Learning was never so much fun! If you're looking for a revolutionary band curriculum that builds solid musicianship while motivating your students to practice throughout the year, then you've found it! This full band curriculum is sound in its pedagogy, written by leading young band composers and educators, including Robert W. Smith and Michael Story. The integration of important songs from the band world, that are both familiar and fun to play, is one of the stellar aspects of this course. Throughout the book, students experience music from a veritable "who's who" list of great band composers. They'll discover the musical contributions of Percy Grainger, Gustav Holst, Aaron Copland, George Gershwin, Duke Ellington, John Williams and John Philip Sousa as well as classical composers. Some of the notable features include: A wonderful variety of melodies that span various styles and periods, including many popular themes students will know: -A 96-track CD in each student
Throughout the book, students experience music from a veritable who's who list of great band composers.
Throughout the book, students experience music from a veritable "who's who" list of great band composers.
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Throughout the book, students experience music from a veritable "who's who" list of great band composers.
Yamaha Band Ensembles provide interesting repertoire selections in an amazingly flexibly format that will meet the needs of your band year after year, regardless of how your group's instrumentation varies.
An insightful and imaginative study to deepen the performer's approach to music
The time-honored First Division Band Method retains the same pedagogically-sound sequence of learning that has taught over 12 million students the fundamentals of learning to play a band instrument.
Six solos in each book, with piano accompaniment, for all the standard band instruments. The titles are culled from the best of the First Division Band Course solo repertoire, with many titles appearing on state festival lists.
This book is intended as a logical continuation of Practical Studies for Bassoon Book 1.
The logical progression of materials allows it to complement any third level band method. Each book in this series is divided into eight units, each based on a major key and its parallel minor key.