FREE Summer Concerts in Central Ohio

Many of us here at Stanton’s Sheet Music are looking for ways to spend less on summer entertainment this year. Did you know that many of the Columbus, OH suburbs offer FREE summer concert series?! You can spend an afternoon or evening outdoors enjoying great music and mingling with your neighbors—you could even pack a picnic. Below are some links to online information about concerts in various Central Ohio communities, but if you don’t see your city listed, contact your local visitor’s bureau or department of parks and recreation to see what they have to offer!

Canal Winchester: Music and Art in the Park

Clintonville: Park of Roses Concert Series

Downtown (Genoa Park): WaterFire Columbus
Downtown (Columbus Commons): Downtown Live

Dublin: Sundays at Scioto Concert Series

Gahanna: Music in the Park and Creekside Live @ 5

Grandview: Concerts on the Library Lawn

Grove City: Summer Sizzle Concert Series

Hilliard: Arts Council Summer Concert Series

Pickerington: Giant Eagle Summer Concert Series

Upper Arlington: Cultural Arts Division “Music in the Parks”

Westerville: Sounds of Summer Concert Series

Worthington: Concerts on the Green

If you know of more free concert series, please let Stanton’s know (so we can attend them too). Also, be sure to check out the Experience Columbus events calendar for more great, FREE ideas for summer!

Wedding Albums for String Trios, Duets and Solos

String Players – do you play wedding gigs through the summer?  These Latham Music collections are “must-haves” for your gig folders.

String Trio
Wedding Album 1 for String Trio
arranged by Lynne Latham
for Violin, Viola and Cello, with optional Violin 2 for Viola
16 wedding standards much like the quartet book – plus Pachelbel’s Canon, which is not included in any of the quartet collections.

Wedding Album 1 for Piano Trio
arranged by Lynne Latham
for Piano, Violin and Cello
16 wedding standards same as the string trio book.

Wedding Album 2 for String Trio
arranged by Lynne Latham
for Violin, Viola and Cello, with optional Violin 2 for Viola
9 prelude/postlude pieces including Mozart’s Alleluja from Exultate Jubilate, Beethoven’s Ode to Joy, Bach’s Wachet Auf , Sheep May Safely Graze and more – same as the second quartet album.

Wedding Album 2 for Piano Trio
arranged by Lynne Latham
for Piano, Violin and Cello
9 prelude/postlude pieces same as the string trio book.

Wedding Album 3 for String Trio
arranged by Lynne Latham
for Violin, Viola and Cello, with optional Violin 2 for Viola
7 prelude/postlude pieces including Charpentier’s Te Deum, Bach-Gounod’s Ave Maria, Massenet’s Meditation from Thais and a suite of four pieces from Purcell’s The Fairy Queen and more – same as the third quartet album.

Wedding Album 3 for Piano Trio
arranged by Lynne Latham
for Piano, Violin and Cello
7 prelude/postlude pieces same as the string trio book.

String Duo
Weddings for Two
arranged by Lynne Latham
for two violins or violin and viola or violin and cello
Violin 1 (first part)
Violin 2 (second part)
Viola (second part)
Cello (second part)
Must have first violin, then add one of the other books.  23 standard wedding and prelude/postlude selections as found in the quartet and trio collections.

String Solo with Accompaniment
Violinist’s Wedding Album 1
arranged by Lynne Latham with piano accompaniment
Violinist’s Wedding Album 1 w/CD
arranged by Lynne Latham with CD accompaniment
22 wedding and prelude/postlude standards

Violinist’s Wedding Album 2
arranged by Lynne Latham with piano accompaniment
11 prelude/postlude pieces

Violist’s Wedding Album 1
arranged by Lynne Latham with piano accompaniment
22 wedding and prelude/postlude standards

Cellist’s Wedding Album 1
arranged by Ted Hunter and Lynne Latham with piano accompaniment
11 wedding standards

Cellist’s Wedding Album 2
arranged by Lynne Latham with piano accompaniment
14 prelude/postlude pieces

For more information on these and other materials for strings, contact Stanton’s Orchestra Department. Shop Stanton’s for all your sheet music needs!

Strive for Excellence with your Choir!

Stanton’s Sheet Music is pleased to announce our 20th annual Excellence in Choral Literature Clinic on Saturday August 24, 2013! This session was designed to help you select concert and contest literature from some of choral music’s most distinguished composers, featuring the best in new music for mixed, treble, and men’s choirs at all levels of difficulty. Registration fee includes a complimentary packet of over 30 titles.

