Paul Harris

Teaching beginners is a huge responsibility and a challenge, but also reaps enormous rewards. Today there are a host of colourful tutors to choose from, but none tells us how to teach beginners. It can be a hit and miss affair! Energising and inspirational, Improve your teaching! Teaching Beginners is a must-have resource for all instrumental and singing teachers. Written by the UK's leading music educationalist Paul Harris, it is packed full of comprehensive advice and practical strategies, it offers creative yet accessible solutions to the challenges faced in music education. Written in an approachable style and distilled from years of personal experience and research Paul Harris looks at the issues concerning the teaching of beginners, outlining a series of principals, advice and strategies, discussing: How to approach the first lesson, Practice ideas for beginners, Introducing the tutor book and notation, Taking stock and moving forward, Inheriting pupils, Improvisation and Composition for beginners. A companion to the best-selling Improve your teaching!, this book is guaranteed to challenge, affirm and energise your teaching!

The Chamberlains – father Joe and sons Austen and Neville – are probably the country’s best-known political family. Synonymous with Birmingham, they achieved both local fame and fortune and, with Neville’s appointment as prime minister, the highest national office. Together, they transformed late Victorian Birmingham into ‘the best-governed city in the world’. This book is richly illustrated with archive photographs from the Birmingham Central Library (located, of course, in Chamberlain Square) as well as political cartoons from national magazines such as Punch and local publications such as The Era, The Lion, The Dart and The Owl.Documenting the family’s far-reaching influence on their adopted home town, from their political and business legacies to the buildings, streets and memorials that now carry their name, it also aims to present a picture of the private lives of the family: their relationships with their spouses, children and extended family, their hobbies and interests, and the houses and gardens they lived in. Birmingham and the Chamberlains provides a fascinating insight into the Chamberlain’s legacy, and will delight anyone who has lived or worked in the city.

Improve your teaching! is a must-have handbook for all instrumental and singing teachers. Packed full of comprehensive advice and practical strategies, it offers creative yet accessible solutions to the challenges faced in music education. It outlines Paul Harris's innovative strategy of Simultaneous Learning: a method that encourages the development of musical insight by making connections between all aspects of musicianship and discusses topics including lesson preparation, aural and memory work, effective practice, improvisation and composition, sight-reading and group teaching. Cleverly fusing established teaching techniques with fresh and exciting ideas Improve your teaching! represents a modern and holistic approach to musical instruction.

This book is a unique photographic record of a journey along the Kent coastline. From the starkness of Dungeness in the south to the magisterial sweep of Dartford Bridge in the north, the descriptions of Paul Harris and the contemporary photographs of Ray Hollands capture the county’s rich variety of town- and landscape, its ancient fortifications and modern harbours, its busy riverways, hidden creeks and isolated headlands. But it is above all the unusual, the hidden and the bizarre that this book reveals: the images presented here record both precise moments in time and place and yet suggest timeless, almost sculptural qualities. Whether the scene be dramatic or everyday, whether the site be well known or unfrequented, Along the Kent Coast offers a new perspective that will continuously surprise and delight both those familiar with Kent and the tourist or traveller just passing through. These are images to treasure, to look at and cherish time and time again.

Paul Harris’s Basics Series is widely regarded as the leading method for beginner players and their teachers. This edition of Clarinet Basics Pupil’s book offers a fresh design, clear technical drawings, fun illustrations, new activities, pull-out fingering chart and of course all of the great tunes featured in the original Clarinet Basics. Starting at absolute beginner level and progressing to about Grade 2, it contains: warm ups and fun original exercisesinvaluable fact files, quizzes and technical advice covering notation, general musicianship and care of the instrumenthelpful fingering diagrams and rhythm boxespull-out fingering chart to pin on your wallOnline audio featuring piano and clarinet accompaniments to play along with.

Compose Yourself! is the indispensable resource for all teachers of composition. Emphasising a holistic and practical approach to composition, this book offers: fifty lesson plans for the over-worked music teacher, and ideas for listening, discussion, notation, improvisation and performance activities. Information is divided into helpful, ‘bite-size’ sections that support Key Stages 3 and 4. It offers ideal preparation for the composition element of Music GCSE and Trinity practical examinations. The corresponding pupil’s workbook, available in packs of ten, contains twenty-two worksheets.

