A Composer's Insight, Volume 1 – with a foreword by Michael Colgrass – is the first in a five-volume series on major contemporary composers and their works for wind band. Included in this initial volume are rare,...
This familiar Oriental folk melody is arranged here as a percussion feature with band. The pentatonic melody is passed around through all the sections of the band and there are optional vocal parts for an added unique effect. The flexible percussion...
A “How-To” guide that no elementary band director should be without, this book covers all aspects of the elementary band program from recruitment through the final concert. Beginning teachers, as well as those with years of experience,...
This comprehensive guide of intermediate and advanced repertoire highlights 100 of the best compositions and arrangements in print. Annotated in detail – metric and key design, performance and program notes, alternate choices of music –...
This outstanding “one-of-a-kind” text was designed to assist the conductor in achieving a personal interpretation of music.
DetailsPublisher: Meredith MusicPublication Date: 03/2000Credits: by Frank Battisti and Robert GarofaloMedium:...
Imaginative, versatile and fun! This outstanding arrangement provides young musicians with activities for stimulating creativity. Suitable for Jr. High School - Elementary.
DetailsPublisher: Meredith MusicPublication Date: 03/2000Credits: arranged...
This text provides similar content as Volume I with additional diagrams; glossary of terms; practice, listening and creative assignments; optional projects; and learning goals.
DetailsPublisher: Meredith MusicPublication Date: 03/2000Credits: by...
An exciting, balanced approach to student performance, music learning and personal change. Written in an informal, engaging style, the text is highlighted by anecdotes, quotations, challenges for self-reflection, and techniques used by the author...
The author shares his experiences of interpretation under the world's finest conductors during a career of 36 years with the San Francisco Symphony.ŠThis one-of-a-kind exploration includes excerpts from 14 major works for band and orchestra,...
As a reference text, Primary Handbook for Bassoon provides woodwind methods students with a thorough background in all aspects of both teaching and playing. As a teaching method, this book will take the student from the beginning to advanced high...
This exciting work, by one of today's most highly regarded music scholars, brings new light to the more than two dozen works by Ralph Vaughan Williams for military band, brass band and wind ensemble. Vaughan Williams' unique relationship with fellow...
Designed especially for secondary school band and orchestra students. Includes 11 rehearsal enrichment units covering the fundamentals of music theory, acoustics, tuning and intonation, music terms and symbols, sight-reading, conducting and music...
This text is sure to provide the most practical approach to orchestra and wind band score study ever published.ŠIt methodically simplifies preliminary score study and initial rehearsal preparation for all conductors of band, orchestra and chamber...
Written by one of today's most prolific author/educators, Boonshaft's new book is sure to top the charts following the international success of his first two best sellers. Filled with motivational anecdotes, quotations, and ideas on how to improve...
This book provides a broad curriculum or guide for directors emphasizing music as a fine art or cultural, aesthetic study. Through its presentation of lecture and resource materials including the teaching of timbre, structural elements, form, styles...
The Student Supplement to “Alternative Rehearsal Techniques” provides new concepts, graphic illustrations and instructional procedures designed to enhance and accelerate student performance skills. The most exciting aspect of this method...
This book presents an interpretive analysis of musical masterworks by 20 great maestros from Arturo Toscanini to Carlos Kleiber. Also included are interviews on the art of conducting with Pierre Boulez, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Kurt Masur, Herbert...
From a first-year teacher whose instruments were stolen before entering his building, to a teacher who received “hate mail” before her first day, to a teacher whose sensitivity, flexibility and insight gained her the respect of her...
With this superb text, Dr. Rapp gives the wind band community both a historical and musical insight into three of its most revered composers. His study of their band works' evolvement through traditional folk music will serve as a fascinating...
A practical source of authentic assessment strategies for music educators. Includes over 70 pages of tasks and charts for assessing the learning process as well as the product.
DetailsPublisher: Meredith MusicPublication Date: 03/2000Credits: by...
