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GIA music education releases span improvisation and choir

GIA music education releases span improvisation and choir

GIA Publications’ 2026 music education releases include resources for improvisation, classroom movement, world song traditions and choral repertoire, according to the publisher’s catalog.

Learning to Improvise, by Cynthia Taggart and David Potter, is intended for elementary general music as well as middle and high school choir. GIA describes teaching plans, songs and audio recordings designed to support improvisation skills for students and teachers.

Make It Music, by Anthony Molinaro and Stephen Neely, draws on Dalcroze Eurhythmics and includes more than 200 movement-prompt cards divided among four decks. The publisher also lists Shadows in the Moonlight, a collection of 43 traditional songs from the Middle East by Joan Litman, Wassim Ibrahim and Karen Howard.

For choral educators, Choral Repertoire by Women Composers, by Hilary Apfelstadt and Alan Troy Davis, lists nearly 2,000 works and highlights more than 200 composers, GIA says.

Other listed resources include Randy Eyles’ Scales for Keyboard Percussion and Daniel Gregerman’s The Music Educator’s Rescue Kit. These titles are among the publisher’s broader offerings for music teachers and ensembles.

For more information, visit giamusic.com.