This work contains around 150 detailed photographs of the county of Kent, taken from the Frith archive. It features extended captions to pictures,a full introduction, and a voucher for a free mounted print.

A collection of approximately 100 detailed period photographs from the Francis Frith archive with extended captions and full introduction. It is suitable for tourists, local historians and general readers. The volume includes a voucher for a free mounted print of any photograph shown in the book.

The essential handbook for instrumental and singing teachers, relevant for working at home or in schools, full-time or part-time, teaching individuals or groups. Contains advice, information and pragmatic solutions to teaching problems. Deals with the quality of teaching and learning, such as monitoring achievement, motivation and progress. Discusses concepts and strategies that have often been unquestioned during years of teaching, and includes ideas that may surprise and challenge. Contains forms for lesson plans, pupil profiles, termly overviews and attendance registers.

Two by Two presents twenty mixed-ability duets for clarinet, selected and edited by Paul Harris. With favourite classics by Mozart alongside work from composers such as Lefèvre and Lazarus, plus some original pieces by Paul Harris.

Paul Harris’s Basics Series is widely regarded as the leading method for beginner players and their teachers. Clarinet Basics Teacher’s book contains piano and clarinet accompaniments for the pieces in Clarinet Basics Pupil's book along with a general introduction and guidance for teachers. Starting at beginner level and progressing to Grade 2, this edition offers a fresh design, clear technical drawings, and includes all of the great tunes featured in the original Clarinet Basics, as well as: • a wide range of repertoire, including original pieces and well-loved favourites from every genre • warm ups and fun original exercises • invaluable fact files, quizzes and technical advice covering notation, general musicianship and care of the instrument • helpful fingering diagrams and rhythm boxes • duets throughout – ideal for group teaching • pull-out fingering chart to pin on your wall

Drawing on the traditions of the past, The Prairie Water Garden takes novice and experienced gardeners alike through the process of designing, constructing and maintaining water garden getaways both small and large. But it also adapts those traditions to the peculiarities of an extreme prairie climate.

Know your scales! Trumpet Grades 1-3 is the bright, fresh way to learn scales and arpeggios - a scale book without scales! Using 'finger fitness' exercises, scale and arpeggio study pieces, and simple improvisations, Paul Harris's brilliant approach teaches students to know the notes and thus to play scales and arpeggios with real confidence. As well as prompting a solid basis for the learning repertoire and sight-reading techniques, this invaluable resource for students covers all the keys and ranges required for the ABRSM examination syllabus, helping you pick up those valuable extra marks.

The Cambridge Clarinet Tutor is a comprehensive and stimulating introduction to clarinet playing. Through the sixteen progressive stages the beginner will develop the technical skills and musicianship necessary to establish a love and understanding of the clarinet and its music. Each stage comprises thorough technical exercises, scales and arpeggios where relevant, a study, duets for pupil and teacher, a piece with piano accompaniment and a work introducing the player to the more traditional repertoire. The new studies and pieces composed by Paul Harris for the tutor are the result of many years' teaching experience, and will add significantly to the music available for the early stages of clarinet playing. The colourful melodies, rhythms and harmonies combine to make valuable teaching material and, from the beginning, excite the musical imagination of the pupil.

The Cambridge Clarinet Tutor is a comprehensive and stimulating introduction to clarinet playing. Through the sixteen progressive stages the beginner will develop the technical skills and musicianship necessary to establish a love and understanding of the clarinet and its music. Each stage comprises thorough technical exercises, scales and arpeggios where relevant, a study, duets for pupil and teacher, a piece with piano accompaniment and a work introducing the player to the more traditional repertoire. The new studies and pieces composed by Paul Harris for the tutor are the result of many years’ teaching experience, and will add significantly to the music available for the early stages of clarinet playing. The colourful melodies, rhythms and harmonies combine to make valuable teaching material and, from the beginning, excite the musical imagination of the pupil.