative canvasses, and the numerous visual and musical elements available to pupils, enable the creation of interesting, unique and personal multimedia compositions.

Many pupils just need the right opportunities and guidance to encourage their natural creativity and musical competence to grow and blossom…Rain Forest Music is sure to get your pupils hitting all the right creative notes!


Contents
Four rain forest themed creative canvasses
Many visual and musical elements
Simple musical structure
Introduction to simple notation
Musical teaching ideas for use in the classroom

This educational program is designed with fun packed music and listening activities to encourage children to respond, explore, experiment, express their ideas and use their imagination.

This superb program helps to develop many vital early skills. It is designed to:
Improve listening skills and lengthens concentration span
Enhance visual and auditory memory
Develope mouse skills and hand-eye co-ordination
Encourage confidence and self-esteem

Shortlisted for two ERA Award 2010 - Early Years Resource or Equipment - ICT and Special Education Resource or Equipment - Non ICT
A great auditory wall with recordable buttons - The Wooden Sound Wall houses 12 voice recording - talking Big Points.

•Learn sequences easily or play matching games
•Record animal sounds to make an animal wall
•Play memory games or use as clues for a treasure hunt
•Record the months to create a calandar
•Play back 30 seconds of sound on each Big Point
The unit is easy to assemble and buttons are easily removed to change visuals and recordings.

•Sound Wall size: 50 x 50cm.
•Includes 12 Big Points.

Three retellings of the nativity story carefully planned to lead children in Founcation Stage and reception classes through successful impromptu musical performances — perfect for an informal end of term celebration in class or in front of the parents.

Simple practice, performance, costume and artwork suggestions are all included in this complete performance pack which includes FREE performance licence.

The three settings • traditional Bethlehem stable • a magical toy shop • a journey through space

The Twelve Days of Christmas Musical is a sparkly adaptation of the famous Christmas song of the same name. It is a wonderful, exciting musical that really captures the true giving spirit of Christmas. Intended for children in Key Stage 2 (7-11 year olds), there are parts for all the characters from the song and many many more, all with amazingly colourful costumes.
Children just love the fun, catchy songs, and the CD includes backing tracks as well as incidental music providing opportunities for adding dance and mime to the production.

THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS is a magical, musical adaptation of the well-known nineteenth century rhyme of the same name. This heart-warming tale brings the magic of Christmas to life in a fantastically festive setting.
Intended for children in Key Stage 1 and early Key Stage 2 (6-9 year olds). There are parts for mice, children, toys, Father Christmas, reindeer and many, many more, all with amazing costumes.
The songs are incredibly Christmasy and the CD includes backing tracks and performance tracks as well as incidental music providing opportunities for adding dance and mime to the production.

This book offers a wealth of ideas for making satisfying musical instruments from everyday materials. It is aimed at children aged eight and upwards who can work on their own with occasional adult help. The book will include 12 practical projects, with step by step instructions and photographs. There are also sections on choosing appropriate materials, and design and decoration techniques. The book encourages children to develop their own ideas, as well as offering tried and tested design and technology techniques. The book encourages children to develop their own ideas, as well as offering tried and tested design and technology techniques which are guaranteed to work.

Description

169 classic songs arranged for piano, voice and guitar.

A wealth of all-time favourite songs for children, including Nursery rhymes, campfire songs and folk tunes, plus traditional games and activities all gathered together in one great collection.

Sample:
Ding Dong, Bell

Do Your Ears Hang Low

Doctor Foster

Dry Bones

Eeensy Weensy Spider

Fee! Fi! Foe! Fum!

