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Book 1 by Roger Sams and Beth Ann Hepburn.
“Purposeful Pathways: Possibilities for the Elementary Music Room, Book 1” is an extensive collection of developmentally sequenced lessons for learning about music by making music. This collection incorporates strategies from Dalcroze Eurhythmics, Kod·ly and Orff Schulwerk. Each of the thirty lessons included is actually a collection of lessons or pathways, giving teachers many choices for how to work with the material. The possibilities in this book can be selected and shaped to work effectively in diverse situations. The teacher chooses which pathways will be explored and in what sequence they will be used. This flexible design makes this resource helpful to all teachers, first-year to seasoned educators!
Book 1 comes with online access to PDF files of hands-on manipulatives to be reproduced for classroom use.
Electronic visuals (SMART Notebook files, which can be used even if you don’t use a SMART Board with free downloadable software) are available on the companion CD-ROM as an optional additional purchase. This CD-ROM companion to “Purposeful Pathways: Possibilities for the Elementary Music Classroom, Book 1” contains three formats: Microsoft® PowerPoint®, SMART Notebook™, and Promethean ActivInspire.
Rhythmic concepts organized & covered in Book 1 include: steady beat, quarter note, two eighth notes, quarter rest, sol, mi, la and do.
Lessons:
Name Riddle
Burnie Bee
Cinderella
Engine, Engine Number Nine
Mince Pie Fly
Cobbler, Cobbler
Young Animals
Rain on the Green Grass
The Mill Wheel
Barber, Barber Shave a Pig
Simple Simon
Shoemaker’s Dance
Bubble, Bubble, Bubble!
Sneaky Fox
Duérmete, Mi Niña
High in the Pine Tree
Davy Dumpling
Humpty Dumpty
Jelly in the Bowl
We Fish
Hickory Dickory Dare
Horsing Around
Charlie in the Tub
Johnny’s Gone to Tea
Pease Porridge Hot
Wee Willie Winkie
Apple Tree
Sing & Dance Together
Little Sally Walker
Counting Out Rhymes
Garden Gate
Book 2 by Roger Sams and Beth Ann Hepburn.
Edited by Jill Trinka.
“Purposeful Pathways: Possibilities for the Elementary Music Room, Book 2” is an extensive collection of developmentally sequenced lessons for learning about music by making music. This collection incorporates strategies from Dalcroze Eurhythmics, Kodaly and Orff Schulwerk. Each of the 36 lessons included is actually a collection of lessons or pathways, giving teachers many choices for how to work with the material. The possibilities in this book can be selected and shaped to work effectively in diverse situations. The teacher chooses which pathways will be explored and in what sequence they will be used. This flexible design makes this resource helpful to all teachers, first-year to seasoned educators!
Book 2 comes with online access to PDF files of hands-on manipulatives to be reproduced for classroom use.
Electronic visuals (SMART Notebook files, which can be used even if you don’t use a SMART Board with free downloadable software) are available on the companion CD-ROM as an optional additional purchase. This CD-ROM companion to “Purposeful Pathways: Possibilities for the Elementary Music Classroom, Book 2” contains three formats: Microsoft® PowerPoint®, SMART Notebook™, and Promethean ActivInspire.
Rhythmic concepts covered in Book 2 include:
steady beat, quarter note, quarter rest, two eighth notes, half note, half rest, dotted half note, whole note, whole rest, sixteenth notes
Pitch inventory covered in Book 2:
do, re, mi, so, la, do’
Lessons:
The King’s Land
Little Robin Redbreast
Witch, Witch
I See the Moon
Hipperty, Clipperty, Clackerty, Bang
Closet Key
Frog in the Meadow
Hop Old Squirrel
Queen, Queen Caroline
Christopher Crump
Needle and Thread
World of Books
Let Us Chase the Squirrel
El Zapatero
I’m Gonna Sing
Old Blue
Old Mother Brown
Bow Wow Wow
Here Comes a Bluebird
I’m an Acorn
Winter Walking
Synthesis and Assimilation #1
Zudio
Rocky Mountain
Great Big House
Whenever I Go Out to Walk
Deta, Deta
Synthesis and Assimilation #2
Fais Dodo
Dipidu
Chick, Chick, Chatterman
Piccadilly Travel
Sixteenth Note Percussion
Tideo
Morning Bells
Little Tommy Tinker
Book 3 by Roger Sams and BethAnn Hepburn.
