My First Patriotic Recorder Book


Book Description

Learn the basics of recorder while playing the best patriotic melodies of America. New notes and important concepts such as rhythm, ties and dynamics are gradually introduced, and attractive illustrations make learning fun. With a unique and easy-to-use approach that unites the experience of patriotic music with that of learning a musical instrument, this book is perfect for anyone new to the recorder as well as those just looking for easy-to-play patriotic melodies.




My First Orchestra Book


Book Description

Tormod the troll comes down from a mountain in Norway to discover music that will help him find his way home.




My First Classical Recorder Book


Book Description

Learn the basics of recorder while playing the world's most-loved classical melodies. New notes and important concepts such as rhythm, ties and dynamics are gradually introduced, and attractive illustrations make learning fun. With a unique and easy-to-use approach that unites the experience of classical music with that of learning a musical instrument, this book is perfect for anyone new to the recorder as well as those just looking for easy-to-play classical melodies.




Best Beginning Recorder Book for Kids


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Finally, a recorder book with appeal to kids that focuses on fundamentals taught through songs that young people love to play. Author Larry E. Newman (The Recorder Fun Book) created this book to be used as a first year beginning method or as a second year review and continuing book for the progressing intermediate student. The book is crammed with tons of musical examples, scales, arpeggios, songs, solos, duets and trios plus dozens of fun, kid-centered illustrations. There are play-a-long mp3s available to help motivate students and make playing fun. This book makes a great follow-up to The Recorder Fun Book since the first part of the book provides lots of review and the remainder of the book introduces new notes and concepts. With more than one-hundred pages, this book has it all.




Christmas Favorites for Recorder


Book Description

Nine Christmas songs arranged for recorder. Also includes 4 pages of Recorder instruction.




Strawberry Shortcake Easy Recorder Songbook


Book Description

Six favorite Strawberry Shortcake songs, arranged for easy recorder. Features big, easy-to-read notes, an introduction to playing the recorder, and clear, simple instructions for reading music. Titles: A Berry Happy Birthday * Jammin' * Springtime * I Love Berries * The Cookie Song * Straw-buh-buh-buh-buh-berry Shortcake.




A Celebration of Black History through Music


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Introduce your students to the rich history of African-American music with "A Celebration of Black History through Music"from spirituals to hip-hop. Featuring some of the most important musicians of each style of music covered, "A Celebration of Black History through Music" highlights how the roots of African-American music can be traced from the slave songs of the 1700s through hip-hop music of the 1970s and 80s, and demonstrates how this music has influenced and shaped the music of the world. Words alone will not do justice to any of the music described in this book. An enhanced CD containing audio examples of the featured music styles is included to allow your students to hear the music in the lessons. In addition, a discography, reproducible worksheets, extension activities, and a complete PowerPoint presentation are all included for use with your class.




Baroque & Folk Tunes For The Recorder


Book Description

Baroque & Folk Tunes For The Recorder is an unusual collection, containing over fifty pieces drawn from over 300 years of music. The selection contained in this book offer the player a sizeable scope of musical moods from lively, catchy pieces that are fun to rip through to those that are just beautifully melodic. It gathers together melodies originally written for violin or oboe, sung by trained singers and common people alike, Baroque and rag tunes, old and new tunes. Experience the joy of making them come alive again!




My Promised Land


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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR “A deeply reported, deeply personal history of Zionism and Israel that does something few books even attempt: It balances the strength and weakness, the idealism and the brutality, the hope and the horror, that has always been at Zionism’s heart.”—Ezra Klein, The New York Times Winner of the Natan Book Award, the National Jewish Book Award, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Ari Shavit’s riveting work, now updated with new material, draws on historical documents, interviews, and private diaries and letters, as well as his own family’s story, to create a narrative larger than the sum of its parts: both personal and of profound historical dimension. As he examines the complexities and contradictions of the Israeli condition, Shavit asks difficult but important questions: Why did Israel come to be? How did it come to be? Can it survive? Culminating with an analysis of the issues and threats that Israel is facing, My Promised Land uses the defining events of the past to shed new light on the present. Shavit’s analysis of Israeli history provides a landmark portrait of a small, vibrant country living on the edge, whose identity and presence play a crucial role in today’s global political landscape.




I Am Soldier of Fortune


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The founder of Soldier of Fortune magazine tells his own story, from Green Beret to trailblazing combat zone journalist. In 1975, former Green Beret Robert K. Brown found his true calling as the publisher of an upstart magazine called Soldier of Fortune. Brown pushed the bounds of journalism with his untamed brand of reporting—a camera in one hand, a gun in the other. He quickly established a worldwide community as his notorious magazine drew the avid attention of action-seekers across the globe. Brown and his combat journalists embedded themselves with anti-Communist guerillas and freedom fighters, often training and fighting alongside the groups they reported on. Brown himself accompanied teams to work and fight with the Rhodesians; the Afghans during the Afghan-Russo war; Christian Phalange in Lebanon; ethnic minority Karens in Burma; the ethnic tribes fighting the Communist government of Laos; the army of El Salvador; and the armed forces of struggling Croatia. Brown also sent medical teams to Burma, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, Afghanistan, Bosnia, El Salvador. and Nicaragua, as well as Peru after a devastating earthquake. In I Am Soldier of Fortune, the exploits of Brown and his veteran teams are revealed for the first time in all their gonzo glory, even as the US military, public, and polite diplomatic society sometimes shunned their endeavors.