Fiddle-de-dee

Five Little Ducks

Five Little Speckled Frogs

Found A Peanut

Frere Jacques

Frog Went A-courtin'

Georgie Porgie

Ging Gang Gooli

Going Over The Sea

Goosey Goosey Gander

Grandfather's Clock

Green Grow The Rashes, O

Hark, Hark, The Dogs Do Bark

Have A Little Dog

Head, Shoulders, Knees And Toes

Here We Go Gathering Nuts In May

Description

One hundred favourite children's TV and classroom songs in one bumper volume, everything from 'Bananas in Pyjamas' to 'Yankee Doodle Dandy'. Featuring a mixture of arrangements - some songs have melody line, lyrics and chords, some have full piano and voice with guitar chords.
Media-Sheet Music
Sample of content:
A Sailor Went To Diz

Baa Baa Blacksheep

Bananas In Pyjamas

Bear Hunt

Bobby Bingo

Bumping And A-jumping

Bunjip Groove

'C' Is For Cookie

Can We Fix It?

Can You (Point And Do The Twist?)

D.O.R.O.T.H.Y. (My Favourite Dinosaur)

Did You Ever See A Lassie

Doctor Knickerbocker

Five Green Bottles

Five Little Ducks

Flower Pot Time

Freres Jacques

Features

Award-winning software that explores and nurtures childrens' musical talents
National Curriculum-based
Designed for children aged 5-15 years
Key Stages 1-4, Scotland P1-S3
Four activities with more than 200 instruments
Sound Box, Chord Box, Beat Box and Tune Box
Young musicians' enjoyment and learning with MusicBox 2 is only limited by imagination!
Also suitable for children with special educational needs

Music Express Foundation Stage provides a two-year rolling programme of active, holistic, play-based learning that is imaginative, inspiring and fun for 3-5 year olds.

The book + double CD + CD-ROM pack provides 36 units divided into six sections which represent Areas of Learning at Foundation Stage:

Personal, social and emotional development
Communication, language and literacy
Mathematical development
Knowledge and understanding of the world
Physical development
Creative development

Within each unit there are four progressive activities which take children through the stepping stones yellow, blue and green, to the grey of an Early Learning Goal. This is a child-centred resource which starts from where the children are and progresses from there.

The pack includes two CDs containing 96 tracks of songs, chants, stories, poems, and listening resources.

On the CD-ROM there are videoclips for the children to watch, exemplar clips of practitioners using the material with their children (an unrehearsed, sampler of how you can expect children to respond), and videoclips of a range of useful instruments.

Also on the CD-ROM there is an extensive full-colour picture gallery of printable images, some of which are interactive. All the melody lines of songs are given as an aid to music readers. Single printouts of these and all the story texts may be made for use within the setting.

In addition, the CD-ROM contains a carefully cross-referenced directory of the Learning intentions behind each of the activities.

This is a resource which has been written for Foundation Stage Practitioners and assumes no prior musical knowledge or experience. No music reading is required!

Music Express Foundation Stage provides a solid basis on which to continue building children's skills, understanding and enjoyment of music. It leads directly into Music Express Years 1-6 which follows the English QCA scheme of work for music, and provides complete coverage of the Music National Curriculum of England, of Wales and of Northern Ireland and the 5-14 National Guidelines for Scotland

Music Express Year 1 provides teaching activities that are imaginative, inspiring and fun for 5-6 year olds.
The book & CD + CD-ROM pack includes:

CD-ROM
medium term plans
36 fully-prepared weekly lesson plans
(view the plans on your computer and print them out for your files)
teacher's videoclips
videoclips and picture gallery to go with the activities in the book.


CD
all the recorded music to accompany the activities in the book - performances, backing tracks and teaching tracks


BOOK
36 instantly accessible music lessons with photocopiables!


NO MUSIC READING REQUIRED
written for primary class teachers, this resource assumes no prior musical knowledge or experience.
Used as a scheme, Music Express follows the English QCA scheme of work for music, ensuring steady progression from one year to the next and complete coverage of the Music National Curriculum of England, of Wales and of Northern Ireland and the 5-14 National Guidelines for Scotland.

Music Express Year 2 provides teaching activities that are imaginative, inspiring and fun for 6-7 year olds.
The book & CD + CD-ROM pack includes:

CD-ROM
medium term plans
36 fully-prepared weekly lesson plans
(view the plans on your computer and print them out for your files)
teacher's videoclips
videoclips and picture gallery to go with the activities in the book.