Edited by Jill Trinka
“Purposeful Pathways: Possibilities for the Elementary Music Room, Book 3″ is an extensive collection of curricular materials for learning music through active music making. Based on the philosophies of Orff, Kodály, and Dalcroze, this collection of developmentally sequenced learning activities offers elementary music educators diverse choices for how to present folk song and original material, including lessons in singing, literacy, movement, improvisation, composition and instrumental ensemble. Rhythmic concepts covered in Book 3 include quarter note, quarter rest, two eighth notes, half note, half rest, dotted half note, whole note, whole rest, sixteenth notes dotted quarter eighth rhythm and variations, eighth rest, and anacrusis. Pitch inventory covered in Book 3 is extended do hexatonic and la hexatonic. Includes a CD-ROM of PDF files for printing hands-on manipulatives.
Book 3 comes with online access to PDF files of hands-on manipulatives to be reproduced for classroom use.
Electronic visuals (SMART Notebook files, which can be used even if you don’t use a SMART Board with free downloadable software) are available on the companion CD-ROM as an optional additional purchase. Also included on the CD3 are PowerPoint Visuals and Promethean ActivInspire files. This CD-ROM contains all of the developmentally sequenced electronic visuals to support music lessons in Purposeful Pathways, Book 3. They are provided in three formats: Microsoft® PowerPoint®, SMART Notebook™, and Promethean ActivInspire.
Rhythm content:
quarter note
2 eighth notes
quarter rest
half note
half rest
dotted half note
4 sixteenth notes
whole note
whole rest
dotted quarter note
single eighth note
3 eighth notes
quarter note followed by eighth note
dotted quarter rest
2 eighth notes and eighth rest
Melody content:
So, la, do re mi fa so la do’ (extended do Hexatonic),
la ti do re mi so la (la Hexatonic).
Lessons
Jeremiah, Blow the Fire
Going to the Market
Fishing Song
Sandy McNab
Captain Tickle and His Nickel
Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater
Rhythm Rounds
The Pelican Chorus
Birds of a Feather
Phoebe in Her Petticoat
Up-Hill
I’ve Been to Harlem
Old Brass Wagon
Shake Those ‘Simmons Down
What Makes a Wildcat Wild?
Noisy Rooster
Sing All the Day
Scotland’s Burning
Deep and Wide
Our Old Sow
Al Citron
Chatter with the Angels
The Kilkenny Cats
Come to the Fair
Alabama Gal
Never Sleep Late Anymore
Hill an’ Gully Rider
How Do You Do?
I Got a Letter this Morning
Evening
Hey There!
My Good Old Man
La Pentachord Round
Birch Tree
Can You Plant Your Cabbage So?
Seagull, Seagull
Big Bunch of Roses
Cockles and Mussels
Boots of Shining Leather
Book 4 By Roger Sams and BethAnn Hepburn
Edited by Jill Trinka
“Purposeful Pathways: Possibilities for Elementary and Middle School Music Classrooms” is an extensive collection of curricular materials for learning music by making music. Based on the philosophies of Orff Schulwerk, Kodály, and eurhythmics, this collection of developmentally sequenced learning activities offers elementary and middle school general music educators diverse choices for how to present folk song from diverse cultures and original material, including lessons in singing, literacy, movement, improvisation, composition, and instrumental ensemble. Each lesson is a collection of learning pathways, to be selected by the teacher, that unfold over time offering possibilities for differentiated instruction and flexibility in diverse classroom settings. This flexible design makes this resource helpful to all teachers, first year to seasoned educators!
