The
Rough Guide to Jazz - 3rd Edition
The third edition of the Rough Guide to Jazz has over
2,100 critical biographies, ranging from greats like
Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis to rising stars like
Stacey Kent and Jamie Cullum. As well as outlining
every artist's career, each entry concludes with recommendations
of the best of their recordings on CD. The guide includes
many illustrations by top jazz photographers.
The
Rough Guide to Opera
As a thrillingly potent mix of music and drama, opera is
gaining wider appeal. This Rough Guide provides insider information
on history's most renowned operas.Biographical sketches of
over 150 composers. Updated and expanded CD reviews of hundreds
of operas, both famous and obscure. An expanded who's who of the
finest singers on record, from Caruso and Ponselle, through divas
such as Callas and Joan Sutherland, to present-day stars like
Jose Cura and Angela Gheorghiu.
The Enjoyment of Music 10th Edition
Used by more than 3.5 million students, The Enjoyment of Music
has been the most trusted introduction to music for over five decades.
The Tenth Edition reaffirms this status in a thoughtful revision offering
a more diverse repertory and a stronger emphasis on the cultural
significance of musical styles and periods.
Responding directly to the needs of todays students, Professor Forney
has completely rewritten the chapters on musical elements for
accessibility and integrated the textbook material with powerful new multimedia
learning tools.
These resourcesthe Student Resource DVD, StudySpace, and the Online Listening
Lab
reinforce important concepts from the text through interactive, hands-on
learning.
Please note that only a Chronological Edition is available.
Norton Scores Vol's 1 & 2, and 2 sets of 4 CD's are also available.
Best Music for Young Band - Revised
Edition
By Thomas L. Dvorak
This book distills, in some 50 pages, the best
young band works,
Grade 2 to 3, from the past 50 years, and presents them in the
form of a concise, practical guide. Just over 100 works were
selected. Each entry provides the grade, duration, and publisher,
as well as a listing of the highest written notes in each brass part,
percussion requirements, and any unusual instrumentation required.
Of particular value are the authors personal pointers regarding
specific challenges unique to each piece.
Conducting from the Inside Out DVD
By Allan McMurray with Frank Ticheli
This DVD reveals the collaborative experience between conductor,
Allan McMurray and composer Frank Ticheli in an effort to provide a
sample of how the creative partnership occurs. It demonstrates how
knowledge of the score fuels all aspects of a conductors responsibilities.
Of particular interest is interpretation. It is the responsibility of the
conductor to digest all of the information provided by the composer and
form a point of view. This is the personal collaboration between the
composer and the conductor.
Jazz Educator's Handbook
by Jeff Jarvis & Doug Beach - Book & 2 CDs
This book is designed to assist band directors
to become more effective jazz educators. Whether
youre
experienced or just getting started, youll find suggestions that
will yield noticeable and sometimes immediate improvements
in your program. This book draws from our fifty-plus years of
combined experience as educators, clinicians, performers,
composers and publishers.
Wind Band Masterworks of Holst,
Vaughan Williams & Grainger
By Willis M. Rapp
A one-of-a-kind interpretive source for the student, performer
and conductor. The authors scholarly research provides a
comprehensive analysis, musical examples, discography,
bibliography and more.
Jazz Pedagogy
Jazz Educator's Handbook and Resource Guide
(includes DVD)
by J. Richard Dunscomb and Dr. Willie L. Hill Jr.
Written
by internationally recognised jazz educators
experienced in teaching to elementary, middle, high school
and college students, as well as to teachers and administrators
Provides a foundation and structure to implement a jazz program
Solutions to challenges such as the rhythm section,
sax & brass sections, scheduling,
goals, budget,
vocal jazz, technology, selecting music, festivals and tours
Techniques for rehearsing and improvisation lessons
How to teach swing,
Latin and improvisation
Innovative resource guide Includes a comprehensive
jazz history
Innovative DVD (included) provides more than 3 hours of
demonstrations of
techniques
with middle school, high school and college sections.
The Creative Band & Orchestra
by Julie Lyonn Lieberman
The
first book of its kind in the world, The Creative Band and
Orchestra provides conductors, directors, and educators with
over one hundred ideas, techniques, exercises, and musical
examples. Through this book you will be able to:
Enliven ensemble interaction
Introduce 5 approaches to
improvisation
Heighten listening skills
Stimulate new brainstyles
Develop innovative scores Incorporate
rotational seating
Implement motivational ideas
Present playing healthy techniques
Tools for Powerful Student Evaluation
by Susan R. Farrell
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.
Complete Woodwind Instructor
A Guidebook for the Music Educator
by Deborah and Robert Sheldon
This
valuable guide contains practical ideas for
teaching including sound and sequential methods for
beginners, which include assembly, creating a sound,
posture and hand positions and tone production. It
also contains appropriate care and maintenance
suggestions,
common repair solutions and
uncomplicated fingering and drill charts.
A Comprehensive Practice Routine for the Aspiring Brass
Player
by Don E. Johnson
Modern Harmonic Technique Volumes 1 & 2
Gordon Delamont
Volume 1: A comprehensive survey of basic harmonic and melodic materials
for the present-day composer and arranger.
Volume 2: A full examination of the contemporary techniques of tonal
harmony
for the arranger and composer.
Modern Contrapuntal Technique
Gordon Delamont
An examination of non-chordal counterpoint for the contemporary composer
and arranger, including pan-diatonicism, quartal harmony, and
poly-tonal techniques.
Handy Manual Fingering Charts for Instrumentalists
Clarence V. Hendrickson
contains:
Fingering charts for all woodwind and brass instruments
Position charts
for string instruments
Drum rudiments
Transposition charts
Instrumental ranges
Essential Dictionary of Music
A practical and useful pocket music dictionary for students
and professionals.
Contains:
Definitions
Composers,
Theory
Instrument and vocal ranges.
The Jazz Ensemble Director's Manual
Revised edition - CD enclosed
Richard Lawn
A handbook of practical methods and materials for the Educator.
The Complete Arranger
Sammy Nestico - Book & CD
The one reference that no serious student of arranging should be without.
A great reference source featuring ranges for all instruments, articulation
tables, glossary of musical terms and much more. Examines in detail the
complex band idiom. The digitally mastered CD presents sterling performances
by top studio musicians.