Come join us to discover beautiful music and share ideas with colleagues and friends! For more information, please check out our video below, contact us by email, or call us at 1.800.426.8742. Register online NOW!

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Wedding Albums for String Quartet

String Players – do you play wedding gigs through the summer?  These Latham Music collections are “must-haves” for your gig folders.

Wedding Album 1 for String Quartet
arranged by Lynne Latham
12 wedding standards, including the Wagner and Mendelssohn wedding marches, Clarke’s Trumpet Voluntary, Purcell’s Trumpet Tune, Schubert’s Ave Maria and more.

Wedding Album 2 for String Quartet
arranged by Lynne Latham
9 prelude/postlude pieces including Mozart’s Alleluja from Exultate Jubilate, Beethoven’s Ode to Joy, Bach’s Wachet Auf , Sheep May Safely Graze and more.

Wedding Album 3 for String Quartet
arranged by Lynne Latham
7 prelude/postlude pieces including Charpentier’s Te Deum, Bach-Gounod’s Ave Maria, Massenet’s Meditation from Thais and a suite of four pieces from Purcell’s The Fairy Queen and more.

Wedding Album 4 for String Quartet
arranged by Lynne Latham and Catherine McMichael
10 pieces subtitled Beautiful Music for Meditation including Faure’s Pie Jesu from Requiem, MacDowell’s To a Wild Rose, Prayer from Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel, Adagio from Beethoven’s Pathetique Sonata and more.

Wedding Album for Trumpet and String Quartet
arranged by Lynne Latham
10 wedding standards for Trumpet and String Quartet, including the Wagner, Mendelssohn, Clarke and Purcell from the Wedding Album 1 for String Quartet plus trumpet-worthy selections such as La Rejouissance from Handel’s Royal Fireworks, Mouret’s Rondeau, Hornpipe from Handel’s Water Music, Purcell’s Sonata for Trumpet and Strings and more.

For more information on these and other materials for strings, contact Stanton’s Orchestra Department. Shop Stanton’s for all your sheet music needs!

Autoharpin’

In 1881, Charles Zimmerman invented the Autoharp.  In the 1960′s, Rhythm Band began to import Chromaharps from Japan.  They are much the same instrument.  Both have 36 strings and buttons on bars to press down, each bar pressed down produces a different chord.  Elementary music teachers nearly always have one or the other in the instrument cabinet in the classroom.  Much more can be done with an Autoharp or Chromaharp than simple strumming.  Fancier strums can be employed, and there is a way to do some picking. Folksingers often include an Autoharp in their collection of  instruments they use to accompany themselves. Mother Maybelle Carter is one of the best known autoharp players. It’s a much more versatile instrument than many people realize.  Mel Bay’s Complete Method for Autoharp or Chromaharp has 48 lessons teaching everything from learning to read music and tuning to advanced strumming.  This book of sheet music for Autoharp was written by Meg Peterson, and includes a CD.  For more information about this or other Autoharp music, please call us at 1-800-42-MUSIC, email us at keyboard@stantons.com, or visit our website at http://www.stantons.com. Shop Stanton’s for all your sheet music needs!

“The Educator’s Guide to Grants”

Would you like funding to update your music technology resources? Do you need uniforms or instruments for the marching band? Are you searching for funding for professional development or travel to study abroad? The Educator’s Guide to Grants is designed to help schools and non-profits find funding and create proposals to access funds successfully. Novices just learning to negotiate grant writing and more experienced writers seeking million-dollar awards will find insight and assistance with this guide. A CD-ROM included with the book features a screened list of hundreds of funding sources matched to each grant area.

Shop Stanton’s for your sheet music needs!

Attention: Elementary Music Teachers!

Elementary General Music Clinic
Wednesday 7/31/2013, 9:00 am-12:30 pm
Columbia Heights UMC
REGISTRATION: $20.00
Stanton’s Sheet Music is excited to welcome back Cristi Cary Miller as our clinician for the 31st edition of our Elementary General Music Clinic. This is one of Stanton’s longest running and most successful clinics, showcasing the best new teacher resources, song collections, games, musicals and more! We are sure that you will find materials that will keep you and your students interested throughout the year. Get your school year started on the right foot!

First Lessons Dulcimer

Have you recently acquired a lap dulcimer, and now want to know what to do with it?   It’s not too hard to learn: there are a lot of helpful books, DVDs and CDs available!

Joyce Ochs has written a helpful method book for the dulcimer in DAD tuning.  First Lessons Dulcimer  includes a CD that will help you tune your dulcimer and what the songs are supposed to sound like. All the basics are here. Basic chords and strums are taught, and beginning melody picking is introduced.

