Books for Musicians, Teachers and Conductors

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

What could a musical style look like to a visual learner? Can visual images improve conceptual understanding of intonation, balance, and blend? This text provides tools and techniques for visualizing

With his hallmark wit and humor, choral conductor and poet Robert Bode brings readers on a journey through twelve great choral works, offering anecdotes, valuable insights, and interpretive advice for each.

This primer for all musicians provides a reliable base for a lifetime of playing and singing. The principles in these pages are the elemental foundation of music education and will protect a musician from

The environment, resources, and expectations of teaching music in charter schools can often differ from traditional public schools, but the teacher's mission remains the same: to provide quality music

Critical Issues in Music Education: Contemporary Theory and Practice examines the rich and challenging complexities of music teaching and learning from a variety of perspectives. With individual expertise

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

Very few music teachers are prepared to address the needs of the rapidly growing population of English Language Learners (ELLs). Whether you have just one ELL in your classroom or 50, this book provides

Drawn from the authors' combined 80 years of experience in higher education and their mentorship of young colleagues, this book is a comprehensive guide to thriving as an applied studio faculty member at

Just as a conductor's preparatory "upbeat" gesture at the beginning of a performance influences the way an ensemble performs, we too get to choose our "upbeat" - our thoughts and attitudes - at the start of

A healthier approach to music making begins today with the ideas and insights presented in Musician, Heal Thyself! Pain in the shoulder region is one of the most common problems

Preparing students to become choral music teachers is what Christopher Peterson does at Cal State University, Fullerton. His methods are both modern and extremely practical. Now presented in a textbook

Selected by the ACDA Publications Committee and recommended as a required text at many American choral institutions, this stunning anthology reveals the often-overlooked American composers of choral music

As chapters in this book demonstrate, choral pedagogy encompasses everything from conductors' gestures to the administrative management of the choir. The contributors to The Oxford Handbook of Choral

Drawing on ethnographic research and often deeply personal experiences with musical cultures, Queering the Field: Sounding out Ethnomusicology unpacks a history of sentiment that veils the treatment of

The first volume of Transforming Ethnomusicology focuses on ethical practice and collaboration, examining the power relations inherent in ethnography and offering new strategies for transforming

The nine ethnomusicologists who contributed to this volume present a diverse range of views, approaches, and methodologies that address indigenous peoples, immigrants, and marginalized communities.

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical and Qualitative Assessment in Music Education offers global, comprehensive, and critical perspectives on a wide range of conceptual and practical issues in

Extreme Exoticism offers a detailed documentation and wide-ranging investigation of music's role in shaping American perceptions of the Japanese, the influence of Japanese music on American composers, and

The most familiar entertainment icons and storylines from the 1950s and 60s remain potent signs that continue to resonate within contemporary American society and culture. Both the political Left and Right

Music has been a vital part of leisure activity across time and cultures. Contemporary commodification, commercialization, and consumerism, however, have created a chasm between conceptualizations of music

Questioning every musical practice, instructional aim, assumption, and conviction in music education, The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Music Education presents new and provocative approaches to the

To tease out and elucidate some of the salient problems, interests, and issues, The Oxford Handbook of Technology and Music Education critically situates technology in relation to music education from a