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Oxford University Press

Modern band is a term used to describe music education based on popular music and is increasingly incorporated in K–12 and preservice music teacher education programs. This handbook shines a light on the practices and perspectives of modern band teachers and gives practical advice on how to incorporate modern band into music classrooms. The chapters are grouped into five main themes: Arranging and Creating Covers; Songwriting; Teaching Modern Band Instruments; Social Justice and Cultural Responsiveness; and Music Technology. Each chapter offers a lesson plan consisting of pedagogical methods, activities, assignments, and lesson objectives. Lesson plans include accommodations, adaptations, and extensions to provide ideas for teachers who would like to make modifications for different ages and experience levels. The companion website features downloadable resources, additional assignments, and audio and video examples. An invaluable resource for all popular music educators!

The Modern Band Handbook

Paperback Book

Creative Music Class

Introduce or expand composition in the music class with explorative activities in listening, composing, and performing. This is a graded course ranging from the simplest rhythmic and pitch activities to more advanced work on triads, four-part writing, and 20th-century techniques. Each chapter contains extended lesson ideas that provide background, explorative ideas to inspire and inform the young composer, and directions for composing. Exploration engages the imagination and inspires critical thinking, speculation, and the creative process. Reproducible material is included.

Music Composition for Teens

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This books offers a practical, fully multimedia curriculum designed to teach basic musical concepts through the creative process of music composition. Music educator Barbara Freedman presents classroom-tested ways of teaching composition with technology as a tool with which students can create, edit, save, and reproduce music. All students can have meaningful, hands-on applied learning experiences that will impact not only their music experience and learning but also their understanding and comfort with 21st-century technology.

Teaching Music Through Composition

This is the second course in the series with more explorative activities in listening, composing, and performing. It is a graded course ranging from the simplest of rhythmic and pitch activities to more advanced work on triads, four-part writing, and 20th-century techniques. Each chapter contains extended lesson ideas that provide background, ideas to inspire and inform the young composer, and directions for composing. Exploration engages the imagination and inspires critical thinking, speculation, and the creative process. Reproducible material is included.

Music Composition for Teens : A Graded Second Course

Schott Music Distribution

Originally published in the 1940s, Paul Hindemith's remakable textbooks are still the outstanding works of their kind. In contrast to many musical textbooks written by academic musicians, these were produced by a man who could play every instrument of the orchestra, could compose a satisfying piece for almost every kind of ensemble, and who was one of the most stimulating teachers of his day. It is therefore not surprising that nearly forty years later these books should remain essential reading for the student and the professional musician. Introductory, The Medium, The Nature of the Building Stones, Harmony, Melody, Analyses  225 p.

The Craft of Musical Composition, Vol. 1

Book Book 1 Theoretical Part

Hal Leonard Corporation

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Composing for the Cinema

How do composers build sustainable careers, ensuring their work aligns with their financial goals and personal well-being? This practical and empowering guide for composers navigates the intersection of music, money, and business. Drawing on extensive industry experience and 28 interviews with successful composers across genres, the authors offer comprehensive guidance on pricing work, negotiating contracts, understanding copyright, hiring a creative team, and diversifying income. This book also demystifies financial strategies, legal essentials, and entrepreneurial thinking, equipping music creators with helpful tools to take control of their careers.

Composing a Living

Harnessing his wide-ranging experiences as a composer and educator, the author tackles one of the more elusive questions in music composition: how to get from technical ability to creative creation. Unlike standard composition textbooks that focus on writing melody, harmony, counterpoint, and rhythm, this resource guides readers to explore the rarely discussed problems of how to get ideas as well as how to follow up with the appropriate techniques to realize those ideas. Exercises throughout the book prepare readers to receive, recognize, and seize moments of inspiration or musical vision through a variety of methods to prompt imaginative musical thinking. Essays introduce and further explore topics such as hypnagogic dreams, improvisation, personal voice, composing based on lived experiences, and the influences of visual art, poetry, film, theater, and science. This playful and accessible approach serves as a guide for any composer, musician, or student interested in exploring their musical creativity from a nontechnical viewpoint.

