Teaching Resources
So You Haven't Practiced, Let's Sight Read - Book 3
By Joanne Burrows
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$25.00
52 piano solos for sight reading for Elementary to Grade 4. Graded pieces for students to learn in one week . One of three albums. Composed 2012
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- So You Haven't Practiced - Book 3 - sheet music
- For additional pieces from this album as instant downloads, contact keats@wirripang.com.au
| Study in A Mode, Grade 1- $3.95 |  |
| Elfin Dance, Grade 4 - $3.95 |
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ISMN 9790720133010
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Solos for Mallets - Book 1
By Joanne Burrows
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This is a beginner book of solos for mallet percussion. The works progress in difficulty from easy beginner material to later beginner works.
Compiled 2018
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ISMN 9790902253703
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Something to play everyday - Book 1
By Joanne Burrows
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$25.00
21 piano solos for elementary to primary grades.Quick-learn pieces that students can read, learn and play at home independently to increase their reading and playing ability and gain further confidence with their piano skills. And they're fun pieces which students enjoy!
Composed 2013
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Click on the BUY NOW button to purchase each item separately as a PDF file. You can also purchase the entire album as a single PDF document as the last option. Below is a selection of pieces available:
| Waltz for Taylor; $3.00 | |
River Song; $3.00 | |
| Chord Study1; $3.00 | |
A Mad Dance; $3.00 | |
| Waltz in A; $3.00 | |
Mayhem Made Easy; $3.00 | |
| Sunrise in a Dry Land; $3.00 | |
Full PDF Album; $20.00 | |
ISMN 9790720140186
Something to play everyday - Book 2
By Joanne Burrows
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$25.00
21 piano solos for preliminary to grade 4.
'Quick-learn' pieces that students can read, learn and play at home independently to increase their reading and playing ability and gain further confidence with their piano skills. And they're fun pieces which students enjoy!
Composed 2013.
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Click on the BUY NOW button to purchase each item separately as a PDF file. You can also purchase the entire album as a single PDF document as the last option. Below is a selection of pieces available:
| Madelie's Mayhem; $3.00 | |
Goblin Gallop; $3.00 | |
| Disco Jive; $3.00 | |
Cascades; $3.00 | |
| Square Dance Romp; $3.00 | |
Elephant Stomp; $3.00 | |
| Full PDF Album; $20.00 |
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ISMN 9790720140193
Something to play everyday - Primer Level
By Joanne Burrows
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$25.00
40 piano solos for primer level
Quick-learn pieces that students can read, learn and play at home independently to increase their reading and playing ability and gain further confidence with their piano skills. And they're fun pieces which students enjoy!
Composed 2014
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ISMN 9790720151335
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Songs from Australia
By Miller, Dixon, Aggett, Foulsham
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$100.00
By David Miller, Wendy Dixon, Cathy Aggett, Linda Foulsham.
Songs from Australia has been written as a resource for performers, teachers and students to assist in the development of individual interpretation and performance skills. Pedagogical, musical and performance ideas are discussed for 27 Australian songs. Each entry includes information on the following: textual analysis, performance and vocal techniques, musical concepts, piano accompaniment, phonetics, range and tessitura, pronunciation guide for diction, composition details, composer biography and available recordings and details teaching outcomes. A CD of MIDI accompaniment for each song is included. A glossary provides musical definitions and general explanations. Songs from Australia approaches each song as an entity. The interpretative and technical information provided for each song is offered to assist the teacher and student to build a successful performance.
The Songs from Australia authors believe that a singer cannot perform a song without a thorough understanding of the original poem; this philosophy has been their impetus. For this reason, the book provides the Textual Analysis before exploring how the composer has set the text. (The poems have been presented and vocabulary assistance has been included where deemed (necessary).
Performance Techniques have been included to encourage individual interpretation. They consider vocal technique, diction, phonetics, style, textual and musical information, pedagogy and exercises. The exercises provided are specific to the song; however, most have a wider application and will be of assistance in different song settings. (The Appendix lists such alternative uses.) The section, Musical Concepts, discusses melody, harmony, tonality, duration and form, (tempo has been considered in the body of the text when it has a direct impact on interpretation).
Songs from Australia is in no way the definitive text; it is anticipated that it will be used as a spring-board for further interpretation and analysis. In their own way, each of the four co-authors have been researching Australian songs; the Trinity College London Singing Syllabus for 2005 was the catalyst for this collaboration.
The selection and grading of songs follows the new Australian component of the 2005 and 2009 Trinity Syllabus. AMEB grading is indicated where appropriate. The Trinity Syllabus Australian selection is comprised mainly of art songs. The art song is characterized by the close relationship of text and music; a song exists because the composer has an emotional reaction to a text. In Songs from Australia, Horace Keats chose the exquisite words of the poet Blake; Carl Vine was inspired by Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Ester Rofe could not disregard the tragic plea of the contemporary Australian poet, Tom Rothfield, and in stark contrast, Mervyn Peake’s witty observations of humanity captivated Stephen Yates. The folk songs, such as Moreton Bay and Waltzing Matilda, evolved from the story-telling tradition and are in a genre of their own.
