Music K-8 Magazine Information
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The Future's Calling Us (22/5) |
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Wide Open Spaces (22/5) |
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This Flag We Fly (22/5) |
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A Bunch Of Animals (22/5) |
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Start Your Day With A Song (22/4) |
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Cherry Blossoms (22/4) |
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Emerald Isle (22/4) |
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I'd Rather Be Happy (22/3) |
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The Cool Bass Clef (22/3) |
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Santa's Getting Fit For Christmas (22/2) |
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Will You Be Here This December? (22/2) |
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I Count My Blessings (22/2) |
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Positive (22/1) |
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A Long, Long Journey To Heal (22/1) |
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Hey Jack! (22/1) |
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Why Music? (20/3) |
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Taps (21/5) |
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Somebody Stole My Cow! (21/5) |
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We Believe In Music (21/4) |
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Waiting For The Spring (21/4) |
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Jazz Is On Its Way (21/3) |
New Music In Every Issue... An Incomparable Value!
Each new issue of Music K-8 includes eight or more, never-before published works with full rights for you to photocopy them for use with your students. In fact, the magazine has averaged more than eight songs per issue, including one complete musical revue per year! Each full-length song is carefully arranged with a playable piano accompaniment and chord symbols (if appropriate). Created by respected composers and arrangers, these songs come in a variety of styles (Latin, rock, country, jazz, rap, ballad, and hip-hop, to name a few), with such options as teaching suggestions, student instrumental parts, and/or simple movement. Students love these quality selections, which are available nowhere else.
You'll get five music-packed issues per year, arriving bimonthly throughout the school year. If you use only one song per issue, you will have saved more than the price of a subscription... a real value in these days of shrinking budgets.
Student Reproducible Parts can save you even more money, as well as time, and are available in physical or downloadable format. Click to learn more.
Wait 'til you see what you get in Volume 22
The twenty-second year of Music K-8 (the 2011-2012 school year), is full of more great music, including the new character-building musical revue Positive, which will be completed by the third issue. As with our first twenty-one years, you will find that each song in the revue will stand on its own if you aren't performing the whole work. In addition, there are seasonal and other topical works in each issue to add more to your teaching repertoire.
PowerPoint® Song Lyric Pages!
Starting with Vol. 22, No. 1, lyrics to virtually all songs recorded in the magazine will be on PowerPoints for you to use with projectors, and any form of interactive teaching boards. And they are FREE ... a bonus available to all registered subscribers to Vol. 22.
Performance/Accompaniment Compact Discs
A special Performance/Accompaniment CD is available for each issue, at a very reasonable cost, with each containing the recorded music from a single issue. The recording gives you two fully orchestrated versions of every song: one in full performance with children's voices, and one with accompaniment only, to free your hands in rehearsals and give you more polished performances. Since the first CD is free, the cost is less than $1.50-2.00 per song, a real bargain when you compare it to the quality and price of other recordings on the market, which often cost as much as $15.95 per song! Download our free samplers and hear the quality we build into everything we do. If you prefer, you can subscribe to our Music K-8 Sampler Music Podcast.
Network - Teachers Exchanging Great Ideas
Share ideas with teachers around the country in this unique forum. Every issue features several pages of great ideas from our subscribers, including bulletin board ideas (often with photos or illustrations), games to help teach musical concepts, songs, rounds, unit ideas, lesson plans, ideas for classroom management, rewards, discipline, performance concepts, listening aids, and anecdotes about the world of elementary music.
The regular Photo Journal feature includes idea-filled pictures from teachers all around the world. And since we pay for everything we publish, you may find that your good ideas and pictures will pay for your subscription.
And Much, Much More...
As if this weren't enough, each issue also includes Reproducibles, Games, Special Features, and/or Seasonal Resources, all designed for immediate use in your classroom. And to top it off, there are regular features like Quodlibet, full of fun, philosophy and handy information. All of this for an unbelievably low price!
This is one magazine you won't ever want to throw out. Stop missing out: Subscribe or renew now!
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What Subscribers Say About Music K-8
"Do you all ever rest? How do you come up with these amazing pieces time after time?"
- Nebraska
"I wouldn't change a thing. I love your music, I use it in all my concerts, and the kids love to perform it. The parents are always raving about my shows."
- New York
"So here I am, wondering what to do with NO budget. I bought Music K-8 with my own $$ (which I've been doing for years). With issue 2 alone, I have practically everything I need: After-school choir will LOVE "The Holly and the Ivy," "Hear Those Bells," and "We Will Jingle" (LOL)! I needed something for all the kids to sing for Grandparents' Day (the day before Thanksgiving Break, and a VERY big deal at our school): Whoo-HOO! -- "Come Ye Thankful People Come" and "I Count My Blessings." We're supposed to do an international emphasis this year, especially including other languages ... Wheee!: "Celebramos" and even the Hawaiian one will work nicely."
- Colorado
"I absolutely love your publication. I tell everyone I can about it. I find myself grabbing it again and again for quality songs and fabulous orchestrations. It is imaginative and enriching in so many ways. It is the one resource that doesn't gather dust on my shelves! Thank you all."
- Arkansas
"Music K-8 magazine has been such a "lifesaver" for me, after teaching music at all grade levels for 40 years! ...I am amazed how you all continue to crank-out more and more quality, musical [revues] and excellent accompaniment CDs for them, classroom singing and for recorders! You, at Plank Road, have been an inspiration to all of us for years!"
- Colorado







