Music Books

An easy-to-follow, detailed curriculum that uses band performance as a means for teaching comprehensive musicianship. Blueprint runs a full scale of music history, theory and special projects, while s...

A practical source of authentic assessment strategies for music educators. Includes over 70 pages of tasks and charts for assessing the learning process as well as the product.

Teaching Music with Passion is a one-of-a-kind, collective masterpiece of thoughts, ideas and suggestions about the noble profession of music education. Both inspirational and instructional, it will s...

An exciting, balanced approach to student performance, music learning and personal change. Written in an informal, engaging style, the text is highlighted by anecdotes, quotations, challenges for self...

A stimulating collection of unique concepts on teaching and conducting by 57 of today's most outstanding music educators. Contains to-the-point, thought-provoking ideas proven successful by master tea...

A stimulating collection of unique concepts on becoming a successful performer by 57 of today's most outstanding brass professionals. Contains to-the-point, thought-provoking ideas proven successful b...

Like his first critically acclaimed international bestseller Teaching Music with Passion, this new book from Peter Boonshaft is even more poignant and powerful. Called one of the most exciting and exh...

This book is a unique resource for both novice and experienced band directors, gathering effective teaching tools from the best in the field. Includes more than 40 chapters on: curriculum, then and no...

This book provides one huge room where everyone can gather to ask questions on the art of rehearsing and listen to answers from people who know. In his foreword, Frederick Fennell says, If you are a c...

This valuable collection of quick-to-read yet deeply insightful strategies is like finding expert trade secrets all placed in one convenient source. Contributors to the book were even eager to get a l...

This exciting work, by one of today's most highly regarded music scholars, brings new light to the more than two dozen works by Ralph Vaughan Williams for military band, brass band and wind ensemble....

This handy guide features: more than 4, 000 foreign musical terms; terms in Italian, French and German; more than 160 musical examples; and comprehensive sections for percussion and strings.

A truly outstanding collection of timeless essays on basic repertory for band by Frank L. Battisti, John Bourgeois, Frank Erickson, Robert Garofalo, Donald Hunsberger, Francis McBeth, Kenneth L. Neidi...

Highlights the major components for survival and success during the formative years in a college, university or conservatory and provides examples and strategies to greatly assist the student musician...

The individual selection of quality literature - one of the most important responsibilities facing today's band director - is greatly simplified using this one-of-a kind publication. It is the ultimat...

Written by one of today's most prolific author/educators, Boonshaft's new book is sure to top the charts following the international success of his first two best sellers. Filled with motivational ane...

A Composer's Insight, Volume 4 is the fourth in a five-volume series on major contemporary composers and their works for wind band. Included in this initial volume are rare, behind-the-notes perspecti...

In this delightful collection of anecdotes, Michael Colgrass invites the reader into his private encounters with Igor Stravinsky, Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Dizzy Gillespie, and a host of other...

With the rising numbers of homeschoolers in the United States and numerous research studies that prove the powerful impact of music instruction on a child's social and intellectual development, this b...

This book presents an interpretive analysis of musical masterworks by 20 great maestros from Arturo Toscanini to Carlos Kleiber. Also included are interviews on the art of conducting with Pierre Boule...

This valuable edition provides comprehensive information on selected wind band works that were inspired by and incorporate hymns, chorales and spirituals. It includes music from all performance levels...

This comprehensive guide of intermediate and advanced repertoire highlights 100 of the best compositions and arrangements in print. Annotated in detail - metric and key design, performance and program...

From advising to clinical experiences to personal relationships to coursework, life as an eduation student is both exhilarating and consuming. This book highlights the major components for survival an...

This book is a must-read for anyone interested in acquiring a back-stage tour of symphony life, not included in the price of a box-office ticket! GAIN a behind-the-scenes look at the orchestra as a fa...

From a first-year teacher whose instruments were stolen before entering his building, to a teacher who received 'hate mail' before her first day, to a teacher whose sensitivity, flexibility and insigh...