Schools and Instruction Books

This book is amazing! Although the focus is mainly on conducting Intelligence Interviews, it offers a plethora of strategies to use both in the classroom and at home. The book encourages you to determine each students' intelligence profile and then to implement learning strategies that will complement the way they learn. It is highly organized and very easy to follow.

this is the companion vol. to bloom's major blues book. it's the same thing, only minor. that is to say, tricky voicings that are fun to analyze
and play, once the technique is brought up to speed. rhythmic examples on the cd are tops and fun to play over. the information in the book/cd is well-laid out and easily digested. the musical benefits were immediate. what makes this a great learning/practice book is that it's challenging and rewarding concurrently. can't ask for much more than that from a book.

a fresh sound essential for any student of modern blues.

This article, written by one of the most attractive women on the planet, is sooooo good. It is scholarly, funny, brilliant and a joy to read, and the sexy parts are, well, darn sexy. I don't think i have ever read anything better than this, including Gone With My Wind by Orson Wells, or David Kopperfield, by the noted Dutch author, Charles Dikkens. Too bad this is out of print.

This text is a great resource for any teacher who wants or needs to use music in their classroom. Many times as music educators we are expected to teach in areas we do not feel the best at. As a music teacher this will add to your confidence and give you creative ideas for class. As a classroom teacher, it will help you understand music and music notation beyond what your students need so that you feel confident to teach the basics to your students and use music as a supplemental tool in your teaching. I highly recommend this text.

The quality of both the book and the recordings in this set is excellent. The activities are so flexible that I use the kit for both a college-level "music in the classroom" course and a kindergarten music class. The book consists of worksheets designed by Gwen Hotchkiss to teach a variety of musical and interdisciplinary skills--everything from rhythm reading to spelling animal names. It is simply an excellent resource!

With its beautiful photographs and the variety of music discussed, this is the perfect music appreciation text for the high school level!! It covers a variety of musical careers and performers/composers. The music is not approached in the traditional "boring" way, and students get excited about what they are learning about. A must-have for any high school!!!

As a Canadian I usually read and advocate Canadian authors especially in the area of multiculturalism as it affects education. Why? Because CANADA is the only country in the world that proclaims MULTICULTURALISM AS NATIONAL LAW. However, I found this book very valuable in gaining a perspective on multiculturalism as it has developed in Anglophone countries around the world (I'm not sure why Volk includes Germany here though).

If you are doing research on multiculturalism and the arts in education, I highly recommend this book for a historical perspective on the topic. Volk is thorough and well read and remains as truthful and to the point at possible when discussing such blatant dichotomies that exist in the American psyche as world promotion of peace in association with the UN whilst maintaining racism and desegregation at home.

The best book if you want to know that group of artists.The authors really know their subject well because they wrote many books about them.ANTOINE TERRASSE's book on BONNARD is not expensive and well worth buying.Here, you'll meet the two masters who were lifelong friends;you'll also get to know MAILLOL the famous sculptor and VALLOTON along with other lesser known artists.The NABIS's principal inspiration when they started was PAUL GAUGUIN.After that, each one through the years worked as decorators for theaters and also as illustrators for revues like LA REVUE BLANCHE.Like in all movement, they as we often say found their own territory outside the movement who served as their platform.

In Naive Art, Art scholar Natalia Brodskaia draws upon her experience and expertise as a curator at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg to showcase a genre of art that is marked by innocence, naturalness, and spontaneity of the untaught and self-taught artist. These so called "primitive" artists first came into prominence for an American public with Grandma Moses, whose work first established the legitimacy and broad based popularity of "naive art". But this category of art stretches back into the mid-19th century as Brodskaia amply documents with her sweeping and informative survey. Profusely illustrated in color with small, medium, full page, and occasional double-page paintings, Naive Art is an enthusiastically recommended addition to personal, academic, and community library art history and art reference book collections.

This is an incredible resourse for a serious singer or teacher of singing. It examines the different historical theories of singing and informs the reader which techniques are now considered the best to use. An easy reading and fascinating.