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Music Express is a Primary class teacher’s resource and a complete music scheme, which includes everything needed to implement the QCDA Scheme of Work for Music. It comprises a week-by-week curriculum using books and CD-ROMs, containing music activities, lesson plans, worksheets and CD recordings. The Music Express series is published by A&C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. Additional free resources include an ideas bank, downloads and lesson plans, assessment sheets and a guide to classroom percussion, in addition to a Songfinder database that will be launching soon.

Contents
The Music Express series is for children aged 3-12; the series begins with Early Years Foundation Stage and goes up to Year 7.

Book 7 is itself split into six books, each with a different focus:

Music Express Extra
Music Express World Beats - Exploring rhythms from different cultures. Teachers can discover, along with their class, how to play percussion styles from the UK, Ghana, Japan, Brazil, Cuba and India. Each section contains games and activities that build towards complete performance pieces.

Listening to Music History - Recordings of world and historical music provide the basis for a range of listening, composing and performing opportunities - enhanced by interactive whiteboard activities and displays with embedded audio.

Percussion Players - Developed for 7-11 year olds, Percussion Players contains over 30 games, activities and tunes to play using classroom percussion. Each pack includes CD demonstrations and backing tracks to play along with, as well as brand new interactive versions of activities and photocopiable printouts to play from.

Developing Music Skills - The pack (book + 2xCD/CD-ROM) contains activities for building skill and confidence in using beat, rhythm and pitch. 36 specially composed listening tracks engage young learners in moving, co-ordinating and responding musically. 8 celebration tracks give opportunities for bringing together newly established skills in performance. Suitable for use from age 8 upwards, the pack offers ways of extending music skills with older or more able students.

Listening to Music Elements Age 5+ - The first title in the Listening to Music series brings together music from China, West Africa, India, South America and Europe - an eclectic mix of traditional, historical and contemporary music. Through the activities, children recognise and use the building blocks of music: long and short sounds, high and low, loud and quiet, fast and slow. They perform their own versions of some of the recordings and they compose others - always listening perceptively to their own and others music.

Listening to Music Elements Age 7+ - Listening to Music is a series which actively engages children in listening to music so that they can perform it and compose it themselves. Each pack comprises a visually exciting book, a CD of all the recordings, and a CD-ROM of interactive whiteboard activities and printouts.

Songbooks
The Music Express Songbooks were published in 2003. There are two of them; the first is a compilation of all the songs from Music Express Books 1 and 2, for Key Stage 1 and the second contains the songs from Music Express Books 3-6. The Songbooks are specially created for music readers, and are a useful reference and performance resource for music specialist teachers. They feature piano accompaniments and guitar chords, and can be used alongside the Music Express scheme or on their own as a valuable resource of new and familiar songs.

Music Express Interactive
Music Express Interactive CD-ROMs – supplementary interactive versions of activities from the complete scheme.

Reviews and reception
"It is really easily set out and comes with all resources. It also helps people who are not so confident with music and it gives lots of good tunes".

"Fantastic activities that really help to establish a good grounding in the basics - divided into 3 categories - beat, rhythm and pitch - perfect for use with whole class instrumental lessons".

"Music Express Year 6 provides a year's worth of teaching activities for the music classroom that pupils will find exciting, thought provoking and fun".

Research
Early Years Foundation Stage framework

Teaching Music website

National Association of Music Educators

Sing Up

A&C Black's Singing Express

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