Dr. Ware is often invited to conduct festival choirs and has written two collections of songs with Orff-style accompaniments that feature treble voices and Orff instruments. Dr. Ware's work with jazz stylings for elementary grades is also a "can't miss."
Contact Dr. Ware if you would like to invite him to present a workshop or lead an in-service training session for your teachers or students.
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What an excellent addition to the Beatin' Path Library! Patrick has created lessons with movement, singing, and playing instruments for our youngest students, PreK-2! Early childhood education can be thrilling, enlightening, and undoubtedly the best time to start children on a path of artistry.
Patrick has created these lessons with that in mind. Every class is full of aesthetic appeal yet developmentally perfect for the age group. Those who know Patrick's work will love his use of "jazzy" grooves in several pieces. These inevitably become the favorites of the children and the teacher!
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Patrick shows how your youngest students can improvise too! Classic Orff process added to some cool jazz riffs in arrangements of children's rhymes and original tunes makes this book a perfect addition to your classroom library.
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"Whether This Is What I Can Do! begins a jazz journey for you and your students or provides a stop along the way, I hope you enjoy the time with these pieces and the music you make with your students."
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Patrick's new book of original Jazz tunes for Orff classes contains teaching suggestions, full scores for the teacher, listening recommendations and lots of helpful information about jazz styles. Fantastic, child-friendly and playable, these tunes have an infectious groove and have been well tested in the classroom.
Supplemental materials are available for purchasers online including audio files of each piece along with full scores, instrument parts and individual and solo set-ups for each instrument. Appropriate for Grades 4 - 8.
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This book is the second of Patrick's collection of folk and jazz chorals for elementary choir. The engaging arrangements in this volume are more accessible to young choirs, also featuring the creative energy of jazz. Each of the pieces is adaptable to older choirs too.
Patrick wrote these with his students over a period of 10 years so all the pieces are child-tested and true. It's fantastic resource for your music program.
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These songs are perfect for your elementary music classes, school choirs with Orff Ensembles, or Festival choirs. Most have been performed at choral festivals around the country. All vary in levels of difficulty, but all are perfectly adaptable to the age and abilities of your students.
These songs highlight some great jazz grooves. Most are two-part but all are easily adapted to unison and up to five part vocals as ostinatos are layered. Patrick wrote these with his students over a period of 10 years so all the pieces are child-tested and true. It's truly a fantastic resource for your music program.
Dr. Patrick Ware, a Boston native, began his composition studies at Westfield State College where he earned the Bachelor of Arts degree in Music. After receiving his MSEd from Radford University, he completed his Orff-Schulwerk Certification and movement apprenticeship at George Mason University. Patrick completed the doctoral program at the Shenandoah Conservatory of Shenandoah University in 2016.
Along with his K-5 general music, and choral duties in Prince William County Public Schools, Prince William County VA, Patrick is the movement instructor for the Carnegie Mellon University Orff-Schulwerk teacher training course as well as the movement and recorder instructor for the Worcester Public Schools Orff-Schulwerk teacher training course. He is an active clinician and choral conductor at both the national and local level.
New House 416 is featured in Patrick's workshop, Hip Cats and Cool Kids - Jazz in the Elementary Classroom. The tune is published in his book Here's Two.
