This is not your grandfather's lip slur book! It is an innovative method incorporating an entirely new vocabulary of harmonically rich and rhythmically varied exercises; challenging, fun and interesti...
This text covers every possible style appropriate to an intermediate book for woodwinds. It includes music from the Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Twentieth Century eras while representing more tha...
Arranged for xylophone solo(s) and band, this exciting feature spotlights one or more keyboard percussionists in front of the band.
This text provides an eclectic collection of unaccompanied solo works for keyboard percussion. The works contained were originally composed for instruments alone and are uniquely suitable for recitals...
This text covers every possible style appropriate to an intermediate book for brass. It includes music from the 14th century up to the beginning of the 20th century from dozens of countries, including...
A unique text providing information on the background, selection and fundamental performance techniques for 17 accessory instruments including wood block, claves, antique cymbals. temple blocks, cabas...
A collection of 8 percussion ensembles grades 2-6 written specifically for use in the junior/senior high school and the college methods class, a variety of styles, levels of difficulty and idioms. Inc...
As a musical trailblazer, virtuoso marimbist Keiko Abe can be compared with other musical luminaries like cellist Pablo Casals, Spanish classical guitarist Narciso Epes, and pianist Glenn Gould. Thank...
This method provides the fundamental techniques, musical concepts and performance practices necessary to excel as a vibraphonist. Featuring 2 and 4 mallets in accessible to advanced exercises, studies...
A collection of 20 original, short works emphasizing idiomatic-four-mallet technique. A wonderful assortment of musically rewarding works.
Three contrasting and challenging movements that contain many contemporary compositional devices. This work, which requires advanced technical and musical proficiency, is ideal for university recital...
This outstanding contest solo makes extensive use of dynamics applied to rudimental rhythmic figures. Appearing on state solo lists, Essay has become a standard work for snare drum.
100 outstanding middle and high school, collegiate and professional band and orchestra conductors passionately and candidly share their most powerful rehearsal techniques and cutting-edge program idea...
An easy-to-follow, detailed curriculum that uses band performance as a means for teaching comprehensive musicianship. Blueprint runs a full scale of music history, theory and special projects, while s...
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.
Teaching Music with Passion is a one-of-a-kind, collective masterpiece of thoughts, ideas and suggestions about the noble profession of music education. Both inspirational and instructional, it will s...
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...
A stimulating collection of unique concepts on teaching and conducting by 57 of today's most outstanding music educators. Contains to-the-point, thought-provoking ideas proven successful by master tea...
With assistance from the Virginia Commonwealth University Wind Ensemble, Ed Lisk demonstrates all of the rehearsal techniques described in his monumental text Alternative Rehearsal Techniques. Each co...
A stimulating collection of unique concepts on becoming a successful performer by 57 of today's most outstanding brass professionals. Contains to-the-point, thought-provoking ideas proven successful b...
Like his first critically acclaimed international bestseller Teaching Music with Passion, this new book from Peter Boonshaft is even more poignant and powerful. Called one of the most exciting and exh...
This book is a unique resource for both novice and experienced band directors, gathering effective teaching tools from the best in the field. Includes more than 40 chapters on: curriculum, then and no...
This essential book for all performers, teachers and conductors of wind instruments clears away the cobwebs of superstitions and the fixed ideas of what can and can't be done. Written by one of the gr...
This valuable collection of deeply insightful strategies is like finding expert trade secrets all placed together in one easy, quick-to-read source. Contributors to the book were even eager to get a l...
This book provides one huge room where everyone can gather to ask questions on the art of rehearsing and listen to answers from people who know. In his foreword, Frederick Fennell says, If you are a c...
This valuable collection of quick-to-read yet deeply insightful strategies is like finding expert trade secrets all placed in one convenient source. Contributors to the book were even eager to get a l...
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....
This handy guide features: more than 4, 000 foreign musical terms; terms in Italian, French and German; more than 160 musical examples; and comprehensive sections for percussion and strings.
A truly outstanding collection of timeless essays on basic repertory for band by Frank L. Battisti, John Bourgeois, Frank Erickson, Robert Garofalo, Donald Hunsberger, Francis McBeth, Kenneth L. Neidi...
Highlights the major components for survival and success during the formative years in a college, university or conservatory and provides examples and strategies to greatly assist the student musician...
The individual selection of quality literature - one of the most important responsibilities facing today's band director - is greatly simplified using this one-of-a kind publication. It is the ultimat...
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 ane...
A Composer's Insight, Volume 4 is the fourth in a five-volume series on major contemporary composers and their works for wind band. Included in this initial volume are rare, behind-the-notes perspecti...
In this delightful collection of anecdotes, Michael Colgrass invites the reader into his private encounters with Igor Stravinsky, Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Dizzy Gillespie, and a host of other...
With the rising numbers of homeschoolers in the United States and numerous research studies that prove the powerful impact of music instruction on a child's social and intellectual development, this b...
Teaching with Passion, Purpose and Promise is a collection of practical solutions, inspirational stories, thought provoking quotations and motivational ideas for teachers of all levels and disciplines...
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 Boule...
This valuable edition provides comprehensive information on selected wind band works that were inspired by and incorporate hymns, chorales and spirituals. It includes music from all performance levels...
This inspiring story provides an extraordinary model for band programs of today and tomorrow explaining how the most creative high school band program in America's history evolved and functioned daily...
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...
From advising to clinical experiences to personal relationships to coursework, life as an eduation student is both exhilarating and consuming. This book highlights the major components for survival an...
This book is a must-read for anyone interested in acquiring a back-stage tour of symphony life, not included in the price of a box-office ticket! GAIN a behind-the-scenes look at the orchestra as a fa...
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 insigh...
This text is sure to provide the most practical approach to orchestra and wind band score study ever published. It methodically simplifies preliminary score study and initial rehearsal preparation for...
The music performance library is the heart of any musical ensemble, supplying music to performers and information to an entire organization. This text contains valuable information on this important t...
Dr. Milton Allen takes you on a careening voyage that charts a path from being a good musician/educator to becoming an artist musician/educator. Based on personal experiences ranging from the hilariou...
This new publication is an extension of The Winds of Change, that traced the development of the American wind band/ensemble in the twentieth century. This book covers all the important conferences, co...
This text is the fifth in a five-volume series on major contemporary composers and their works for wind band. Included in this volume are rare, 'behind-the-notes' perspectives acquired from personal i...
This is an American dream story rarely encountered! Patrick Conway's lifespan and the golden era of the professional band in America literally coincided. This book tells how Conway became one of the l...
The music performance library is the heart of a musical ensemble, supplying music to performers and information to an entire organization. This essential resource provides step-by-step directions on h...