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In Pursuit of Great Conducting
H. Robert Reynolds with Doris Doyon
Renowned wind band conductor H. Robert Reynolds has pondered an important question throughout his illustrious career: What is the difference between a good conductor and a great conductor? This volume addresses the subject head-on, with wisdom from Reynolds’ own experience and reflections shared by twenty professional musicians of the highest caliber.
Expressive Musicianship
Concepts and Exercises to Develop a Band's Musical Potential
Shelley Jagow
This method presents interpretative suggestions to enhance ensemble musicianship for band directors and students in the following nine areas:
Rhythm, Melody and Phrasing, Dynamics and Balance, Embellishments, Articulations and Accents, Style, Tempo, Releases, and Intonation.
Rhythm, Melody and Phrasing, Dynamics and Balance, Embellishments, Articulations and Accents, Style, Tempo, Releases, and Intonation.
Small Band, Big Sound
Tackling the Challenges That Small Bands Face
Chris DeVona
Small bands can be great bands! Small Band, Big Sound is an indispensable guide for success in middle and high school band programs with students of all ability levels. It addresses the day-to-day challenges of finding and creating appropriate repertoire, adapting music for playability, establishing tone and blend with unconventional instrumentation, and rehearsing effectively with a small group.
Rehearsing the High School Band
Volume 2
Stephen Meyer
Fifteen master teachers from across the country share insight into their pedagogical process, creative rehearsal strategies, and resources for the administration of a high school band program. Each contributor has over twenty years of experience, teaching bands that range between 16 and 350 students. They share inspiring stories from their careers in music education, and offer wisdom on who, what, and why we rehearse that can help band directors and band programs at any stage of their development.
New and Featured Orchestra Resources
Habits of a Successful Young String Musician
A Comprehensive Beginner Method 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 features supplemental resources including accompaniment tracks, start-up clinic videos, and full performance videos for each exercise in the book. These cutting-edge online components are on MusicFirst (PracticeFirst) and MakeMusic Cloud (SmartMusic).
The Art of String Teaching
Second Edition
Michael Hopkins
The Art of String Teaching—a hybrid of written text and high-quality online videos—is a comprehensive string pedagogy resource covering everything from the origins and history of the string family to advanced-level string techniques.
Death and the Maiden
Full Score and Parts
Arranged by: Christopher Selby
This arrangement for string orchestra preserves all of Schubert’s original writing for the two violins, viola, and cello. The added bass often doubles the cello and, in lighter moments, performs pizzicato parts that are appropriate for the time period. Bowings and some suggested fingerings have also been added to help players and directors in rehearsal.
Finale to Symphony in D Minor: "La Casa del Diavolo"
Full Score and Parts
Arranged by: Christopher Selby
Students love to play exciting music that has endured the test of time and still feels relevant to the drama in their own lives. This Grade V arrangement for string orchestra works as a dramatic and memorable opener or closer for any concert. The added bowings and fingerings make the music more approachable for students, and the Classical style makes this arrangement perfect for evaluated or competitive performances.
The Audition Method for Clarinet
Volume 2
Ben Baron & Mark Nuccio
Another indispensable guide for aspiring and established clarinetists preparing for orchestral auditions, The Audition Method for Clarinet, Volume 2 offers even more core audition repertoire along with insight and advice from authors Mark Nuccio and Benjamin Baron.
New and Featured Resources for All Educators
Able Will Suffice
Universal Design for Learning in Music Education
Tina Holmes-Davis
Able Will Suffice is an insider’s view of disability in music education, written by educators who themselves navigate disabilities and bring a wealth of firsthand experience and insight to a topic frequently discussed from outside.
The book focuses on Universal Design for Learning (UDL) as a key strategy for creating accessible classrooms where all students, regardless of ability, can thrive. By integrating UDL into lesson planning from the outset, music educators can create supportive and accommodating classrooms that meet both common and uncommon needs.
The book focuses on Universal Design for Learning (UDL) as a key strategy for creating accessible classrooms where all students, regardless of ability, can thrive. By integrating UDL into lesson planning from the outset, music educators can create supportive and accommodating classrooms that meet both common and uncommon needs.
