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Learn to use strings in your compositions and arrangements! From romantic chord pads to powerful grooves to gut-wrenching passionate melodies, strings do it all. This book presents time-tested techniques

A comprehensive string pedagogy resource covering everything from the origins and history of the string instrument family to advanced-level string techniques. Part I offers an orientation to string

Are you facing a change to block scheduling? If so, then pick up this important book immediately! After a discussion of the basics of block scheduling as it pertains to music programs, the book proceeds to

Including contributions from leading figures in ethnomusicology, music education, theory/composition, professional performance, and administration, College Music Curricula for a New Century addresses

This volume features sheet music, parts, sample letters, programs and student certificates for beginning band. Students can learn a composition in seven short weeks with the materials provided!

This manual provides an easy-to-follow, systematic, and progressive explanation of physical technique. The chapters can be used in any order with multiple combinations of excerpts depending on the goals of

Tim Lautzenheiser, one of the most popular and respected speakers on music education in the United States, released this compilation of some of his best published writings and lectures on key issues facing

Philosophical, theoretical, and practical tools are provided that have been desperately needed for band and orchestra teachers hoping to bring improvisation to their students. Topics covered include:

Rhythm is the most important thing in music.  Most methods for teaching rhythm to students present a concept, give it a couple of lines, and then move on to something new.  Most students learn

This second edition is significantly expanded and updated, including major new sections on advocacy, technology, and the challenges of teaching middle school students. There are new suggestions for teaching

Teaching Strings in Today’s Classroom: A Guide for Group Instruction assists music education students, in-service teachers, and performers to realize their goals of becoming effective string