This is the first time that a book and accompanying MIDI file of this nature has been published on Australian songs. Studio singing teachers, school music teachers, performers and anyone interested in Australian song will appreciate this new concept. Each of the 27 songs has been recorded on CD by soprano Wendy Dixon and pianist David Miller and is also titled Songs from Australia and is available online.
A computer generated accompaniment CD included for all songs.
Listening and sheet music samples
- Monkey and Turtle and sheet music(Trad./Leek)
- Love Me Sweet and sheet music (Vine)
- Come Sleep and sheet music (Glanville-Hicks)
- Morton Bay and sheet music(Trad./O'Leary)
- Dinah’s Song and sheet music (Rofe)
- Bless This House and sheet music (Brahe)
- Waltzing Matilda and sheet music (Cowan/O’Leary)
- Lullaby and sheet music (Stove)
- An Angry Cactus Does No Good and sheet music (Yates)
- The Trouble with Geraniums and sheet music (Yates)
- Dreams at Eventide and sheet music (Keats)
- My Dark-eyed Acushla and sheet music (Keats)
- O Yellow, Yellow Sweet and sheet music(Tregaskis)
- I Will Build my House in the Water and sheet music (Keats)
- The Lamb and sheet music (Keats)
- Love’s Secret and sheet music (Keats)
- Plucking the Rushes and sheet music (Keats)
- Love Song and sheet music (Stove)
- Epigram I, and sheet music (Yates)
- Epigram II, and sheet music
- Epigram III, and sheet music
- Epigram IV and sheet music (Yates)
- Nature’s Changes and sheet music (Dixon)
- Columbine and sheet music (Keats)
- Sea Wraith and sheet music (Keats)
- The Stars Turn and sheet music (Sculthorpe)
- Evening and sheet music (Dixon)
Many of these works are available separately, see titles in catalogue.
ISMN M720041988 ISBN 1876829095
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Studies in Blues - clarinet
By Tony Wheeler
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$35.00
A new collection of 19 studies in the blues style, in a wide range of keys, exploiting the full range of the clarinet. They are musically conceived, with a very 'bluesey' feel, and range from relatively easy through to technically demanding. An audio CD comes with the book which has accompaniments for B-flat clarinet.
ISMN9790720101484
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Studies in Blues - saxophone
By Tony Wheeler
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$35.00
A new collection of 19 studies in the blues style, in a wide range of keys, exploiting the full range of the saxophone. They are musically conceived, with a very 'bluesey' feel, and range from relatively easy through to technically demanding. An audio CD comes with the book which has accompaniments for both B-flat and E-flat saxophones.
ISMN 9790720101491
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Study for Scales and Staccato
By Miriam Hyde
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$15.00
Study for Scales and Staccato. Grade 5It is not clearly in any traditional form, nor was it intended to be. It just evolved spontaneously as a development of the opening scale and staccato figure (which we’ll call A.)
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ISMN 9790720167824
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Theory of Economics, The
By Paul Turner
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$35.00
6 pieces for alto saxophone and piano.
- 1. A Cow
- 2. A Haircut
- 3. Ceteris Paribus
- 4. Buskers
- 5. Technology
- 6. Seasonal Variation
Composed 2022
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ISMN 9790673142695
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Too Cool
By Joanne Burrows
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$35.00
QUICK REFERENCE BOOK for all studentsThe Too Cool book was assembled by the author as a ‘go to’ or cheat book for students to quickly find answers bout the theory of music. Useful reminders for all students and teachers:
• Explanation
• Solution
• Definition
• Reminder
The book is not an instruction book, nor an exam preparation book. It is a book of helpful ‘tricks’, and ways of explaining, and understanding the theoretical concepts that underpin musical practice. A number of concepts are presented in a variety of ways to accommodate each student’s learning style.
Composed 2017
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ISMN 9790900979933
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Tuned In
By Michael Atherton
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$45.00
A personal collection of more than 80 tunes from Ancient and Medieval to Folk and World music to Renaissance, Baroque and Classical as well as the composer's orignal compositions. Some text for songs has been included because of the interdependence of words and music.
Tunes comprise melodic material that is manna for the composer or improviser who collect, adapts and hand on. This is my reason for collecting, arranging, composing and sharing the compilation, 'Tuned In'. ...I am a conduit for sharing what I have heard, what has been given, including my own tunes. Michael Atherton.
Compiled 2012
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- Estampie (France)
- Novus Miles Sequitur (England)
- Variations on the Plum Blossum Melody
- Woodycock (Anon)
- In Tempo (Atherton)
- O'Keefe's Prelude and Slide (Atherton)
- Raks Sharqui (Atherton/Nahri)
ISMN 9790720126166
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