CD
all the recorded music to accompany the activities in the book - performances, backing tracks and teaching tracks


BOOK
36 instantly accessible music lessons with photocopiables!


NO MUSIC READING REQUIRED
written for primary class teachers, this resource assumes no prior musical knowledge or experience.
Used as a scheme, Music Express follows the English QCA scheme of work for music, ensuring steady progression from one year to the next and complete coverage of the Music National Curriculum of England, of Wales and of Northern Ireland and the 5-14 National Guidelines for Scotland

Music Express Year 3 provides teaching activities that are imaginative, inspiring and fun for 7-8 year olds.

The book & CD + CD-ROM pack includes:

CD-ROM
medium term plans
36 fully-prepared weekly lesson plans
(view the plans on your computer and print them out for your files)
teacher's videoclips
videoclips and picture gallery to go with the activities in the book.


CD
all the recorded music to accompany the activities in the book - performances, backing tracks and teaching tracks


BOOK
36 instantly accessible music lessons with photocopiables!


NO MUSIC READING REQUIRED
written for primary class teachers, this resource assumes no prior musical knowledge or experience.
Used as a scheme, Music Express follows the English QCA scheme of work for music, ensuring steady progression from one year to the next and complete coverage of the Music National Curriculum of England, of Wales and of Northern Ireland and the 5-14 National Guidelines for Scotland.

Music Express Year 4 provides teaching activities that are imaginative, inspiring and fun for 8-9 year olds.

The book & CD + CD-ROM pack includes:

CD-ROM
medium term plans
36 fully-prepared weekly lesson plans
(view the plans on your computer and print them out for your files)
teacher's videoclips
videoclips and picture gallery to go with the activities in the book.


CD
all the recorded music to accompany the activities in the book - performances, backing tracks and teaching tracks


BOOK
36 instantly accessible music lessons with photocopiables!


NO MUSIC READING REQUIRED
written for primary class teachers, this resource assumes no prior musical knowledge or experience.
Used as a scheme, Music Express follows the English QCA scheme of work for music, ensuring steady progression from one year to the next and complete coverage of the Music National Curriculum of England, of Wales and of Northern Ireland and the 5-14 National Guidelines for Scotland

Music Express Year 5 provides teaching activities that are imaginative, inspiring and fun for 9-10 year olds.

The book & CD + CD-ROM pack includes:

CD-ROM
medium term plans
36 fully-prepared weekly lesson plans
(view the plans on your computer and print them out for your files)
teacher's videoclips
videoclips and picture gallery to go with the activities in the book.


CD
all the recorded music to accompany the activities in the book - performances, backing tracks and teaching tracks


BOOK
36 instantly accessible music lessons with photocopiables!


NO MUSIC READING REQUIRED
written for primary class teachers, this resource assumes no prior musical knowledge or experience.
Used as a scheme, Music Express follows the English QCA scheme of work for music, ensuring steady progression from one year to the next and complete coverage of the Music National Curriculum of England, of Wales and of Northern Ireland and the 5-14 National Guidelines for Scotland.

Music Express Year 6 provides teaching activities that are imaginative, inspiring and fun for 10-11 year olds.

The book & CD + CD-ROM pack includes:

CD-ROM
medium term plans
36 fully-prepared weekly lesson plans
(view the plans on your computer and print them out for your files)
teacher's videoclips
videoclips and picture gallery to go with the activities in the book.


CD
all the recorded music to accompany the activities in the book - performances, backing tracks and teaching tracks


BOOK
36 instantly accessible music lessons with photocopiables!


NO MUSIC READING REQUIRED
written for primary class teachers, this resource assumes no prior musical knowledge or experience.
Used as a scheme, Music Express follows the English QCA scheme of work for music, ensuring steady progression from one year to the next and complete coverage of the Music National Curriculum of England, of Wales and of Northern Ireland and the 5-14 National Guidelines for Scotland

Pupil's book + CD performances and chanelled backing tracks.

