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GIA Publications

Through my music, I can do anything! This is the inspiring message an impressive list of contributing authors is sending to the next generation of leaders with this powerful collection of stories, advice, and practical wisdom. The contributors, all accomplished music educators with decades of experience in the wind band field, answer important questions inspired by the Athena Creed: What is your guiding mantra? What advice would you give others to be the best musician/teacher they can be? How do you balance family and the profession? What was your first terrifying or memorable experience as a teacher? What was the defining moment that helped shape your career? Their responses to these and many other questions are equal parts insightful and inspirational, offering universal lessons in leadership, resilience, and the transformative power of music. A must-read for educators seeking to empower and mentor future leaders in music and beyond. Contributors: Zandra Bell-McRoy, Catharine Bushman, Paula Cride, Michele Fernandez, Linda Gammon, Edna Grace, Melissa Gustafson-Hinds, Mary Land, Rebecca Phillips, Erin Cole Steele, Lois Wiggins, Marguerite Wilder, and Paula Williams.

Through My Music

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A collection of practical tools that will modernize your program into a 21st-century booster organization, functioning as a successful small business that significantly supports the school music and arts programs. In clear, concise language, this book lays out an action plan that includes how to be articulate in sharing your vision; enlisting an army of volunteers; develop project plans; define a composite list of duties, tasks, and responsibilities; communicate; determine personal strengths and personality traits; create a business model and execute a business plan; make project notebooks; and provide support, encouragement, and praise. It goes beyond ideas and plans with online links to ready-to-use Word, Excel, and PDF files that are easy to customize and print. These reproducible tools will save you time and enable and empower you to build an amazing team of people dedicated to musical excellence!

Boosters to the Rescue

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A comprehensive beginning conducting text - complete with pictures, online videos, and supplemental conducting etudes - to facilitate the development of a clear and expressive conducting technique. This volume addresses three major areas for beginning conductors: gestural technique, score study, and leadership. For gestural technique, the text details a number of technical skills, including the appropriate use of the body, the roles of the right and left hand, basic conducting patterns and their derivatives, an application of Laban movement analysis, the importance of the conducting planes, and conducting with varied articulations (staccato, legato, and marcato), among others. In addressing score study, rather than advocating for one particular approach, this volume presents a number of possible score study methods for the student to explore. Finally, the text addresses how to be an effective and ethical leader from the podium. It also presents the transformational leadership model as a positive pathway for improving the conductor's effectiveness on and off the podium. Also included are music etudes to help students develop the technical skills of the conductor. A major contribution to conducting pedagogy and an extraordinary resource that distills the essence of effective conducting gesture.

Foundations of Conducting Technique

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Taking a multi-cultural approach to band literature and conducting, Volume 2 picks up where  the first top-selling book left off, featuring compelling discussions of the most important issues facing bands today and in-depth analyses of 100 of the most significant works for band ever composed in grades 2-6.  Contributors include: Larry Blocher, Eugene Corporon, Ray Cramer, Tim Lautzenheiser, Edward S. Lisk, Richard Miles and Jack Stamp.  This book is an essential resource for band directors at all levels and is a major contribution to the field!

Teaching Music Through Performance in Band, Vol. 2

Meredith Music Publications

This incredible book by one of the world's foremost authorities on conducting contains no conducting patterns, and no advice on how to conduct any piece.  Instead, it focuses on the skills, knowledge and experiences needed to become and function as a conductor-teacher.

On Becoming a Conductor

Neil A. Kjos Music Company

Performance Assessment in Band by Wendy Barden makes assessment easy with 48 pages of practical, proven techniques and customizable forms that will help teachers engage and motivate students, measure and transform learning, and maximize the effectiveness of every rehearsal. The result: skilled, energized musicians and better bands and orchestras!

Maximizing Student Performance: Performance Assessment in Band

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Rarely has a published resource contained so much invaluable information specifically for middle school band directors. This much-needed volume provides critical information on creating an effective wind band program in grades 6 through 8, from recruitment, rehearsal, and repertoire to performance and beyond. Chapters by leading middle school band directors focus on organization and administration, developing proper instrumentation, recruitment and retention, technique, literature selection, rehearsal, and a comprehensive listing of other resources.  Central to this volume is the identification and analysis of 100 core works organized by difficulty level from grade 1 to 3.5. A separate section is devoted entirely to marches that, combined with the other selections, make up core repertoire for middle school bands. As with the other books in this series, information is included about the composer, the work, historical perspectives, technical and stylistic considerations, analysis of musical elements and form and structure, suggested listening references, and cross-references to additional resources.

Teaching Music Through Performance in Middle School Band

If you teach young musicians, you should read this book! Lisk takes a practical and innovative approach to get ting musicians off to a good start by focusing on the student's innate learning process. Following a "natural learning sequence," Lisk gives step by step plans to focus the student mentally on such key elements as tone, technique and rhythm. Mastery of each concept begins with the mindset of the learner, and gradually develops into performance of the skill learned. Even seasoned teachers will find there is something valuable to be learned from this book.

