Xylophone & Other Barred Percussion: A Creative Sequence

Xylophone and Other Barred Percussion
By Tim Purdum
Paperback Book
156 pages

The second volume in the Creative Sequence series, Xylophone and Other Barred Percussion is a sequential curriculum of folk songs, original compositions, and creative student activities to teach melodic and harmonic objectives through the use of barred instruments. Organized as a ready-to-teach series of lessons, this volume is also intended to be a guide for creative teachers to design their own lessons, and incorporate barred percussion into their existing sequential curriculum.

Contents:
The Rationale for Barred Percussion
Aligning Barred Percussion with Your Creative Sequence
Mallet Technique
Melodic & Harmonic Sequence – Introduction
Melodic Progression – Bitonic to Pentatonic
Melodic Progression – Hexatonic & Diatonic
Harmonic Progression
Writing Your Own Barred Percussion Lessons
Implementing Barred Percussion into Your Teaching
Coda

Appendix:
Index of Lessons and Songs
Glossary
Bibliography