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Baton Basics offers a unique approach to teaching conducting based upon the concept of conveying weight, resistance, and energy in order to communicate a better concept of musical sound to the musicians.

With the help of a team of educators with a wide diversity of experience, this book explores how music educators best empower students of all ages to be musical. The goal is to ensure that through

Becoming a Choral Music Teacher: A Field Experience Workbook, Second Edition is a choral methods textbook that prepares students in Music Education to become middle school and high school choral

Becoming a Music Teacher: Student to Practitioner focuses on making the connections between the college music classroom and public school music classroom transparent, visible, and relevant. Award-winning

• Provides a new pedagogical approach to human musicality and music education
• Reveals how our capacities to live musically and to cultivate a musical life are derived from the legacies of... view details

Learn the nuances of music notation, and create professional looking scores. This reference presents a comprehensive look at contemporary music notation. You will learn the meaning and stylistic practices

After more than fifty years as a music educator and conductor, the legendary Paula Crider has experienced it all - the lows and the highs, the messes and the magnificence of teaching music at all levels.

Brass Performance and Pedagogy approaches teaching brass students in a musical manner that is both comprehensive and practical. Great emphasis is placed on the importance of genuine musical development as

Developing and sustaining a successful band program is no easy task. But there is good news: understanding and implementing critical guiding principles will provide the motivation for consistent growth and

• Explains the different factors that go into a succesful and durable music program
• Offers a clear guide to creating a guitar program from scratch
• Focuses on under-discussed aspects... view details

In Chances and Choices, Stephanie Pitts surveys the aims and impact of formative musical experiences, evaluating the extent to which music education of various kinds provides a foundation for lifelong

This pioneering book provides music teachers, parents and early childhood educators a wealth of materials and a clear roadmap for applying Reggio-inspired principles and practices to preschool and early

Choral Artistry provides a practical and organic approach to teaching choral singing and sight-reading. The text is grounded in current research from the fields of choral pedagogy, music theory,

Written by noted scholar and conductor Dennis Shrock, this is a presentation of composers throughout history who represent the broad and diverse canon of choral music. It includes twenty women composers and

• Provides an understanding of the connectivity between performance, repertoire, music theory, sight-reading, improvisation, and musicological knowledge
• Uses a Performance to Notation model... view details

• Provides an easy, step-by-step guide for teachers with little or no experience teaching jazz
• Includes hundreds of musical examples and an appendix of chord symbols
• Offers tips for... view details

This book is concise, practical, and has modular content that can be taught in several flexible formats. The introduction of one hundred musical elements is supported by three hundred activities.Ten core

• Provides interdisciplinary insight into how musical care is understood and undertaken during different stages of the life course
• Offers a variety of perspectives from practitioners and... view details

Including contributions from leading figures in ethnomusicology, music education, theory/composition, professional performance, and administration, College Music Curricula for a New Century addresses

This resource, complete with workbook exercises and reflective questions, is about transforming a written document, The Common Core State Standards, into practical applications in the music

Compassionate Music Teaching provides a framework for music teaching in the 21st century by outlining qualities, skills, and approaches to meet the needs of a unique and increasingly diverse

This book is a culmination of the author's years of experience working with musicians from around the world. Topics include: musicianship as communication, memorization, the art of practice, the art of