Stanton’s Attends the NYSSMA Convention

Stanton’s Sheet Music will be attending it’s 4th New York State School Music Association Convention (NYSSMA), December 5th & 6th.  The winter convention is held annually in Rochester, New York.  Stanton’s booth numbers will be 110,111,112, 123,124, & 125.  Look for us under the Stanton’s balloon.  NYSSMA is celebrating it’s 73rd year in existence and is a major contributor to music education in the state of New York.  Stanton’s is looking forward to seeing all of our friends in New York and look forward to building new relationships with music educators throughout the state.  Hope to see you there.

Three New Christmas Pieces for High School Concert Band

The Stanton’s band department sat down and listened to hundreds of new concert band pieces this past summer and fall and are really excited about what has been recently published.  Three pieces stuck out in their minds for Christmas, all of them are grade 3 concert band pieces that can easily be learned before the holiday season.

Each piece can be listened to by clicking on the titles of the pieces. Click the Image to view the item on the Stanton’s Website.

Here We Come A Caroling, Arranged by Rob Romeyn, by Barnhouse Publishing

Ukrainian Bell Carol, Arranged by Richard Saucedo, by Hal Leonard Publishing

Fantasia on We Three Kings, by Jack Bullock, by Belwin Publishing

Sacred Piano Highlights 10/27

Here are a few more staff selections from the keyboard department at Stanton’s Sheet Music. These are three of our top picks from our Sacred Piano Workshop from August.

Forever Exalted!

 Forever Exalted!

This is one of our favorites from Lloyd Larson.  We like it because it blends together the old and the new, in a sense by combining contemporary worship songs with familiar hymns. The book is moderately advanced in difficulty.

Christmas at the Keyboard

 

 

 

Christmas at the Keyboard

One of Judy’s favorites for the great selection of songs and the high quality arrangements by Mark Hayes. In her own words, it’s just a great, great book. It is early to medium advanced.

A Christmas Offering

 

 

 

 

A Christmas Offering

 

You may recognize the top of this book from our post a few weeks ago about our latest Christmas music on the shelves now. It is a favorite of Caryn, another one of our knowledgeable keyboard staff members. She highly recommends it for the quality and imaginative arrangements. It is intermediate in difficulty.

Elementary Music Highlights 10/20

Sight-Sing a Song (09971136) – Music Reading for the Elementary Classroom

Audry Snyder

How can I teach my students to sight-sing when I have them for such a limited class time? “Sight-Sing a Song” will help you do just that. This well-designed approach by teacher and choral director Audry Snyder progresses in an easy step-by-step manner. Each lesson includes helpful teacher tips that focus on the music concepts being presented along with a teaching sequence to use when presenting each exercise. This book also includes two student reproducible pages filled with sight-reading exercises. The songs and exercises are presented in the keys of C major and F major so the students will experience movable “do.” A CD is also included with the performance and and accompaniment tracks.

 

 

101 Music Activities (09971135)

Mary Donnelly

This is a must-have for busy music teachers. This is a fun-filled, substantive activity book that supplements your elementary classroom. There are 101 self-directed sequential worksheets divided into chapters including Reading Rhythm, Reading Melody, Key Signatures, Staff and Letter Names, and Listening and Literacy. Each activity is geared to the National Standards and can be used as an assessment tool. Students’ pages are reproducible and the table of contents shows the grade levels for each activity.

Folk Music Highlights 10/19

The staff picks are rolling in now, and we have a brand new Hal Leonard book to feature here. Selected by our resident folk music expert here, the Old Town School of Folk Music Songbook for guitar it is an essential collection for any library.

Taken from their Mission Statement:

“Old Town School of Folk Music has grown to become one of the largest independent community arts schools in the United States. Yet despite its size and presence, the intensely social, intimate and uncomplicated atmosphere of the Old Town School is as accessible and important as it was in 1957.”

We hope you’ll check out this essential set of guitar lead sheets that includes photos, teaching materials, reference charts, history, and of course over 100 songs to keep you busy.

