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Align music instruction with state and national standards and remain focused on active music making using this resource as your guide. This second edition includes new and updated chapters by a team with experience teaching music at all educational levels: Pre-K, K–12, higher education and beyond. Part I defines the field of curriculum and assessment in music. Part II connects various approaches to music teaching – Orff, Kodaly, Dalcroze, Suzuki, and Gordon's Music Learning Theory – in the areas of movement, rhythm, singing, creative music making, expression, literacy, and listening. Part III guides the reader through various approaches to designing curricula, including Understanding by Design, Universal Design for Learning, and the National Standards. Part IV addresses curriculum and assessment in early childhood, secondary students, popular music, adult music learning, English language learners, learners with disabilities, preparation for adjudicated events, preservice education, and in-service education. Finally, Part V looks to the future, addressing the role of technology and the challenges to musicianship-focused curriculum and assessment. Polish your curriculum and reach your assessment goals with this helpful guide.

Musicianship-Focused Curriculum and Assessment

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Hal Leonard Corporation

One of America's best-loved musical personalities shares his passion, humor, and insights, helping to revitalize and reenergize teachers! This includes 366 short essays - one for each day of the year, including leap day - to help educators rediscover the energy and creativity that brought them to teaching in the first place, and inspire the artist within! Through the readings in this beautifully designed daily companion, a teacher will reawaken to the connection between one's personal art and the art of teaching, tapping the restorative power of creativity in nourishing the soul.

The Artist Within Me

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

From rehearsal procedures to reading music, new singers have a lot to learn when they join a choir. This practical and compact guide written by experienced choral conductors covers all the basics. Topics include an overview of common rehearsal equipment; how to read pitches, rhythms, and expressive markings; how to mark the score; proper body alignment and breathing technique; good vowel production; what to expect in rehearsals and concerts; how to audition for choirs and solos and more. Written in an easy-to-read style with bite-sized chapters, this guide is perfect for novice singers in many settings from middle and high school choirs to community and church ensembles. Keep this resource in your singers' choral folders to jumpstart their understanding of key concepts and the choral process.

A Quick-Start Guide to Choral Singing

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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

The music theory and history curriculum string programs have been waiting for! Two carefully crafted books present a comprehensive and pedagogically sound sequence specifically for orchestral string students. They address common questions and offer guidance in resolving problems unique to the orchestra classroom.

Music Theory for the Successful String Musician

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Hope Publishing Company

Part of the Creative Church Musician Series, this reproducible volume contains a wealth of ideas for using the choir to enhance congregational singing. Ideas for over 1000 hymns include choir stanzas, descants, choral interludes, codas, and much more. Indexes by hymn title and tune are included, making this an easy-to-use reference.

The Creative Use of Choirs in Worship

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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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Usingers Publishers

Foundations of Choral Conducting is designed to progressively disclose characteristics of the effective conductor, beginning with gesture, moving into score study and then rehearsal planning and execution.

Foundations of Choral Conducting

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

Inspired by the teachings of her mentor, the legendary Frauke Haasemann, Sabine Horstmann has written these creative exercises for choirs at any level of development.  Written in a straightforward, direct manner, this volume provides 94 sequential exercises that can serve as the central part of vocal training for your choir. Topics include: an overview of the "how" and "why" of vocal pedagogy; techniques for teaching posture, breathing, resonance, and relaxation; exercises for high range, low range, dynamics, and diction; suggestions for planning the choral warm-up; and canonic exercises for developing voice and ear.  The author is instructor of Group Vocal Technique and Voice at the Robert Schumann University in Dusseldorf.  She has extensive experience working with singers of all ages.

Evoking Sound: Choral Vocal Technique

Oxford University Press

Offering practical suggestions for helping both teachers and students think about the world around them, this book seeks to help implement social justice practices in music classes and ensembles at the elementary and middle school levels. Each chapter engages with important themes through music making and presents examples of dialogue with students, unit ideas, and lesson plans geared toward students between 6-14 years old. Tackling subjects often considered beyond the understanding of younger students, this book respects the voice and critical thinking of the student. Suggestions are given that help reflect and redirect dialogue, with questions that address bias, misinformation, and misunderstandings that too often stand in the way of coming to know and embracing diversity. The book also includes legally grounded arguments appropriate for school board presentations and ready-to-go classroom-tested lesson plans.

Music & Social Justice

Schiffer Publishing, LTD

This book can be used as an accompanying text for the collegiate marching band techniques course and to help build a successful marching band program at a high school. Topics include everything from developing a program handbook to student leadership and adult staffing, budgets, rehearsal techniques, sample forms, and basic information regarding the development process of a marching band show, as well as basic drill design techniques. It also addresses typical mistakes made by young teachers and offers suggestions on how to avoid/handle those mistakes. Finally, workbook-style activities at the end of each chapter help support and reinforce the material presented.

Marching Band Techniques

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

American String Teachers Association

Another invaluable resource from Elizabeth Green that is indispensable for the orchestra teacher!  Ms. Green discusses the essence of orchestral bowing, the fourteen basic bowing techniques, different styles and tricks of the trade.  It includes a section for teachers that illuminates several phases of orchestral instruction.  A must for the school and studio.

Orchestral Bowings and Routines

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Part of the Creative Church Musician Series, this reproducible volume contains tried and proven ideas for creating descants to enhance hymn singing, plus actual descants for 199 hymn tunes. Texts are omitted, making these useful from hymnal to hymnal.

The Creative Use of Descants in Worship

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

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