Beatin' Path Publications, Ltd.

302 East College Street

Bridgewater, VA 22812

540-478-4833

fax: 540-828-6903

beatinpath@mac.com

Brent Holl	Michael Nichols	Rob Amchin	Chris Judah-Lauder	Jane Lamb	Sue Mueller
Patrick Ware	Shen Fine	Celah Pence	John Barr	Judy Sills	Jesse E. Hopkins

PRODUCTS

Drumming	Recorders	Children's Church	Orff Ensembles	Orff Process	Treble Choir Easy	Treble Choir Advanced	Full Choir SATB
Hand Drums on the Move	The Beatin' Path Consort Collection	Children's Orff Music for Church	Woodsongs	A Musical Treat That's Fun to Beat	Children's Orff Music for Church	With Happy Voices Singing	May the Road
to drum	The Beatin' Path Consort Collection Volume 2	Children Sing Praise	Blue Dude	Canadiana	Children Sing Praise	Amherst Melodies	Go Out with Joy
Canya Conga?	Moods and Modes	Sing Out Children	Ensemble	Seasons and Holidays	Sing Out Children	How Can I Keep From Singing
	Recorder Frolics	Three Bible Stories	Canadiana	Autumn Songs	Sing Winter
	Alto Antics		Autumn Songs	Spring Songs	Celebrate
	Christian Harmony			Simply Speaking	Canons Too!

Download a full color brochure with descriptions and ordering information HERE.

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

WELCOME! Find music for middle school Orff ensembles and general music classes, arrangements for recorder ensembles from beginning to advanced, church music for children's choir and Orff instruments, and music for elementary and middle school choir.

We also can now offer Celtic music from Shen Fine, a fine band based in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.

Listen to some of the fine tradtional hymns and songs from the Southern Harmony tradition on Brent's website. His new audio CD is titled "Hymns and Songs of the Brethren." You can hear a preview on his web page.

We're pleased to recommend our fine recording engineer, mix master, and guitar virtuoso, Bart Reardon. Go to his website to find out more about his excellent new CD "Once Upon a Guitar."

We highly recommend Tom Bourne's marimbas and Peripole's Middle School Orff Instruments.

We encourage you to use your credit card with PayPal, but you can print our order form and we'll bill you! Enter and enjoy!

Simply Speaking (book//CD)

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.

Read more about it HERE.

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!

Read more about it HERE.

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

Canons Too!

Brent M. Holl

This collection of eleven canons and arrangements is suitable for young children in third through eighth grades. Six of the songs are arranged for Orff instruments. Each canon also has copying privileges so you can make every child a copy. All songs work equally well a cappella or with Orff instruments.
Teaching Suggestions and Lesson Plans for some of the songs are included. Contributing editor Rob Amchin has written an article to give many techniques and ideas about teaching rounds and canons.
This book is already a classic, but this new expanded edition is even better!

Read more about it HERE.

Canya Conga? (book/CD)

Chris Judah-Lauder

Appropriate for grades 4 - 8, CANYA CONGA? is a new book of drumming activities that is every bit as exciting and useful as Chris' first two books for Hand Drums, Hand Drums on the Move and to drum. The book is laid out with extensive lesson plans including objectives, process, and extension possibilities plus full scores for every activity. A disc is included with each book containing image files of each full size music score and a FULL COLOR VISUAL of each activity suitable for making transparencies or for use on a SMARTBOARD®. This book will have all of your upper elementary and middle school students moving, creating, and drumming like never before. Order yours today!

Read more about it HERE.

Autumn Songs - Music from Around the World for Orff Ensemble

Robert A. Amchin

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.