When you are comfortable with your dulcimer,  Stanton’s has a selection of more dulcimer books to choose from. There are dulcimer hymns and books of folk songs for dulcimer.  For more dulcimer music, call us at 1-800-42-MUSIC, email us at keyboard@stantons.com, or visit our website at http://www.stantons.com.  Shop Stanton’s for all your sheet music needs!

Stanton’s Hosts RPMDA!

Stanton’s was honored to be the host dealer for this year’s Retail Print Music Dealers Association (RPMDA) Convention held May 1-4.  RPMDA is an organization of sheet music retailers and publishers who meet annually to discuss topics related to selling print product. As the host dealer for the convention, Stanton’s opened our doors for a tour of the store and a private “Tailgate Party” for our guests.

For an event of this size, we needed to secure a noise permit, a fire permit and a building permit to erect the 3200 square foot tent from Lasting Impressions event rental. With a “tailgate” themed party, we turned to JP’s Barbeque for catering and Hospitality Inc. for setting up the open cocktail party. The tent and party was set up in the South side of our ample parking lot, and guests could easily mingle and socialize inside and outside of our large store. For entertainment, we asked Ben Huntoon, Stanton’s resident “Jazz Guy,” to put together an 18-piece big band featuring some of Columbus’ top jazz players.  The “Stanton’s Reading Band” included jazz educators from The Ohio State University, Capital University,  Otterbein University, Denison University, Columbus City Schools, members of the Columbus Jazz Orchestra, as well as alumni of the Stan Kenton, Maynard Ferguson, Buddy Rich, Thad Jones/Mel Lewis, Bill Watrous and Woody Herman bands. So did we hire a good band…no, we hired a GREAT band! The band’s 2-hour set was some of the best powerhouse jazz played in Columbus, and was certainly a highlight of the convention. Over the next few days, many guests from the party told us that it was one of the best activities they’d ever attended associated with RPMDA!

Stanton’s Sheet Music is so proud to have had this opportunity to open our store up to the network of music store owners, buyers and publishers across the country. With the success of our party and the vibrancy of our Downtown, Arena District and Short North areas, we hope that all the convention participants were assured that Columbus is an exciting, metropolitan capital. Thanks to all who attended and see you next year in Dallas!

Music Budget – Use It or Lose It!

String Teachers – do you still have money left on a Purchase Order that you need to spend – or you’ll lose it? Get the best “Bang for your Buck” with one or more of the newest String Supplement books for young players:

Essential Musicianship for Strings – Fundamental Ensemble Concepts
Essential Musicianship for Strings – Intermediate Ensemble Concepts
by Michael Allen, Robert Gillespie and Pamela Tellejohn Hayes
*Rounds and Arrangements, correlating with the Essential Elements 2000 for Strings, Book 1 and 2
*The Fundamental book centers around the keys of D, G and C major
*The Intermediate book is based on the keys  D, A, F, Bb major plus g and d minor
*Through rounds, teach how different musical lines can be performed at the same time
* Establish a foundation for playing ensemble music as they learn to listen and play with other parts

Steps to Successful Ensembles
by Jeremy Woolstenhulme
*For first to second year players, loosely correlated with String Basics method book
*More advanced players can use it for sight-reading practice
*24 ensemble pieces, original compositions and arrangements, sequentially presented in order of difficulty
*Starts with short all-pizzicato selections and concludes with J. S. Bach’s Peasant Cantata
*Each piece has optional piano accompaniment, three have optional percussion

Sound Innovations – Sound Development
Warm-Up Exercises for Tone and Technique for Intermediate String Orchestra
by Bob Phillips and Kirk Moss
*Emphasis on playing with a characteristic beautiful string sound
*Tone – Bowing lanes, bow weight, bow speed
*Bowing – right hand skills and specific techniques – hooked bowings, martele, spiccato, colle
*Shifting – starting with harmonics and presented through finger patterns.  3rd & 5th and an introduction to 2nd & 4th
*Scales/Arpeggios – one or two octaves, up through 3 sharps and 3 flats, traditional and alternate fingerings
*Chorales/Rhythms – harmonized chorales and drones plus rhythm exercises in a variety of meters

and coming off the press soon…
Sound Innovations – Sound Development
Warm-Up Exercises for Tone and Technique for Advanced String Orchestra
by Bob Phillips and Kirk Moss

Contact Stanton’s orchestra department for more information on any of these products. Shop Stanton’s for all your sheet music needs!