Let's Sing and Play a Dozen

Let's Sing and Play a Dozen

Activities for Orff Ensemble

Grades 3-6

By Michael Nichols

29 pages

This collection of tunes and arrangements for singers, recorder players and Orff instruments were developed to enable and encourage successful music teaching and learning. Each song was written to be played on recorder, but may also be sung. Teaching directions with suggestions for form and extensions are given for each piece.

The recorder parts use these notes: D, E, G, A, B, high C and high D. The enclosed CD-Rom has color and black and white visuals for use on interactive whiteboards or presentation stations. The CD-Rom includes:

• .tif and .pdf files of  each full music score
• each color and black and white visual
• each musical insert in the process list of each activity
• additional lyrics

For grades 3-6.

Contents:

• Breathe Gently
• Gonna Make Music
• Walking Song
• A Boy from Our Town
• Train's Off the Track (American folksong)
• My Cat Likes to Play the Recorder
• Wish on a Star
• Cotton-Eye Joe (Alabama folksong)
• Earth Healing Chant (American Indian)
• Rockin' the Night Away
• Recorder Snow Song
• Love Somebody (traditional folksong)
• New Recorder Rap