Sheet Music Mania!: The Sequel | July 2011
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Hi MMF! Family,

More sheet music for you this month, with a focus on Russian composers and Russian folk music. If you send your students home with one of these Russian composer favorites, ask them to come back with their practiced piece and a completed job application worksheet for this composer. The link to the 'Meet the Composer' Job Application is at the end of the newsletter.

Quick note...
You may have not heard, but a company made an offer to purchase MakingMusicFun.net. It would have meant paying off my car, a swanky vacation, and a little extra money in the bank, but I decided to decline. With almost every sheet music website functioning as a subscription service, the sale could have quite possibly meant the end of free sheet music for you and your students, and any number of other changes.

I love the opportunity to bring you good things, at a nice price (free), so here we go.

Free Sheet Music

Piano
Swan Lake (Theme) for Piano Solo by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Dance for Piano Solo by Dmitri Kabalevsky
Beriozka (The Birch Tree) for Piano Solo | Russian
Volga Boatman for Piano Solo | Russian
March Slav for Piano Solo by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Trepak for Piano Solo by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Arabian Dance (Nutcracker) for Piano Solo by Tchaikovsky
Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy (Nutcracker) for Piano Solo by Tchaikovsky
Scheherezade (Theme) for Piano Solo by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Waltz for Piano Solo by Dmitri Kabalevsky
Chinese Dance (Nutcracker) for Piano Solo by Tchaikovsky
Dance of the Reeds (Nutcracker) for Piano Solo by Tchaikovsky
March from the Nutcracker for Piano Solo by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Night on Bald Mountain for Piano Solo by Modest Mussorgsky
Tarantella for Piano Solo by A. Pieczonka
Waltz of the Flowers for Piano Solo by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Here's our newest edition - Russian Sailor's Dance from the Red Poppy. I've been wanting to add this one for awhile, and I am so happy with the new arrangement. I hope you enjoy it!

Russian Sailor's Dance for Piano Solo by Reinhold Gliere

Instrumental with Piano
March Slav for Clarinet Solo by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Sleeping Beauty Waltz for Clarinet Solo by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Sleeping Beauty Waltz for Trumpet Solo by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
March Slav by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky for Violin Solo
March Slav for Viola Solo by Tchaikovsky
March Slav for Cello Solo by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

'Meet the Composer' Job Application
Download this worksheet and send your students off with a copy at the end of their lesson. A completed worksheet might be worthy of a special prize, or a sticker on your studio sticker chart for meeting the goals that you set.

'Meet the Composer' Job Application | Free Worksheet

Brand New Award Certificate
I had a request from a fellow teacher to add a recorder award certificate. I hope you will enjoy rewarding your students with it this Fall.

"Way To Go! Recorder Student Award Certificate

Thanks for your interest in our resources,

Andy Fling
Owner/Teacher

Shelly Nierman
Website Development Associate/Teacher

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