The Creative Director

The tenth volume marks a true milestone in music education publishing. This landmark series provides band directors access to 1000 Teacher Resource Guides on repertoire, 60 invaluable chapters by leaders of the wind band profession on a wide range of critical topics, and an unparalleled library of audiophile recordings. Volume 10 continues the tradition with Teacher Resource Guides for 100 works, Grades 2 through 6. Every guide includes information about the composer, the work, historical perspectives, technical considerations, analysis of musical elements and form and structure, suggested listening references, and cross references to additional resources.

Teaching Music Through Performance in Band, Vol. 10

Here is a unique, innovative, and comprehensive textbook devoted exclusively to the teaching of rhythm. This book presents traditional as well as nontraditional 21st century outside-the-box concepts and strategies relative to the teaching of rhythm. There are five main parts to the book, which focus on: introducing students to the performance of rhythms; a look at the The Whole Note System; other counting systems and their effective uses in the classroom; compound meter; and irregular and mixed meters. All music teachers, whether band, orchestra, or choir directors, classroom music teachers, or private studio teachers, must deal with the problems inherent in getting students to first perform and then to understand rhythms. Rhythmic independence is one of the most important skills for students to master; this book will be an invaluable resource for all music educators.

Teaching Rhythm

The directors represented here are a sampling of individuals from different areas of the country, each of whom has had success teaching under unique and diverse circumstances. They represent the best of the best, with years of experience in public and parochial schools and having earned national recognition for their programs. They impart their wisdom, love, and passion for music as they share their experiences with readers.

Rehearsing the High School Band

Paperback Book Vol. 1

This contains Teaching Music Through Performance in Band, Volumes 1-12 - books only.

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This book will inspire young and veteran band directors to teach with more insight and embrace the power of positive leadership. A model of Five Key Practices is presented: knowledge, communication, positive energy, musicianship, and who you are - which work together to provide a framework for success. Other topics include goal setting, assessment, the teaching inventory database, and quality of life issues. A comprehensive book of information and inspiration.

Habits of a Significant Band Director

A treasure-trove of valuable information for both new and experienced middle school teachers! Among the topics discussed are: recruiting beginners, mouthpiece testing and instrumentation, effective rehearsal techniques, teaching strategies, classroom management, working with parents and colleagues, travelling with middle school students, and much more! A comprehensive resource that will be an essential reference throughout your teaching career.

Habits of a Successful Middle School Band Director

Focus On Music

This incredible book and video set will guide any wind or vocal performer through exercises designed to enhance performance skills through physical conditioning that focuses on breathing.  Stretches, flow studies, breathing patterns, and strength and flexibility exercises are all presented in a fun, clear format that would work equally well in a private lesson situation or group rehearsal setting.  Attention to proper breathing, the source of sound for all wind instruments and singing, is simply too important to overlook.  You'll find incorporating the techniques given in this book and video will not only focus your ensemble, but add an element of fun as well!

The Breathing Gym

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Essential repair techniques as well as suggestions for instrument maintenance are provided in a format that is easy to follow and intuitively organized.  You will be guided step by step through each repair with condensed and easy to understand instructions.  Over sixty photographs and illustrations are provided in a spiral bound flip book that will be easy and convenient to use.

Band Instrument "Quick Fix" Repair Solutions

This useful spiral-bound reference book includes extended fingering charts for all wind instruments; alternate fingerings, trill charts and key diagrams for all woodwind instruments; harmonic series and pitch tendencies for all brass instruments as well as instrument ranges for mallet percussion and rudiments for all battery percussion. Individual fingering charts for student use can be purchased separately.

The Complete Instrument Reference Guide for Band Directors

RBC Publications

Here's a concise and easy to understand reference for the instruments of the concert band. �It provides a detailed guide to intonation tendancies for each instrument as well as solutions for each problem. �Comprehensive and practical, it's ideal for use in rehearsals and practice. �

Tuning the Band

Written as a guide for discussion and reflection among music educators, this book thoughtfully looks at why female-identifying band directors are still a minority in the field and what can be done about it. Centered on the experiences and wisdom of women in the field, the book is divided into three parts. Part I features essays by five professionals who explore best practices and contemporary issues. Part II focuses on lived experiences presented through interviews with 19 women representing many identities and intersecting identities, including women of various ages, races, ethnicities, orientations, years of experience, and levels of instruction. After examining traditions, assessing current practices, and reflecting on lived experiences, Part III is a call to action, providing ideas and resources for shaping and supporting a future that is inclusive and sustainable not only for women but for everyone in the field. As the profession evolves, this book encourages readers with any level of experience to explore healthier practices and deepen their understanding through authenticity, community, and advocacy.

Women in Wind Band

Paperback Book

A wealth of practical information you'll turn to again and again. Among the many topics included are: classroom organization and management, working with parents and colleagues, warm-ups, rehearsal strategies, selecting literature and student leadership. Also included are outlines, reproducible forms and pitch tendency charts. Easy to use, it's a must for new and experienced band directors.

Habits of a Successful Band Director

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