Making Musicians
A Teacher's Guide to Emotionally Intelligent Music Instruction
Allison Wilkinson
Allison Wilkinson has quickly become one of the most sought-after clinicians on the subjects of brain science and music psychology. Drawing from her own teaching and extensive research, she presents a groundbreaking new approach to music education in Making Musicians.
Based on the essential premise that all humans are musicians, this book presents educators with a clear and useful guide to Emotionally Intelligent Music Instruction (EIMI), a method that makes music learning a positive experience for all students.
Based on the essential premise that all humans are musicians, this book presents educators with a clear and useful guide to Emotionally Intelligent Music Instruction (EIMI), a method that makes music learning a positive experience for all students.
Musical SEL Reflection Questions and Conversation Starters
40 Flashcards
Scott N. Edgar
Effective musical Social Emotional Learning (SEL) requires authentic communication. The reflection questions and conversation starters on these color-coded cards will help teachers and students communicate in ways that embed SEL into music instruction while developing musical and life skills. The prompts are designed to deepen student connection, amplify students’ voices, and foster an authentic sense of belonging in the music classroom. This bite-sized resource captures more than a decade of Dr. Scott Edgar’s work and research on embedding SEL in music education.
Breaking Through
Disrupting Barriers to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Access within a Social Emotional Learning Approach to Music Education
Edward Varner
In Breaking Through, author Edward Varner helps music teachers understand the purpose of SEL, how it intersects with DEIA, and how to promote quality and equitable experiences for all students.
Varner also explores how music teachers can use SEL to teach important life skills, including cooperation, communication, positive interactions, responsibility, impulse control, and accepting consequences, among others.
Varner also explores how music teachers can use SEL to teach important life skills, including cooperation, communication, positive interactions, responsibility, impulse control, and accepting consequences, among others.
Upbeat! Daily Journal
Personal Reflections for Inspiration and Transformation
Matthew Arau & Paige Rauschuber
Your go-to resource for personal reflection, inspiration, and motivation—designed to supercharge your mornings and end your days with gratitude. This 120-day journal can be used on its own or as a companion to Dr. Matthew Arau’s Upbeat! Mindset, Mindfulness, and Leadership in Music Education and Beyond, offering 10 days of journaling for each of the 12 chapters in Upbeat!
Upbeat! Daily Planner
The Ultimate Organizer for Your GET to Do's
Matthew Arau & Paige Rauschuber
Elevate your organizational skills and set yourself up for success every day with the Upbeat! Daily Planner. Drawing on content and concepts from Dr. Matthew Arau’s best-selling book Upbeat! Mindset, Mindfulness, and Leadership in Music Education and Beyond, this companion 120-day planner includes more than 200 pages filled with inspirational quotes, mindful breathing techniques, questions for personal reflection, and space for your daily schedule and “get to do” list.
New and Featured Resources for Leadership
Leading as a Conductor
With Integrity of Heart and Skillful Hands
Tobin Stewart
Conducting is more than gesture, technique, and score study. Who we are as conductors is also critically important because character, integrity, and personality directly influence the way we connect with others.
Drawing from a deep well of research and years of experience, conductor and teacher Tobin Stewart identifies fourteen essential qualities of great leaders—vision, humility, and passion, to name a few—and applies these to leadership on and off the podium.
Drawing from a deep well of research and years of experience, conductor and teacher Tobin Stewart identifies fourteen essential qualities of great leaders—vision, humility, and passion, to name a few—and applies these to leadership on and off the podium.
Crafting Culture
Becoming a Music Teacher Leader
David W. Vandewalker & Tim Lautzenheiser
The collective wisdom shared by eleven outstanding band, choir, and orchestra instructors in Crafting Culture guides both aspiring and veteran music teachers through the challenges and joys of creating a culture of excellence in their music programs. Drawing from decades of on-the-ground experience, this passionate team of educators shares five key tenets for musical leadership.
Through My Music
Inspiring the Next Generation of Leaders
Myra Rhoden
Through my music, I can do anything!
This is the inspiring message Myra Rhoden and an impressive list of contributing authors are sending to the next generation of leaders with this powerful collection of stories, advice, and practical wisdom.
This is the inspiring message Myra Rhoden and an impressive list of contributing authors are sending to the next generation of leaders with this powerful collection of stories, advice, and practical wisdom.
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