GIA Publications - New Music Ed Releases for 2026

GIA has always aspired to publish the highest quality music education resources that enrich lives, bring joy to students, and inspire teachers. We do this by working with authors and educators who represent the very best the profession has to offer—preschool through college and beyond.

We're very proud to feature this new list of resources for 2026. Explore the new releases below, or browse our entire 2026 Music Education Catalog on your computer or device.

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Resources for All Teachers

The Music Educator's Rescue Kit

What They Didn't Teach You in School

Daniel Gregerman

Today’s music educators must deal with a myriad of day-to-day issues not covered in the college arts education curricula. This comprehensive text offers practical and realistic recommendations on a variety of real-world topics, including copyright law, budgeting challenges, classroom discipline, grading, fundraising, and so much more.

A Music Education Career Built to Last

Design, Refine, and Fortify Your Blueprint

Mary Land & Tim Lautzenheiser

In this book, authors Mary Land and Tim Lautzenheiser draw from decades of experience in classrooms, rehearsals, and clinics to answer this question, offering a clear blueprint for establishing and maintaining a thriving career as a music educator.

Needs Before Notes

Supporting Student Well-Being through Music Education

Scott N. Edgar

Educators have long known that a student’s needs must be met before meaningful learning can occur. In this practical guide, Scott Edgar empowers music teachers to prioritize student well-being through embedded life-skill development in the music classroom.

Teaching Music Each Day Inspired

Advice, Ideas, Encouragement, and Motivation for Music Teachers

Peter Boonshaft

Looking for a daily spark to inspire your teaching, or a practical tip to try in rehearsal tomorrow? Need a clever fix for balance or intonation issues, or a simple reminder of why you fell in love with teaching music? Peter Loel Boonshaft’s Teaching Music Each Day Inspired offers all that and more.

Resources for General Music

The Music Teacher's Guide to General Music

Angela Ammerman, Rob Lyda & Annamarie Bollino

Whether you are a music education major, a first-year teacher, or an experienced educator, you will love the practical and intuitive nature of this text. It provides a comprehensive approach to teaching general music in any classroom and with any combination of approaches!

Making Music in the Elementary School

A Guide to Who, How, What, and Why We Teach

Mari Schay

Making Music in the Elementary School equips music educators with the skills, knowledge, and confidence to teach general music in grades PreK–6.

Designed to align with a semester-long methods course for pre-service teachers—and a rich source of inspiration for those already in the classroom—this text offers practical strategies, real-life scenarios, and sample repertoire for crafting engaging, student-centered lessons.

Shadows in the Moonlight

Songs of the Middle East

Joan Litman, Wassim Ibrahim, & Karen Howard

Shadows in the Moonlight: Songs of the Middle East invites readers into a vibrant musical world shaped by centuries of cultural exchange along ancient caravan routes. This collection of 43 traditional songs captures the beauty and diversity of Middle Eastern music, offering students and educators an authentic, accessible resource that celebrates connection through sound.

El Reloj de la Calavera

The Skeleton Clock

Gabriela Montoya-Stier

In this colorful adaptation of El Reloj de la Calavera (The Skeleton Clock), all the adventure takes place on Domingo Grande, the Sunday before Día de los Muertos. Abuelito (grandpa) is taking care of his twin granddaughters, while abuelita (grandma) buys supplies for the ofrenda (offering). Along the way, they run into a playful troupe of marionette skeletons, las calaveras, who have emerged from the graveyard to celebrate the holiday!

Learning to Improvise

Readiness and Harmonic Audiation

Cynthia Taggart & David Potter

Designed for elementary general music as well as middle and high school choir, Learning to Improvise provides hundreds of detailed teaching plans, dozens of songs, and numerous practical strategies and extensions to develop improvisation readiness and skills. Authors Cynthia Taggart and David Potter also provide a pathway for teachers to develop their own improvisational skills through the teaching plans and provided audio recordings.

Portraits of Social Emotional Learning in General Music

Scott N. Edgar, Paige Rauschuber

Available Spring 2026 This book highlights the inspiring and innovative work of general music teachers who are intentionally implementing social emotional learning (SEL) in their classrooms.

Experienced teachers share their real-world challenges and triumphs with SEL in the general music classroom, including tips, learning experiences, lesson plans, and suggestions for embedding SEL meaningfully and musically.

The Riddle Song

John M. Feierabend

In this charming reimagination of a centuries-old classic, artist Lexi Baboukis evokes an idyllic countryside where a squirrel, goose, chicken, and two goats gather to hear a woman play lap dulcimer beneath the open sky. By the end, each animal reveals the delightfully clever answer to one of the song’s four puzzling riddles.

Make It Music

Dalcroze Strategies for Every Classroom

Anthony Molinaro & Stephen Neely

Transform your music classroom into a creative, vibrant, and playful space with Make It Music, an innovative resource rooted in the movement-based tradition of Dalcroze Eurhythmics.

