Expressive Musicianship

This method presents interpretative suggestions to enhance ensemble musicianship for band directors and students in these areas: rhythm; melody and phrasing; dynamics and balance; embellishments; articulations and accents; style; tempo; releases; and intonation. Each area presents a variety of concepts for musical expressiveness, and there are more than 225 exercises and excerpts to use during warm-ups or when transferring an expressive concept to the band's current literature. The method includes intonation exercises that illustrate how to properly tune a chord; scale-based exercises written in the common keys of F, B-flat, and E-flat that can be used as part of a rehearsal warm-up to reinforce expressive concepts; band excerpts to illustrate how expressive concepts can be transferred to actual wind band literature; a key sheet to explore how players’ parts may be edited to increase the quality of musicianship; more than 40 ideas for increasing the ensemble's musical potential; a sample lesson plan and template to illustrate how to transfer knowledge to your current curriculum; and additional tips in the conductor's score for teaching each concept.