Orchestra Expressions(tm) provides music educators at all levels with
easy-to-use, exciting tools to meet daily classroom challenges and bring
new vibrancy and depth to teaching music. The lessons were written based
on the National Standards for the Arts in Music -- not retro-fitted to
the Standards. The program is music literacy-based and satisfies reading
and writing mandates in orchestra class. The pedagogy involves a
four-fingers-down start for every instrument, separate but simultaneous
development of both hands, and beginning the bass in III position to
develop early shifting.
The Teacher Curriculum Package for Book One includes Teacher's Edition
Books Volumes I-IV, Teacher's Resource Guide, Teacher Lesson,
Masterworks and Performance Selection CDs (1 Masterwork and Rhythms CD,
7 Lesson CDs, and 1 Performance Selections CD), Teacher's Support Pack,
which includes Student worksheets #1-#54 (85 total), Teacher Forms and
Rubrics (student assessment worksheets, 5 total), and Transparencies
#1-#66 (67 total), Orchestra Progress Record Book One (OPR1), several
orchestra arrangements by Sandra Dackow, and a final full orchestra
concert piece. This Curriculum Package does not include a DVD.
This title is available in MakeMusic Cloud.