Here’s what teachers are saying aboutSing and Make Music:

“The lesson plans themselves are very clear, and could easily beunderstood and taught by a non-musician. . . . In fact, there are somany good ideas ready for use that teachers who otherwise avoidedmusic class, might be inspired to devote more class time to it. . . . Itis accessible to the non-specialist, very user-friendly, and presentsthe musical skills children need in a logical and appealing manner.”

—Lutheran EducationMay/June 1999

Reviewer Susan Wente

“In the past, teaching music was difficult and haphazard becausethere was no standard curriculum to follow. . . . Now, if teachers useSing and Make Music, students should be equipped to demonstratea high level of musicality at the end of grade school.”

“We are beginning to reap the reward of using Sing and Make Musicand are allowing enough time in classroom schedules for anemphasis on music. This will certainly equip our students to bemore proficient in the future, whether it be as a worshiper in thepew or as a classroom music teacher or choir director.”

—The Lutheran EducatorMay 2001

From interviews with WELS teachers

A Music Curriculumfor the LutheranElementary School

Author: Dr. Edward H. Meyer,Professor of Music at Martin Luther College

Sing and Make Music can be used as a stand-alone musiccurriculum or as an enhancement to any standard musiccurriculum. In addition to teaching basic musical concepts,it also examines the music and liturgy of the church.Each level includes activities to teach students toappreciate music.

Easy-to-Use Teacher’s Guides—•Lesson notes and copy masters are housed between colorful tabs in convenient,

sturdy three-ring binders.

•Functional indexes provide quick reference to unit contents, songs, and CD tracks.

•These all-inclusive guides enable teachers with limited musical ability to teachSing and Make Music with ease.

Lessons—•This music curriculum teaches both music listening and reading skills.

•Lessons in each level build upon one another from year to year.

Songbooks—Accompaniment and Student Editions—

•Simple keyboard accompaniments help teachers with limited keyboardexperience accompany their students.

•Student songbooks for levels two through five provide the words and music forall the supplementary songs.

•Contents include a variety of songs—new and traditional, secular and sacred,and easy as well as challenging.

•Each level offers a wide variety of Christian hymns.

•Lessons can easily be adapted for use with any hymnal.

Compact Discs—•Two sets of CDs provide accompaniments and supplementary music for Sing and Make Music.

•Lesson CDs contain unit lesson songs and listening activities.

•Songbook CDs contain all songs found in the songbook.

•The voice or accompaniment track can be used alone by adjusting the left-to-right balancecontrol on your CD player or sound system. The teacher’s guides list the digital CD track locationfor every song. Select and play a specific song quickly or create a custom, daily-lesson playlist.

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Here are three reasons to makeSing and Make Music your music curriculum:

✔ detailed teacher’s guides make these simple lessons easy to teach

✔ perfect for classroom teachers with limited musical background

✔ useful for teachers in both small and large schools

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Supplementary Recordings—•Each level of Sing and Make Music includes a unit on

the classics.

•Recordings of the required compositions are availableon various CDs from music stores, school-supplycatalogs, or public libraries.

•Specific recordings referenced in the teacher’s guidesmay be ordered from Northwestern Publishing House.

or order through the NPH Online Catalog at www.nph.net.

Sing and Make MusicLevel One—Prekindergarten

and Kindergarten

Level Two—Grades 1 and 2

Level Three—Grades 3 and 4

Level Four—Grades 5 and 6

Level Five—Grades 7 and 8

Scope and Sequence Chart for

ONEPrekindergartenand Kindergarten

•pitches:high, low, and middle;up, down, and same

•patterns:same and different

•clapping, moving,and feeling beats

•rhythm bandinstruments

TWOGrades 1 and 2

•steps, skips,repeated pitches

•syllables:so-mi, so-la, so-la-mi

•singing activities

•measures•meters•note and rest values

• instrumental families:stringbrasswoodwindpercussion

THREEGrades 3 and 4

•syllables:do-re-mi, do-mi-so,do-re-mi-so, do-mi-so-la

•singing: breathing,phonation, pitch accuracy

•additional note and rest values

•meters andtime signatures

•keyboard and fretted instruments

FOURGrades 5 and 6

•syllables:do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do,major scales, octaves

•singing: enunciation andresonant tone production

•additional note and rest values

•ties•triplets

• individual orchestralinstruments

FIVEGrades 7 and 8

• major and minor scales•chromatics• intervals•key signatures•expressive singing

•syncopation•time signatures•mixed meters

•vocal and instrumentalensembles

PITCH & RHYTHM &LEVEL SINGING MOVEMENT TIMBRE

• loud and soft•fast and slow

•patterns:same and different

•Haydn:“Surprise Symphony”

•Dvorak:“Humoresque”

•“Alleluia”•“Lord, Have Mercy”•“From Heaven Above

to Earth I Come”

•changes in dynamics•changes in tempo

•textures:thick and thin

•phrases:same and different

•Saint-Saens:“Carnival of the Animals”

•Prokofiev: “Peter and the Wolf”

•psalms•“Create in Me”•“Lamb of God”•“A Mighty Fortress

Is Our God”•“Savior of the

Nations, Come”

•basic terms •part-singing readiness:roundsostinatospartner songs

•ABA and song forms

•Purcell•Beethoven•Mozart•Handel

•“Glory Be to God”•“Holy, Holy, Holy”•“Lord, Keep Us Steadfast

in Your Word”•“Dear Christians,

One and All, Rejoice”

•Dictionary of Music Terms I

•repeat signs•two- and three-part

vocal settings

•Pachelbel•Bach•Mozart•Chopin

•“Song of Simeon”•“Thank the Lord”•“Oh, Taste and See”•“Let My Prayer Rise

before You”•“Song of Mary”•Luther’s

“Catechism Hymns”•The Common Service•Service of Word and

Sacrament•Evening Prayer

•Dictionary ofMusic Terms II

• larger forms•vocal settings for

changing voices•key signatures•scales•chords

•von Suppe•Brahms•Bizet•Dvorak•Elgar•Massenet•Rimsky-Korsakov

•“Oh, Come, Let Us Sing tothe Lord”

•“We Praise You, O God”•alternate liturgical songs•Morning Praise•Luther’s German Mass

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