This package includes more than 200 cards with prompts to inspire thousands of short, unique movement activities that can be seamlessly incorporated into any lesson plan. The cards are divided into four decks.

Resources for Band

Habits of a Successful Intermediate Band Musician

The Second Book in the Habits Band Series

Scott Rush, Kevin Boyle & Marguerite Wilder

Available Spring 2026 Habits of a Successful Intermediate Band Musician is a field-tested, vital, and—most important—musical collection of 184 sequenced exercises for the intermediate band student.

Habits of a Successful Band Director
(20th Anniversary Edition)

Pitfalls and Solutions

Scott Rush

Celebrating two decades of impact, Habits of a Successful Band Director remains an essential resource for music educators at all stages of their career. In this expanded and updated edition, Scott Rush offers a comprehensive guide designed to inspire, inform, and elevate the art of teaching music.

Q&A for Teaching Band to Students with Differences and Disabilities

Alice Hammel, Nerissa Rebagay, & Tim Lautzenheiser

Every student deserves the chance to make music. In Q&A for Teaching Band to Students with Differences and Disabilities, leading practitioners Alice Hammel, Nerissa Rebagay, and Tim Lautzenheiser respond to real questions submitted by real teachers about how to include all students

Beyond the Baton

Programming, Interpretation, Performance, Leadership, and Musical Taste for Wind Band/Ensemble Conductors

Frank Battisti

In many ways, this book is an expansion of Guide to Score Study for the Wind Band Conductor, co-authored by Frank Battisti and Robert Garofalo in 1990. In this companion volume, Battisti emphasizes the importance of a conductor’s imagination, personality, and dedication as it relates to programming, interpretation, performance, and musical leadership.

Winds of the North

A Survey of the Canadian Wind Band Tradition and Repertoire

Darrin Oehlerking

Winds of the North: A Survey of the Canadian Wind Band Tradition and Repertoire highlights the importance of Canadian contributions to wind band and music education practices. This substantial volume explores the unique history of wind band in Canada, balanced with contemporary perspectives and representative repertoire.

The Hill We Climb

LGBTQ+, Band, and Belonging

Erik Leung & Rob Taylor

The Hill We Climb deepens the conversation about equity and inclusion started by The Horizon Leans Forward . . . This companion volume centers the voices and lived experiences of LGBTQ+ musicians, artists, and educators in the wind band community, and explores how music can foster belonging and LGBTQ+ visibility across classrooms, ensembles, and institutions.

Rehearsing the Band

Volume 4

Daniel Harbaugh

This edition of Rehearsing the Band presents an exclusive look into the musical minds of eleven of today’s top wind band conductors. Each contributor represents the pinnacle of artistry in the profession. Drawing from their diverse experiences and perspectives, they freely share their personal philosophies and practical techniques—insights that will undoubtedly enhance your own preparation and teaching methods.

Habits of a Successful Middle Level Musician

Expanded Conductor's Edition

Scott Rush, Jeff Scott, Emily Wilkinson, Rich Moon, & Kevin Boyle

Now includes Teacher Tips and full scores for all exercises! Perfect for use by an entire band or solo player for years two, three, and beyond, this series contains carefully sequenced warm-ups, chorales, sight-reading etudes, rhythm vocabulary exercises, and much more. In one place, this series presents everything an aspiring player needs to build fundamental musicianship skills and then be able to transfer those skills directly into the performance of great literature.

African American Composers in the Wind Band Tradition

Dakeyan Graham

African American Composers in the Wind Band Tradition highlights the rich but often overlooked contributions of African American composers to the wind band literature. With this volume, author Dakeyan Graham fills a critical gap by spotlighting the artistry of composers who have been historically underrepresented in concert programs, curricula, and scholarly study.

Jump Right In:
The Instrumental Series

Third Edition

Available Spring 2026 The third edition of Jump Right In: The Instrumental Series is easier to use and as musical as ever! The series is research-based, field-tested, and appropriate for elementary, middle, and high school instrumental music, and general music classes at these levels. Also appropriate for college teachers who teach instrumental methods classes, vocal-general methods, and aural skills classes.

Teaching Music through Performance in Jazz

Volume 3

Ronald Carter & Roxanne Stevenson

Teaching Music through Performance in Jazz, Volume 3 is both a culmination of jazz educator Ronald Carter’s legacy and an essential resource for the jazz education profession. This volume continues the storied tradition of the series, offering insights from top jazz educators and invaluable analysis of the best repertoire published for jazz ensembles at all levels.

Lip Slurs for Horn
(Second Edition)

A Progressive Method of Flexibility Exercises

Howard Hilliard

This book provides a comprehensive collection of essential slurring skills for the first-year student as well as exercises that challenge the most advanced professional. A balance between variety and accessibility is used to challenge the ear and combat the monotony of typical lip slur exercises while maintaining a logical and musical shape to the phrase.

