Beatin' Path Publications

We are a friendly, home-based, no frills, publishing house dedicated to high quality music for teachers trained in Orff Schulwerk as well as classroom and general music teachers. Each publication is backed by years of hands-on, in-the-classroom experience, and has thoroughly proven its worth as valuable material for elementary and middle school children, at home, in church and at school.

Brent, Rob, Michael

Let's Sing and Play a Dozen (Book/CD) ($19.95)

Michael R. Nichols

With a dozen songs and activites for music classes in grades 3 - 6, this new collection for singers, recorder players, and orff instruments is a great resource for music teachers.

These tunes and arrangements 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. The songs have been used in many classrooms and workshops with much delight and discovery and will provide you, the teacher, with useful tools as you teach your students.

Let's Sing and Play a Dozen includes lesson plans, objectives, and a CD-ROM with full color visuals in .jpg and .tif formats for your interactive whiteboard or for making transparencies. Two versions of each visual are included, one with rich color for your whiteboard, the other black and white for transparencies. Full scores are included in .tif and .pdf formats. Each full score can be imported into your presentation software or printed using one of these formats if you wish to emphasize note reading.

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Spring Songs

(Book/CD) - Music from Around theWorld for Orff Ensemble

($19.95)

Robert A. Amchin

Beautiful songs and instrumental pieces about Spring from around the world. Lesson plans and teaching suggestions are included for each song. A perfect resource for every elementary music teacher!

Spring arrives: birds begin to nest; flowers bloom; warmer breezes blow through our homes. Spring colors and leaves mark the greening earth for planting and renewed life after winter. This musical journey of songs, poems, and activities offers a tapestry of images for classes to move from “winter revels” to “summer celebrations.”

Spring Songs includes lesson plans, objectives, and a CD-ROM with full color visuals in .jpg and .tif formats for your interactive whiteboard or for making transparencies. Two versions of each visual are included, one with rich color for your whiteboard, the other black and white for transparencies. Full scores are included in .tif and .pdf formats. Each full score can be imported into your presentation software or printed using one of these formats if you wish to emphasize note reading.

Look at a preview or a Full-Color Visual

Simply Speaking (book//CD) - Speech Activities for Music Classes Grades K - 6

Sue Mueller

Simply Speaking is a great new music teaching resource presenting 14 activities for the music classroom centered around the idea of speech, chants, and word rhythms. Sue Mueller’s extensive experience in the classroom in addition to her well-received workshops and Orff courses guarantees that this book will be one of your most valuable tools for teaching musical concepts.

From the introduction:

“ Proverbs, rhymes, poems, limerick, haiku, and prose teach not only rhythmic lessons, but also motivate movement, suggest melody, show texture, and create form.”

The activities are arranged in Orff Style with lesson plans and objectives, teaching suggestions, and a useful glossary of terms. Sue has correlated the lessons to the MENC Nationals Standards. A CD-ROM is included with full-color and black and white visuals to supplement each lesson. The visuals are suitable for your presentation software or your interactive whiteboard.

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A Musical Treat That's Fun to Beat - The poetry of Dennis Lee st in the Orff Style.

Judy Sills

This book is a collection of 22 selected poems by Dennis Lee from his books, Alligator Pie, Garbage Delight, Jelly Belly and The Ice Cream Store. The have been orchestrated in the Orff style as speech pieces, songs, hand games, or full orchestrations. Some pieces include choreographed folk-style dances. The subject matter is current, using topics of interest to children. The rhymes are clever and catchy, and the images he portrays are humorous and easily learned by children.
This book is already a classic, but this new expanded edition is even better!

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Take a look at Judy's newly released 2nd edition of Canadiana.

Autumn Songs - Music from Around the World for Orff Ensemble

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This new book from from Rob Amchin features songs and activities from around the world plus lesson plans and teaching suggestions useful for every music teacher!

Read more about it HERE.