Starting Out Right: Beginning Band Pedagogy is the only complete resource for organizing, planning, and teaching beginning woodwind, brass, and percussion students. The book covers every aspect of teaching beginning band students from the first sounds on the instruments through the first full-band performances. It is the only comprehensive reference that offers step-by-step guidelines for teaching each beginning band instrument, as well as organizing and running a successful beginning band progr...
Beyond the Baton: What Every Conductor Needs to Know
by Music Director Diane Wittry
Leon Kirchner: Composer, Performer, and Teacher (Eastman Studies in Music)
by Robert Riggs
In this first biography of American composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher Leon Kirchner (1919-2009), Robert Riggs paints a vivid picture of an extraordinary, multifaceted musician. Refugees from Hitler's Third Reich (Schoenberg, Bloch, and Stravinsky) dominated Kirchner's early development, and he in turn became a transformative mentor for later generations at the University of Southern California, Mills College, and Harvard University. Kirchner's performance persona is brought to life by hi...
Rooted in the experience of a professional choral conductor, this book provides a guide to practical issues facing conductors of choral ensembles at all levels, from youth choruses to university ensembles, church and community choirs, and professional vocal groups. Paired with the discussion of practical challenges is a discussion of over fifty key works from the choral literature, with performance suggestions to aid the choral conductor in directing each piece. Dealing with often-overlooked y...
Conductor as Leader, The: Principles of Leadership Applied to Life on the Podium
by Ramona M Wis
From the best-selling author of I Love My Job But It’s Killing Me a lesson plan for the successful music educator in today’s new world. It’s always been challenging to keep students focused in a world where distractions and other factors interfere with their ability to learn, and that’s even more true as we find ourselves in unprecedented and ever-changing educational situations now. It’s becoming more difficult to get students to connect and engage with our riveting lessons as the list of t...
Through two highly successful editions, The Study of Orchestration has set the standard for orchestration texts, providing the most comprehensive treatment of both orchestration and instrumentation. The Third Edition retains the elements that have made the book a classic while embracing new technology and responding to the needs of today's students and teachers.
Choral Conducting: Philosophy and Practice, Second Edition is an updated resource for conductors and singers alike, a college-level text for students of choral conducting that considers conducting and singing from a holistic perspective. This singer-friendly and voice-healthy approach examines the rehearsal environment alongside its musical performance counterpart. The author explores what is involved in leading a choral group, examining theories of learning and human behavior to understand the...
For nearly 40 years, Sheldon Morgenstern has devoted his life's work to classical music in a highly successful career as a musician, symphony orchestra conductor, teacher and director of a major music festival. In this memoir, he weaves together the engaging story of his own experiences with forthright and harsh commentary on the people and institutions responsible for the rapidly deteriotating state of the performing arts in the United States and Canada. In a work rich with colourful anecdotes...
Conducting for a New Era fills in a lacuna by offering guidance and practical advice for conducting twentieth-century and contemporary repertoire. The book begins with a look at the development of the art of conducting during the first half of the twentieth century. Distinctions are made between conductors who pursued populist careers and those who established the foundations for the new art form of the twenty-first century. The book goes on to discuss the technical resources required to negotia...
