PIED PIPER MUSIC

Pied Piper Publishing & Pied Piper Music have a selection of core focuses, however are rapidly expanding to cater for continual change and audience demand in the markets of music production, education and publishing. Pied Piper Music itself concentrates on releasing recorded music by Maryanne Piper. It provides CDs and digital formats, and will soon begin with the distribution of selected corresponding scores. Pied Piper Music also brings a range of digital media to the hands of our students and teachers to assist with integrated learning, as well as innovative communication strategies in the learning process.

Our publishing division produces quality online arrangements for 'mix & match' ensembles, incorporating interesting parts for different playing levels to ensure all of your students can be involved in a group music-making experience. A variety of parts, already transposed and with different technical levels in mind, cater for the mixed instruments and student levels often encountered in teaching situations. A range of genres are covered from popular to folk, classical arrangements and Jazz tunes. Several tunes introducing the basics of improvisation are also included in the range.

Pied Piper Publishing provides quality online resources for educators, students and performers in the art of teaching, learning, practising, as well as how the human body translates, reacts to and deals with the musical process. A range of articles, exercises, lesson plans, workshop ideas, booklets and further information will be available soon - some for free, some for an extremely reasonable price. Expand and extend your didactic methods in a variety of situations, empower students from a young age to be independent learners, share activities together with your students that encourage greater awareness during the musical process, and cultivate greater effectiveness and efficiency in learning.

Pied Piper provides a new range of interesting and appropriate material for very young children in the area of wind performance. From Maryanne's wide teaching experience, many student books whizz through the beginning stages of instrumental technique and note learning very quickly, assuming students are of an older age and can process physical co-ordination and musical skills at a faster rate. The very young need repetition, as well as more repertoire, with CD or piano accompaniment, dealing with the first stages of playing technique and beginning musical elements. Positive musical experience equals more students staying with their instrument for longer.

Online resources for Theatre KEKSE are also distributed through Pied Piper Publications. Developed as follow up, after-performance activities for teachers and their students in the classroom: musical development & creative activities complimentary to the theme are included, as well as core material for English as a Second Language. Language worksheets for students to use together with the original book from the show address a number of vocabulary, grammar, creative writing and pronunciation activities for classroom English lessons. Suggested lesson plans, along with CDs featuring Theatre KEKSE's music can also be purchased in an 'Education Bundle', providing teachers with many sensory learning ideas.

Pied Piper Publications & Music are working to provide quality digital additions to the educational experiences listed in this section. We are committed to providing exceptional material for a continually changing market by supporting and integrating current communication technology in our material development and delivery. Sharing resources, knowledge, skill development and awareness in an ACCESSIBLE manner for everyone, regardless of geography or socio-economic status, are key strategies for a successful, safe and connected future together on our planet. Music & the Arts are an important element in this process - their role and benefits should not be underestimated.