A comprehensive beginner's course in 20 learning steps, containing over 100 popular songs and tunes - from classical and traditional pieces to themes from film and TV.

The accompanying CD with this edition contains a mixture of violin and piano accompaniments, which are recorded on a separate channel to the pupil's violin part, so students may turn down one speaker to listen to their solo part, or the other to hear the accompaniment only.

Pupil's book + CD performances and chanelled backing tracks.

A brand new edition of the popular viola tutor with a fresh new look. In this edition, the accompanying CD contains a mixture of viola and piano accompaniments, which are recorded on a separate channel to the pupil's viola part, so students may turn down one speaker to hear their solo part, or the other to listen to the accompaniment only.

Pupil's book + CD performances and chanelled backing tracks.

With this fresh edition of the highly popular cello tutor comes an exciting playalong CD of piano and cello accompaniments, all performed by professional musicians. The accompaniments are recorded on a separate channel to the pupil's cello part, so students may turn down one speaker to listen to their solo part, or the other to hear the accompaniment only.

This unique, flexible resource can be used for individual and group lessons, and for mixed ensemble performances.

Endangered Species - Youth Music Foundation has launched a £1m initiative that will put specific musical instrument s in to the hands of over 5,000 children, Double Bass is one of them.

The Abracadabra Strings team have already created a highly successful series; now two more consultants have added their expertise to make a first-class tutor for double bass. Teachers and students alike will be delighted with this collection of carefully graded, well-known tunes which includes many duets and trios as well as solo pieces.

Of particular interest to teachers will be the tie-in with Abracadabras Violin, Viola and Cello; the double bass book contains all the same pieces in all the same keys, enabling students of the different instruments to make music together from lesson 1.

The CD contains performances of each item played on double bass, accompanied by the piano (the written music can be found in Abracadabra Strings Piano Accompaniments.) The Double Bass and Piano are recorded on separate channels; if CD machines have this facility, students can turn down either channel to listen to each instrument on its own.
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Simple and effective piano accompaniments for all pieces in the new Abracadabra Strings tutors for violin, viola and cello. Provides musically rewarding support right from the start.

One piano accompaniment book for all three of the Book 1 Abracadabra Strings tutors.

This edition of the popular trumpet tutor, Abracadabra Trumpet, comes with a playalong CD. As well as enabling the pupil to hear how the pieces sound, the CD is invaluable for ensemble experience, and offers all the fun of playing with a piano accompaniment. Ideal for home practice and concerts alike.

Abracadabra Trumpet leads the learner form the earliest stages to competence throughout the basic range of the instrument. The pieces in this book have been carefully selected to cover each aspect of technique in an accessible, inviting and satisfying way. Without sacrificing musical interest, the material has been graded to encourage good reading.

The accompanying CD with this edition contains a mixture of trumpet and piano accompaniments, which are recorded on a separate channel to the pupil's trumpet part, so students may turn down one speaker to listen to their solo part, or the other to hear the accompaniment only.

Now with a brand new cover to bring it in line with the other books in the Abracadabra series: Abracadabra Brass bass clef edition. This popular tutor book, a reliable favourite with teachers since its publication in 1995, contains the tunes that children will know and want to play. Carefully graded to take the student from the earliest stages to competence, it contains clear fingering diagrams and exercises to reinforce new notes and tricky corners. A valuable resource for players of bass instruments that don't usually 'get the tune'.

The trombone, baritone and euphonium are all on the list of 'endangered species' instruments identified earlier this year by Youth Music, which has launched a œ1m initiative that will put these musical instruments I to the hands of over 5,000 children.

Abracadabra beginners' tutors feature: carefully graded selections of songs and tunes; clear guidance on theory and technique; enough flexibility to suit individual teaching approaches; fingering diagrams; scales and arpeggios.

This beginners' tutor for French horn contains a lively mixture of songs and tunes from all over the world, with classical tunes and folk melodies, traditional tunes and pop songs, arranged as solos and duets. The book is graded throughout, from the pupil's first lesson up to about Grade 4.

