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It's time for the family reunion at Symphony Hall and the instruments are starting to arrive! Here comes the Brass family - what a blast, and the Stringfamily always gets here early so they can sit in the front! Look who's marching down the street; it's the Percussion family, and at last, the Woodwinds have arrived - the whole reedy bunch and more! Join Maestro Luigi and his trusted baton for a multi-media study of the instruments of the orchestra like never before! Your students will enjoy humorous story-telling, original songs and listening maps of orchestral recordings that feature each family. A DIGITAL STUDENT edition comes with the Teacher Edition, so everything can be projected from your computer! The enclosed CD-ROM features full-color PDFs of the stories, vocal songsheets, and listening maps - all with embedded audio and video recordings so you can listen, watch, sing or dance with a single click! Join John as he shows you the choreography for eachsong. And there's more - click on a picture of each instrument and hear a short sound clip - great for review and assessment! The Teacher Edition offerseasy-to-present lesson plans linked to the National Standards for all the material and piano/vocal song arrangements with printed choreography notes. This incredible interactive resource is a must for every music library!

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