Printable manipulatives for composition activities are available as a free digital download with the purchase of the book.
Electronic visuals (in SMART Notebook, Promethean ActivInspire, and PowerPoint formats) are available as an additional purchase in CD-ROM and digital download formats.
Purposeful Pathways 4 Curricular Content
Rhythm Content:
Simple Meter:
quarter note
two eighth notes
half note
dotted half note
whole note
dotted quarter/eighth note pattern
eighth/dotted quarter note pattern
syncopation
sixteenth notes
all possible combinations of eighth notes and sixteenth notes
quarter rest
eighth rest
half rest
whole rest
Compound Meter:
dotted quarter note
three eighth notes
quarter/eighth note pattern
dotted half note
dotted quarter rest
Melody Content:
Do and La Centered Diatonic Scales
Harmony Content:
Functional Harmony (I-IV-V)
Lessons:
Sing Together, Joyfully
Compound Meter Piece for Dancing
Fishpole Song
Synthesis and Assimilation
Proverb Play
Old House
Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill
Red are Strawberries
Ol’ Texas
Ach De Lieber Augustin
What a Goodly Thing
Boll Weevil (The)
Diddle Fiddle
Two Sixteenth Eighth
Above the Plain (Ifca’s Castle)
Sourwood Mountain
Play Your Drum
Clementine
Cottleston Pie
King Kong Kitchie
Weevily Wheat
I’m Gonna Sing When the Spirit Says Sing
Ritsch, Ratsch, Fi-Di-Boom-Boom-Boom
Our Gallant Ship
My Hat It Has Three Corners
Sixteenth Dotted Eighth
Love Somebody
Cape Cod Girls
This Little Light of Mine
I Let Her Go-Go
This Train is Bound for Glory
Riding in a Buggy
Donkey Riding
Around the World
Tingalayo
My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean
Bright Morning Sun
Purposeful Pathways is endorsed by leading experts in all three pedagogical approaches utilized. Here’s what the experts are saying:
“This book is a collection of music lessons to introduce beginning students to the excitement of discovering and learning music by making it. The variety of musical pathways presented becomes a road to rhythmic and melodic literacy, with clearly mapped goals and objectives. The journey is enriched by the variety of musical elements and behaviors included, providing many choices for exploring each of the 30 examples in the collection. Movement ideas enhance opportunities for students to actively explore musical material.
The expert guidance of two experienced author/teachers is evident on every page, and is highlighted in special inserts called Teacher Talk. Icons, charts, and drawings add to the playful presentation of the material ñ many of which are available in an optional CD-ROM. The carefully selected collection of songs and rhymes provides artful early encounters with music, establishing a solid foundation for future musical experiences.”
-Jane Frazee
Founding Director, Graduation Programs in Music Education, University of St. Thomas
Past President, American Orff-Schulwerk Association
“Purposeful Pathways provides the music specialist with valuable tools to integrate singing, playing of instruments, and creative and purposeful movement. While these lessons can be used across many elementary grade levels, Roger and BethAnn have created movement ideas for young children to imitate animals or characters and explore rhythmic pathways, and movement for later grades that coordinate specific durations or rhythmic ostinato patterns with the text and music. This book would be helpful not only for new teachers, but for experienced music educators interested in learning how to integrate our learning approaches.”
-R. J. David Frego, Ph.D.
Chair of the Department of Music, The University of Texas at San Antonio
Past President, Dalcroze Society of America
“Whimsy all but leaps off the pages of this wonderful collection of creative activities for developing music reading, improvisation, composition, and instrument playing skills. Fresh melodies composed to time-honored rhymes are paired with clever ostinati leading to simple and effective instrumental arrangements incorporating movement and song. The Teacher Talk sections contain gems and jewels of advice that can only come from extensive experience with children. I am excited to use many of the ideas with my education majors! You will certainly be successful with these pathways in your classroom!”
-Jill Trinka, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor, Coastal Carolina University
Past President, American Association of Kod·ly Educators
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