Themes & Variations

Author: Denise Gagne
Format: Book with CD-ROM
Version: Classroom Materials

Recorder Resource Kit 1
This is a beginning recorder method that has been used to help thousands of children to learn to play the recorder. There is an introduction to the recorder and recorder consorts, helping children to learn that recorder is a real instrument! Children will learn how to care for the recorder and basic music theory. There are 38 songs in the book, carefully sequenced so that children will have success in the very first lesson. Children love to play along with the accompaniment tracks that are included - and parents will find these performances enjoyable - not painful to listen to! Children are invited to compose their own music - a variation for Hot Cross Buns and a B section for a Rondo. Children learn about famous composers and learn to play themes by them. This kit includes a fingering chart.

The Recorder Resource Kit contains everything that the teacher needs for teaching a first year recorder program: teacher's guide, games, practise bugs, note name mad minutes, assessment rubrics, piano/guitar chord symbols, tone bar accompaniments, composition, recorder care and recorder note name flashcards!

The Kit includes 42 student pages in standard notation AND 42 pages in kids note notation for you to copy for your students. In "Kid Notes" the letter name is imprinted directly on the note head. This helps weak readers to progress. It's preferable to having them pencil in letter names with "Kid Notes" they still read rhythms and see note placement.

The 2018 Recorder Resource Kit includes all the printables AND the Digital Resources: PowerPoints, Smart Notebook files and QuickTime movies of all components of the Recorder Kit.

With the Recorder Resource Kit you have many options for providing the music for your students:
Copy the reproducibles for your students from the kit.
Have students download the Learn and Play Recorder app.
Have students purchase the interactive iBook on iTunes: Recorder Resource Student Book.
If you're a subscriber to musicplayonline.com, students can use the student login and practice the songs in the recorder section.

This version of the Kit includes the Digital Resources: PowerPoints, Smart Notebook files and QuickTime movies of all components of the Recorder Kit.

1. All Songs and Composer Biographies that are in the Recorder Resource Kit 1
2. Mad Minutes and Answer Keys from the Recorder Resource Kit
3. Recorder Theory Quiz
4. All About the Recorder & How to Care for the Recorder
5. How Notes Are Named
6. Counting Music
7. All Songs in Kids Notes notation
8. Soprano Fingerings

Materials Included
- Printed Book / Enhanced Audio CD
- Projectable PDF
- PowerPoint
- SMART Notebook
- Concept Movies
- Notehighlight Movies

Songs List:

• Just A
• Just B
• A and B Blues
• Just G
• G and A Blues
• Suogan
• Au claire de la lune
• Hot Cross Buns
• Starlight
• Lucy Locket
• Kagome
• BAGE Blues
• Little Tommy Tiddlemouse
• Trampin'
• Doggie Doggie
• Salish Hand Game
• Skin & Bones
• Frog In the Middle
• Country Swing
• Ho Ho Watanay
• My Paddle
• Rondo
• C' you in Dixie
• Hush Little Baby
• Sanctus
• Bouffons
• C and D
• Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring
• Ode to Joy
• Renaissance Round
• Closet Key
• From the New World
• Morning
• Good King Wenceslas
• Jingle Bells
• Jolly Old St. Nicholas
• C Scale
• Camptown Races

Recorder Resource Kit 2
This sequential resource is intended for second year recorder students, but reviews the notes in the event that you have students in your class that have never played recorder. There are 24 songs for two-part soprano recorders. Your students will enjoy playing recorder duets! There is an optional alto recorder part, giving your students the option of playing easy three part ensembles. Digital resources include:

1. All About the Recorder
2. Recorder Quiz
3. Two Part Soprano with Performance/Accompaniment Audio
4. Two Part Soprano KIDNOTES with Performance/Accompaniment Audio
5. Recorder Kit 2 Theory PowerPoint
6. Recorder Kit 2 Full Score
7. Soprano and Alto Fingerings

The Recorder Resource Kit 2 PowerPoint Edition is the perfect complement to the Recorder Resource Kit for the thousands of teachers that already have and use the Recorder Resource Kit 2. If you don't have the kit, the PPT can be used as the teacher resource in conjunction with student books for your students.

This version of the Kit includes the Digital Resources: PowerPoints, Smart Notebook files and QuickTime movies of all components of the Recorder Kit.

Two part arrangements for soprano recorders, or soprano and alto recorders. This sequential resource is intended for second year recorder students, but reviews the notes in the event that you have students in your class that have never played recorder. 75 photocopy pages allow you to use the entire program, or to choose repertoire to supplement your existing music curriculum. Includes regular and kids notes notation.

Materials Included
- Printed Book / Enhanced Audio CD
- Projectable PDF
- PowerPoint
- SMART Notebook
- Concept Movies
- Notehighlight Movies
- Performance Movies

Songs List:

• Review BAG
• Suogan
• BAG Blues
• GED Blued
• Blueberry Hill
• Old Brass Wagon
• Chatter With the Angels
• Ho Ho Watanay
• My Paddle
• This Little Light
• Review C and D
• Good News
• Ode to Joy
• Chopsticks
• Waltz
• Review FED
• The Scale
• Il est ne, le Divin Enfant
• Au clair de la lune
• Do Lord
• Birch Tree
• Surprise Symphony
• My Country 'Tis of Thee / The Queen
• O Canada