Recorder, Soprano $5.00 Plastic recorder with cleaning tool, joint lubricant, instruction sheet and handy zippered storyage case. All ages.
Do It! Play Recorder Book and CD Set $9.95 Instruction book with audio CD for learning soprano recorder. Includes helpful musical dictionary, step-by-step instructions to note-playing, tone quality, tempo, melody, rhythm, articlation, phrasing, plus accompaniment music for student play-along. Ages 8+.
Music Masters Set 1 CD $39.00 Six CD's, 60 minutes each. Narrator tells the life of each composer and describes the circumstances under which his most famous pieces were composed. Narration is interspersed with generous selections from the composer's work. Set One includes Bach, Mozart, Chopin, Schumann/Greig, Mendelssohn and Schubert. All ages.
Music Masters Set 2 CD $39.00 Six CD's, 60 minutes each. Narrator tells the life of each composer and describes the circumstances under which his most famous pieces were composed. Narration is interspersed with generous selections from the composer's work. Set 2 includes Handel, Beethoven, Wagner, Dvorak, Haydn, and Vivaldi/Corelli. All ages.
Music Masters Set 3 CD $39.00 Six CD's, 60 minutes each. Narrator tells the life of each composer and describes the circumstances under which his most famous pieces were composed. Narration is interspersed with generous selections from the composer's work. Set 3 Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Strauss, Verdi, Berlioz, and Foster/Sousa. All ages.
St. Gregory Hymnal $10.50 Abridged reprint of the 1920 edition. (The Mass setting have been removed.) Contains 163 English and Latin hymns that every Catholic should know and sing. Hymns for Lent, Advent, Christmas, Easter, saints' days and Marian celebrations. Use it for family devotions, children’s choir, piano lessons. Musical arrangement for piano or four-part voice. Spiral-bound, softcover.
Wee Sing America CD and Book Set $9.99 64-page booklet with musical notation, 1-hour CD with 53 songs, sayings and speeches that every American should know. Patriotic songs, cowboy songs, work songs, folk songs. All ages.
Let's Learn Music: Book 1 $6.95 For Grades 1-2. Topics include:
Whole Note and Whole Rest
Half Note and Half Rest
Review
Quarter Note and Quarter Rest
Time(4/4)
Scale and Syllables
Songs
Suggestions to the Teacher
Glossary of Terms
Let's Learn Music: Book 2 $6.95 For Grades 3-4. Topics include:
Chromatic Signs
Measures
Time Signatures
Musical Arithmetic
Dot
Eighth Note
Eighth Rest
Sixteenth Notes an Rests
Thirty-second Notes an Rests
Sixty-fourth Notes an Rests
Review
Symbols
Songs
Let's Learn Music: Book 3 $6.95 For Grades5-6. Topics include:
The Staff
Letter Names of Lines
Letter Names of Spaces
Lines and Spaces
Review of Notes and Rests
Finding the Key
Chords
Scales
Songs and Syllables
Whole Steps and Half Steps
The Orchestra
Lingua Angelica CD $11.95 Listen to and learn twenty-eight traditional Latin prayers and hymns. The quality and content of this CD is truly superior. Includes Dona Nobis Pacem, Stabat Mater, Pange Lingua, Panis Angelicus, Ubi Caritas, Venie Veni Emmanuel, Ave Verum Corpus, Tantum Ero, Adorote Devote, Ave Maria, In Pradisum, Requiem Aeternam, and many others.
Lingua Angelica Song Book $9.95 Printed music for twenty-eight Latin hymns and prayers, plus brief historical sketch of each piece. Some are single-note chant, most are trebel and bass clef piano score. Includes Dona Nobis Pacem, Stabat Mater, Pange Lingua, Panis Angelicus, Ubi Caritas, Venie Veni Emmanuel, Ave Verum Corpus, Tantum Ero, Adorote Devote, Ave Maria, In Pradisum, Requiem Aeternam, and many others.
Lingua Angelica Student Book I $11.95 By Cheryl Lowe. Seventy-four pages of exercises and Latin grammar charts for student practice based on the lyrics of the Latin hymns and prayers in the Song Book and CD. The Teacher Manual offers a suggested schedule for coordinating lessons with Latina Christiana.
Lingua Angelica Teacher Manual $16.95 Answer Key to Lingua Angelica Student Book, plus brief notes on how to coordinate this program with the study of Latin in Latina Christiana I and II.
Lingua Angelica, Set 1 $39.95 By Cheryl Lowe. Designed as a Latin translation course based on hymns and prayers, this unique program is of interest to all Catholics. It may be used independetly, or in conjunction with Latina Christiana. I recommend that every family own and listen to the CD--it is absolutely beautiful! The Song Book can be used by beginning musicians or homeschool choirs to learn the twenty-eight sacred songs, while the reproducible Workbook and the Teacher Manual will enrich the study of Latin for more serious students. The program is intended for use over a three-year period. Components can be purchased separately.
Joseph Gelineau: Psalms of David $16.95 The Cathedral Singers; Richard Prouls Conductor perform Joseph Gelineau: Psalms of David. Eighteen selections include:
Psalm 8: How Great is Your Name
Psalm 19: The Heaven Proclaim
Psalm 23: Lord, You Are My Shepherd
Psalm 24: The Lord's Is the Earth
Psalm 33: Ring Out Your Joy to the World
Psalm 40: I Waited, I Waited for the Lord
Psalm 47: All Peoples, Clap Your Hands
Psalm 62: In God Alone
Psalm 91: Those Who Dwell
Psalm 96: O Sing a New Song to the Lord
Psalm 97: The Lord is King
Psalm 116: I Love the Lord
Psalm 122: I Rejoiced When I Heard Them Say
Psalm 128: O Blessed Are You
Psalm 130: Out of the Depths
Psalm 131: O Lord, My Heart is not Proud
Psalm 145: I Will Give You Glory
Psalm 148: Praise the Lord from the Heavens
Music of the Great Composers $21.99 For music lovers who want to better understand the works of the masters. This practical book lets you select a listening program that's based and your needs and interests. This removes the intimidation from "highbrow" music, taking it out of its ivory tower so everyone can enjoy it. Patrick Kavanugh is also the author of "Spiritual Moments with the Great Composers" and "Raising Musical Kids".
Lingua Angelica Set 2 $28.90 This set of Teacher and Student Texts continues the study of Latin begun in Lingua Angelica Set 1. Lessons are based on the more difficult grammatical forms found in the next 12 hymns on the Lingua Angelica CD. Lingua Angelica Set 1 and Latina Christiana 1 are prerequisites. Latina Christiana 2 may be studied concurrently with this program.
Ready-to-Use Music Activities Kit $32.95 by Audrey Adair. Over 200 fun-filled activities to build basic skills in music theory, singing, composing, listening, ear training and instruments of the band and orchestra. Reproducible worksheet format.
How Catholics Can Sing, CD $6.95 A short lesson in Gregorian Chant by Father Joseph Fessio, S.J. On this CD, Father explains the historical background and Church documents relating to music in the liturgy, what "active participation" of the laity really means, and the difference between "singing AT Mass" and singing THE Mass". The talk is followed by simple lessons in singing the Ordinary of the Mass. This is a very helpful and practical talk for anyone who wants to appreciate more fully the priceless musical heritage of the Catholic Church. Includes one printed music page.