Choral Department Highlights 10/18

Here at Stanton’s we are always trying to offer the best music for our customers. As often as we can, we’ll present our staff recommendations for the best of the best, the most popular, or perhaps gems that flew under the radar. Here are some of our current choral department favorites.

GOOD CHRISTIAN MEN REJOICE (#08747476, arr. Dan Forrest)
If you have access to 2 pianists, this is a great choice for church, school or community choirs.  The 4-hand piano accompaniment shimmers and really contributes to the energy of this arrangement.

 

 

 

MOTHER GOOSE MADRIGALS (#CM9066, arr. Donald Moore)
A great change-of-pace selection, either as a set of four or individually.  These familiar nursery rhymes get a new life with these fun arrangements.

 

 

 

WHEN WE ARE SINGING A SONG (#15/2406H, Jerry Estes)
Jerry Estes has a knack for writing melodies with a pop “flavor” that kids really respond to, while still including lots of teaching opportunities.  This is a great example – it’s uplifting without being “cheesy”, and fun without being “fluff”.

 

 

 

MICHAEL ROW THE BOAT ASHORE (#6351, arr. Earlene Rentz)
This arrangement is so fresh and original!  It has great motion and energy, and really gives the old folk song a new twist.

Christmas Music is In!

Hey folks, here at Stanton’s, all across our store, Christmas music is going out in our display racks. We have dedicated display racks and browser bins overflowing with new goodies, the classics, family favorites, and holiday standards all over the store. From our section of piano/vocal/guitar songbooks and collections to our school band Christmas sets, we have anything and everything you’ll need this season.

Winter concert coming up? We have a huge selection of Christmas choral works as well as jazz band, concert band, and orchestra tunes. Getting ready for a family and friends sort of event? We have solo books for all the instruments, voice, voice with piano and many others. Additionally, we have family sing-a-long books, small ensemble books, and music packs for family get togethers.

Check back with us frequently for our staff recommendations and new releases. We are just getting ready to load up even more with all the latest holiday publications from Hal Leonard, Alfred, Carl Fischer, Hope Publishing, and many more.

Don’t forget about our gift items too for this season. We’ve got tree ornaments of instruments, holiday CDs and DVDs (including the ever classic DVD-fireplace), not to mention T-shirts and even little stocking stuffers like pencils, pens, notepads, mugs, and more.

General Music Workshop in Streetsboro, Ohio

This past Saturday, Stanton’s was a participating exhibitor at the OMEA General Music Mini-Conference in Streetsboro, Ohio.  The conference was well attended with over 150 participants and five vendors were on hand to enhance the session for the attendees.  Two of Stanton’s staff members left Columbus at 4:30 in the morning in order to be set up by 9:00 a.m.  So it was a long day for them, but they felt that it was worth the effort in order to support this event and General Music Teachers from around Ohio.  Next years event may be moved to Columbus, to bring a bigger draw from around the state.  The Stanton’s booth consisted of Children’s Musicals, Texts, Song Collections, Orff and Kodaly materials. 

Engineering Music

Smart engineers create an artificial musician.  The Artemis Music Orchestra competition is an automated contest that engineering school students make mechanical musicians.  This years winners was NICTA a group of computer engineers from Austrialia with talent for the Clarinet.  See the video by reading the entire article. 

General Music Workshop

Stanton’s has been asked to be a vendor at this years General Music Workshop in Streetsboro, Ohio.  The Ohio General Music Mini-Conference has been in existance for three years and this year they have asked OMEA to be involved in organzing the event.  One of the ideas that OMEA had to enhance the workshop was to have exhibits at the workshop.  David Adamson contacted me and convinced us that it was a worthwhile event that we should be a part of the workshop.  The OMEA Mini-Conference will be held Friday, October 3rd & 4th, with exhibit area only opened on Saturday, October 4th.  As of today 104 pre-registrations have been accepted.  The location of the event is Streetsboro Middle School at 1951 Annalane Drive Streetsboro, OH 44241