The song is a symphonic march and is recorded with orchestra on the Performance/Accompaniment Compact Disc. Whatever you decide to do with your program, we're hoping that 'This Is America' will help to get you started. You could even do a whole segment on the American flag - its history, stories about it, songs about it, and its role as a symbol of America. Maybe you'd rather focus on the more human aspects of America like spirit, unity, patriotism, and celebrating our freedoms. You could include dialog about the branches of the government or the Constitution or voting or why we celebrate The Fourth of July (you'd be surprised how many people don't know).

Or perhaps you'd like to make it more educational for the performers and audience alike. For example, you might wish to incorporate historical themes, such as stories of the early patriots (like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, or Benjamin Franklin), the American Revolution, the writing and signing of the Declaration of Independence, etc. Also, we figured you could choose to focus on different aspects of patriotism. A small sampling of tunes is included below.Ībout the Audio Recordings Audio recordings contain full performance and accompaniment only (instrumental) tracks.The opening song for the revue has the same name - 'This Is America.' We wanted to craft a thematic title song that would allow you to create your own patriotic program whether you use the rest of the revue or not. To hear sound clips from and read details about any song in any issue, visit the Past Issues area. And with our combo option, you get the best of both worlds: a physical and downloadable copy of the magazine components. Student Reproducible Parts, which are available separately for this entire volume, contain every recorded tune with the singers' parts extracted for fast, less expensive photocopying.ĭownloadable versions of the full back volume are now available. In the magazine, we provide a Piano/Vocal Part and illustrated Lyric Page for most of the songs. Probably the most popular one has been the fact that a subscriber has the right to legally reproduce the music in each magazine for every student she or he teaches, no matter how many schools or students are involved. Music K-8 magazine has introduced a number of new concepts to the area of elementary music publishing. We are offering all five issues and the recordings that go with them as specially boxed sets to save you money.

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