Resources for Orchestra

Habits of a Successful Young String Musician
Book 1

A Comprehensive Beginner Method Book for Year One and Beyond

Sarah Ball, Margaret Selby, Christopher Selby & Scott Rush

Habits of a Successful Young String Musician is a field-tested and musical collection of 220 sequenced exercises for the beginning string student.

The companion website (www.habitsstrings.com) features supplemental resources including accompaniment tracks, start-up clinic videos, and full performance videos for each exercise in the book.

Habits of a Successful Young String Musician
Book 2

A Comprehensive Beginner Method Book for Year Two and Beyond

Sarah Ball, Margaret Selby, Christopher Selby & Scott Rush

Habits of a Successful Young String Musician is a field-tested and musical collection of 220 sequenced exercises for the beginning string student.

Book 2 includes challenging new keys, rhythms, time signatures, and minor modes that will better prepare students for more advanced concert music.

The Audition Method for Flute

Volume 1: Early 20th Century

Joshua Smith

The Audition Method for Flute, Volume 1 is for aspiring and established flutists looking to win orchestral auditions. This book can be used throughout the entire process of preparing for an audition, including at the audition itself.

The Audition Method for Flute

Volume 2: Mid 20th Century

Joshua Smith

Another indispensable guide for aspiring and established flutists preparing for orchestral auditions, The Audition Method for Flute, Volume 2 offers even more core audition repertoire from the mid 20th century along with insight and advice from Joshua Smith, principal flute of The Cleveland Orchestra.

Resources for Choir / Vocal

The AndroVox Method

A Practical Guide to Mapping Resonance in Contemporary Voice

G. Thomas Allen

Available Spring 2026 This book is a concise vocal methods guide that prioritizes resonance efficiency as the foundation for clarity, agility, and sustainability. Today’s artists are genre-fluid, vocally diverse, and emotionally expansive, yet many still train within outdated, one-size-fits-all models.

Sharing the Song

Becoming a Song Leader

Alice Parker & Alison Seaton

Available Spring 2026 Sharing the Song posthumously concludes Alice Parker’s trilogy devoted to her philosophy of music, following The Anatomy of Melody and The Answering Voice. In this final volume, Parker distills a lifetime of wisdom into four concise chapters that guide readers through the art of communal singing.

The Conductor's Triangle

Embodied Conducting and Connection: Wisdoms Derived from a Forty-Year Case Study

James Jordan

Available Spring 2026 In The Conductor’s Triangle, Grammy-nominated conductor James Jordan—seventh conductor of the renowned Westminster Choir—illuminates the core of expressive conducting. At the heart of every great performance, Jordan reveals, lies a dynamic triangle connecting gesture, communication, and artistry.

Choral Concepts
(Second Edition)

Donald Neuen & Rebecca Lord

This comprehensive guide offers clear, practical, and empowering teachings in choral methods and conducting on such important topics as breath support, ensemble sound, vowels, warm-ups, rhythm, phrasing, diction, score preparation and analysis, rehearsal techniques, the role of the conductor, and more.

Something Beautiful Remains (Digital Album)

Choral Chamber Music of Anthony Bernarducci

Clemson University Cantorei

Available Spring 2026 Anthony Bernarducci composed the title track of this EP in honor of his friend Pat Moore, who lost her fight to cancer in 2022. Her kindness, generosity, and joy will be missed by many. The oboe is meant to portray a bird and, ultimately, a loved one’s spirit. The cello, piano, and voices take on the sound of a wave, seashell, sunset, and lament of grief, offering a poignant reminder that the spirit of someone we love remains a part of us forever.

Choral Repertoire by Women Composers

Hilary Apfelstadt & Alan Troy Davis

Choral Repertoire by Women Composers highlights the lives and music of more than 200 women choral composers spanning different time periods and geographic locations. Their choral works—expressive, compelling, and innovative—represent a diversity of styles and are suitable for choirs of varied ages and experience. Nearly 2,000 unique works are listed in this edition.

Resources for Percussion

Scales for Keyboard Percussion

A Unique Approach to Learning Scales

Randy Eyles

This unique method makes learning scales easy and develops musical creativity at the same time. While other instrumentalists learn fingerings, percussionists learn scale shapes to understand scale construction and to visualize their physical shape.

Ghanaian Xylophone Music for Marimba

Aaron Bebe Sukura & Patrick Roulet

This collection is the result of a collaboration between Ghanaian xylophone master Aaron Bebe Sukura and American percussionist Patrick Roulet. It includes traditional songs performed on the gyil (pronounced “jeel”), a single-row xylophone of the Lobi and Dagara people of Ghana and Burkina Faso.

Resources for Leadership

Upbeat! Leadership Workbook

The Definitive Guide to Developing Leaders from the Inside Out

Matthew Arau

Unlock your leadership potential with the Upbeat! Leadership Workbook, a transformational guide designed to equip anyone with the skills and confidence to lead others, beginning with the most important first step: learning to lead yourself.

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