Orchestra Technique Books

Exercises in seven major keys covering slurred, legato, staccato and detached bowings.

The fourth addition to Hal Leonard's Essential Elements for Strings series is perfect for your advanced level students. Each book includes: detailed practice routine for scales; three octave major and minor

This updated version contains scales, etudes, short chorales, and music technique exercises and is fully compatible with Essential Techniques 2000 for Strings. The CD contains individual instrument

Rhythm teaches a consistent counting system, develops excellent sight-reading skills, shows note relationships via graphic "rhythm boxes," and provides 18 pages of bowed rhythm studies.

Are you tired of juggling multiple technique books to teach scales, etudes, warm-ups, shifting, positions, vibrato, and tone production? Expressive Techniques for Orchestra offers a wealth of

Here's an outstanding resource for all orchestra directors, from the newest to the wisest veterans. Orchestral Bowing: Style and Function includes a textbook with extensive details on the bowings - how they

An extensive manual of three-octave scales and arpeggios. Should be introduced after students have studied Patterns in Position. Bowing and rhythmic variations provide creative review. Use of

An extensive manual of two-octave scales and arpeggios. Should be introduced after students have completed Finger Patterns and begun study in Patterns in Position. Bowing and rhythmic

This comprehensive technique and musicianship book will help develop, improve, and solidify the rhythmic accuracy of your students - individually and as an ensemble. The exercises, songs and etudes, along

One hundred short pieces designed to allow groups to sight-read at every rehearsal without having to sort loose music, hand it out, and collect it after rehearsal. The music can be adapted to a wide range

Sound Development emphasizes playing with a characteristic beautiful sound. The components of producing this sound are broken into four levels, consistent with the revolutionary Sound

Continuing the emphasis on playing with a characteristic, beautiful sound, this method also focuses on three octave scales that students will need for auditions and competitions. Advanced technical skills

This collection of 80 reproducible theory and technique worksheets can be used in the orchestra classroom or lesson studio. Twenty units provide brief writing and playing excerpts that can be used for

This book focuses on bowing, tone, and expression, features melody in all sections of the orchestra, and provides systemic approaches to a variety of issues. Tone and harmonization: harmonized scale

The perfect next step for the string orchestra! A great fit for full classroom instruction, small chamber groups, or private studio teaching, its progressive approach is a winning combination for string

This series of workbooks for beginning and intermediate players is designed to save rehearsal time. Available as separate books for each instrument, the take-home assignments stress the names of notes,