Pupil's book + CD performances and chanelled backing tracks.

The perfect book for pupil and teacher - songs and tunes you will know and want to play, carefully graded to cover each aspect of technique for the beginner.

Abracadabra Flute leads the learner from the earliest stages to competence throughout the basic range of instrument. The blend of musical styles provides material which is inviting and accessible, and yet covers each aspect of technique. Without sacrificing musical interest, a careful rhythmic grading has been achieved to encourage genuine reading of note-values from the start.

Pupil's book + CD performances and chanelled backing tracks.

This excellent clarinet tutor has enjoyed great popularity since it was first published in 1988.

The material featured on the brand new playalong CD that accompanies this new edition is performed by professional musicians, demonstrating each piece on clarinet with piano accompaniments, enabling the pupil to hear how the pieces sound. Clarinet and piano are recorded on separate channels so students may turn down one speaker to listen to the clarinet on its own, and the other to play along with the piano.

Ideal for home practice.

Pupil's book + CD performances and chanelled backing tracks.

This edition of the popular saxophone tutor, Abracadabra Saxophone, comes with a playalong CD. The CD includes all the pieces played on alto saxophone accompanied by piano, for home practice and ensemble experience. The instruments are recorded separately to allow the piano accompaniment to be heard alone, by turning down one channel.

Discover the intriguing world of musical sound and the extraordinary variety of instruments that create it, in this new paperback edition

Ever since Stone Age humans used slabs to create sound, man has invented an extraordinary variety of instruments in the pursuit of new ways of making music. Many of the instruments featured in this dazzling collection of specially commissioned pictures come from specialist museum collections; all are reproduced with such clarity of detail that they give new insight into the fascinating world of music and musicians

Starting with an explanation of how sound is created, Music explores the three main categories of instruments: wind, string and percussion, showing how different instruments are played, and describing the types of sound they produce.

Music reveals how many familiar instruments have evolved from curious-looking early designs, and shows how some modern instruments are made. It also explores the fascinating rituals and traditions that lie behind much of the world's music.

Superb, real-life photographs of instruments, ranging from zithers and panpipes to electric guitars and syntesizers, offer a unique 'eyewitness' view of ancient and contempory music
See how strings vibrate to make a note sound; how an invisible 'column' of air sounds a pipe; which instrument resembles a peacock; how sousaphone players wear their instruments
Learn who invented an important new key system; how to master the bagpipes; why pipe organs have 'ears' and 'mouths'; why French horns are 'doubled up'
Discover how a vegetable gourd charms snakes; why tangled fingers led to the invention of the piano; why spiders add a 'buzz' to zylophones'; where reindeer toe-bones were used as whistles

A unique step-by-step learning program designed to help pupils understand the core building blocks or 'elements' of music: dynamics, pitch, rhythm, structure, tempo and timbre
With about 15 hours of learning across 375 interactive screens, over two hours of high-quality audio, 50 video clips, animated graphics, and a feedback system that tracks progress and responds to over 40 assessed activities.
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A wonderful, creative and playful introduction to musical concepts

Book 1 + Practise CD. Each track contains a recorder performance, followed by a backing track, played twice.

This acclaimed recorder method is now available with a practice CD comprising slow practice tracks and faster backing tracks for all items in book 1. Ideal for home practice as well as for classroom use, this learning CD makes the simplest tunes even more fun to play.

The 10 well-known themes in this collection of music by the great Classical composers are ideal solo repertoire for competent young recorder players. The comprehensive pack contains:
- solo part
- piano accompaniment insert
- play-along CD backing tracks at practice and performance speeds, and exemplary recorder performances

Recorder players familiar with the Recorder Magic Tutors will find that the themes match the playing standard of Tutor Books 3 and 4. Competent improvers will have something to stretch their abilities, ad the more confident 'solo stars will be able to impress themselves and their listeners with the more flamboyant items.

This great value pack includes music by Johann Strauss, Offenbach, brahms, Chopin and Tchaikovsky.