Composed By: Michael Burkhardt
Octaves: 2-3 Handbells or Handchimes
Level: 1
Season: Concert, General, Teaching
This revolutionary approach to teaching music literacy with handbells or handchimes takes the ringer from rote and chord playing to reading part scores and the full grand staff! Written as a sequential music education method, "Read 'n Ring" contains arrangements with separate two- and three-octave settings alongside classroom-tested exercises to develop note-reading skills and reinforce basic musical concepts.
Contents:
- Rote Warm-up Exercises
- The Major Scale
- The Steady Beat Chord
- Reading Warm-up Exercises
- A Bell/Chime Peal
- I and V Chords (Won't You Come and Ring)
- I, V, and IV Chords (Amazing Grace)
- I, V, and IV Chords (Hymn to Joy)
- Andante (Debbie's Song)
- A Spring Carol (13th Century Carol)
- Largo (New World Symphony, Movement 2)
- Andante ("Suprise" Symphony 94, Movement 2)
- Simple Gifts (Shaker Dance)
- Romanza (Eine kleine Nachtmusik, Movement 2)
- Allegretto (Symphony 7, Movement 2)