Boom Boom! Classics!

Boom Boom! Classics! ;For Boomwhackers Musical Tubes Arranged by Chris Judah-Lauder ;Book and CD,48 pages Upepr elementary and middle school 10 classic themes from all-time great composers, arranged simply and effectively for use with Boomwhackers tuned percussion tubes and unpitched percussion instruments. These arrangements will provide students with a fun way to learn about and perform classical music. Opportunities to include movement and Orff instruments are outlined. Each piece gives the Boomwhackers tubes and other percussion instruments needed, teaching suggestions, related CD tracks, extension possibilities, full score (including the melody line which is heard on the CD), and copy-permissible "Visual" notation pages for use with students. The included CD has demonstration tracks with the instrument and accompaniment parts, and separate accompaniment-only tracks for performance use. Boomwhackers needed (each set of Boomwhackers or Octavator tube caps is sold separately): at least one set of diatonic (item 200346) and bass diatonic (item 200347); alternately, use 2 diatonic sets, with Octavator tube caps (item 200403) lowering 1 tube of each pitch. , Other instruments used (some are optional): xylophone; soprano recorder; hand drum; woodblock; shaker; cabasa; tambourine; guiro. , Contents: Turkish March from The Ruins of Athens Op.113 (Beethoven), Hungarian Dance #5 (Brahms), Slavonic Dance Op.46 #7(Dvorak), Spinning Song (Ellmenreich), Theme from The Merry Widow (Lehar), Rondeau Theme from Symphonic Suite #1 (Mouret), Hopak (Mussorgsky), Can-Can from Orphee aux Enfers (Offenbach), Theme from William Tell Overture (Rossini), Theme from The Trout Quintet (Schubert).