Dreaming and Thinking in Music

Hardcover Book

Berklee Press

Music Composition for Film and Television

In this series of personal interviews with some of the most prominent composers of art music currently working on the American music scene, composer and educator Robert Raines leads intimate conversations through subjects ranging from the source of inspiration, to work habits, the realities of the business of music, and the impact of technology on music and life in the 21st century. The musicians who participated in these conversations are as different from one another as can be imagined, both in styles of music and approaches to life and art, resulting in a series of stories that offer a kaleidoscopic view of the many paths to creativity; yet a common thread that runs through the interviews is the passionate artistic drive that is shared by all. The inspirational stories of struggles and successes, told in the artists' own words and distinctively framed by their individual personalities - humorous, curmudgeonly, serious, serene, and playful by turns - is a delightful and thought-provoking journey full of personal insights, advice, and sharp observations on composing music in a changing, technology-driven world.
A loving homage to the artistic spirit, this book is a must-read for students of composition, professors and scholars of music, composers and aspiring composers, and anyone interested in the subjective process of writing music. This rich and entertaining collection provides a unique glimpse into the workings of the creative spirit in the digital age.  Hardcover, 368 p.

Composition in the Digital World

Sibelius has become the industry standard for composers, producers, copyists, authors, and educators interested in a music notation software that is not only fast and practical, but powerful and intuitive. In this beginnger program for Sibelius 5, you'll learn all about creating a score, entering notation with the mouse and computer keyboard, controlling the tempo and playback, and so much more. You'll even get tips on understanding page layout and engraving rules. If you are interested in getting up to speed quickly on Sibelius 5, this program is definitely for you!

Sibelius 5

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Informative and practical for all who are invested in making music composition an integral part of the curriculum this resource offers a well-grounded justification for teaching music composition as well as a compendium of useful instructional ideas and classroom activities. It begins with a rationale for teachers to begin composition activities in their classrooms with a thoughtful argument that demonstrates that all music teachers possess the skills and training needed to take children along the path toward composing satisfying musical compositions even if they themselves have never taken formal composition lessons. Some of the stickier issues that affect teaching music composition in schools are addressed, such as assessment, notation, and technology. Most importantly, it introduces a curricular model for teaching composition, a model that provides an array of composition activities to try in both the music classroom and the studio. These activities encourage musical and creative growth through music composition organized in logical units corresponding to well-known teaching modules. They offer jumping-off points for music teachers to exercise their own creative thinking and create music composition activities that are customized to their classes and needs.

Music Outside the Lines

Rowman & Littlefield Publishing

Music Production: A Manual for Producers, Composers, Arrangers, and Students, Third Edition serves as a comprehensive road map for navigating the continuous transformations in the music industry and music production technologies. From dissecting compositions to understanding studio technologies, from coaching vocalists and instrumentalists to arranging and orchestration, from musicianship to marketing, advertising, and promotion, Michael Zager takes us on a tour of the world of music production and the recording industry, helping students and professionals keep pace with this rapidly changing profession.
 
This third edition features:
<ul>
<li>New interviews with eminent industry professionals</li>
<li>Updated information on current trends in producing popular music and the impacts of the Music Modernization Act</li>
<li>Additional material on video game music</li>
<li>End-of-chapter assignments for course usage</li>
</ul>

Music Production

GIA Publications

One of the great mysteries of music education, how to bring music composition to the band and orchestra room, is addressed effectively in this practical and pioneering text. A landmark music education publication written by more than 35 recognized composers and educators.

Musicianship: Composing in Band and Orchestra

Music Education World

This clear and well organized text/workbook is suitable for students of arranging and composing, and for classically trained musicians wishing to further grasp the simple logic of pop/jazz harmony. Essential understandings include: Triad structures and inversions, how to select chords, chord symbols, simple but effective voicing formulas, the circle of fourths, extensions to the 9th and dominant 13th, and alterations.

Modern Harmony Method

Offers a philosophical foundation and rationale for teaching music composition, while discussing the teacher's role in composition instruction. Based on the Northwestern University Music Education Leadership Seminar directed by Bennett Reimer, professor emeritus at the Northwestern University School of Music.

Why and How to Teach Music Composition

This book presents a framework for creating effective film scores, helping to produce the best music for a given scene. It is for artists who would like to work in film, television, video games, or other media. Two case studies, featuring audio and video, illustrate how different creative choices can control the expressive effect of the scene. Practical worksheets are included which will help your team brainstorm, articulate, organize, and communicate your collective ideas and decisions. This book will help you develop music that is optimized for storytelling.

Creative Strategies in Film Scoring

Composing Our Future

Advance Music

Composing and Arranging for the Contemporary Big Band

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