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 incredible book by one of the world's foremost authorities on conducting contains no conducting patterns, and no advice on how to conduct any piece. Instead, it focuses on the skills, knowledge a...
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.
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 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...
Reading this book soon leads one to discover that band conductors are indeed fortunate to have a number of talented and accomplished leaders, who were not only willing, but enthusiastic about sharing...
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 a complete introduction to mallet playing for private lessons or classroom use. The play-along Online Audio also makes this the ideal self-instruction method.
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...
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...
Revised and updated! Lip Slurs for Horn provides a comprehensive collection of essential slurring skills for the first year student as well as exercises that challenge the most advanced professional....
Aufregendes Arrangement für ein oder mehrerere Xylophon-Solisten.
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...
This work is already becoming a 'standard' for recitals, juries and just for enjoyable playing. Trilogy is a beautiful work that is always well received
Eight original solos with piano accompaniment by the master of xylophone ragtime music. Includes information on style, performance practices, and a discography of Green's music.
57 experts from across the U. S. working as professors, studio teachers, professional singers, choral directors, composers, vocologists, and speech-language pathologists have all contributed to this a...
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.
30 Soli für Snare Drum
A collection of fifteen advanced musical duets for performance during recitals, examinations, 'chamber music' portions of band and orchestra concerts, solo and ensemble festivals or simply as a means...
Challenging, demanding, musical and fun! This collection of 19 snare drum solos by world-renowned virtuoso John Pratt, author of the legendary 14 Modern Contest Solos, will set a new standard for rudi...
Inspired by Charley Wilcoxon's Modern Rudimental Swing Solos, these 22 original snare drum solos were written for developing students as well as advanced drummers. Each solo combines rudiments with rh...
Anthony Cirone, a former percussionist of the San Francisco Symphony and Indiana University professor of music, provides a comprehensive performance analysis of snare drum parts for the major symphoni...
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 volu...
The Interpretive Wind Band Conductor will help conductors make the creative leap from simply reading notes to insightful musical interpretation. In addition to a long list of topics on conducting and...
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 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...
