Teaching Music Through Performance In Beginning Band

Nationally known leaders in music education offer insights and suggestions for improving the musicianship of your elementary or middle school band, and the series' signature Teacher Resource Guides offer invaluable insights to 55 of the best newer works for beginning band in print.

Each Teacher Resource Guide includes information on the composer, the composition, historical background, technical requirements, stylistic considerations, form and structure, and suggested recordings and references. A high-quality recording of these works is available separately ( ). In addition, chapters by leading beginning band educators include: "Establishing an Effective Rehearsal Procedure for Middle School Students" by Erin Cole; "Beginners or Musicians: Risk/Reward of Musicianship" by Dennis W. Fisher; "Confessions of a Music Junkie" by Cheryl Floyd; "Great Beginnings: Warm-Up Strategies for Success" by Linda J. Gammon; "Nurturing Creativity" by John O'Reilly; "A Journey to Creativity through Musical Changes" by Marguerite Wilder.

Titles include: Dimensions (Ford) · Starship (O'Reilly) · Greek Folk Trilogy (McGinty) · Our Kingsland Spring (Hazo) · and more.

• Dimensions - Ralph Ford
• Midnight Mission - Brian Balmages
• Rising Star - Samuel Hazo
• Samaurai - Barry Ward
• Siyahamba - Douglas Wagner
• Two Appalachian Songs - Michael Story
• Andante Con Moto - Franz Schubert/Stephen Bulla
• Ave Verum Corpus - W A Mozart/Mark Williams
• Bells of Freedom - David Gillingham
• Brother James' Air - James Leath MacBeth Bain/Douglas Wagner
• Cahokia - Jared Spears
• Canticle - Douglas Wagner
• Chippewa Lullaby - Anne McGinty
• Courtlandt County Festival - William Owens
• Crusade - Vince Gassi
• Danse Antiqua - Chris Sharp
• Fanfare for a New Age - Michael Story
• Gathering in the Glen - Michael Sweeney
• Little Brazil Suite - Andrew Balent
• Maesong - William Owens
• May Day in Red Square - Christopher Prentice/Barbara Lambrecht
• Mountain Song - Jared Spears
• Pioneer Songs - Larry Daehn
• Pirate's Cove - Gene Milford
• Russian Folk Dance - Elena Roussanova Lucas
• Shenandoah - Robert W Smith/Michael Story
• Skye Boat Song - John O'Reilly
• Southern Chorale and March - Murray Houllif
• Star Voyage - Gene Milford
• Starship - John O'Reilly
• Storm Mountain Jubilee - Carl Strommen
• Symphony No. 15, Finale - W A Mozart/Larry Daehn
• Two Dances from "Capriol Suite" - Peter Warlock/Johnny Vinson
• Uskudar - Robert W Smith/Michael Story
• Ye Banks and Braies O' Bonnie Doon - Michael Sweeney
• A New World Adventure - Douglas Court
• A Summer Waltz - Murray Houllif
• An Irish Air - Robert Sheldon
• Ariodante Suite - G F Handel/Chuck Elledge
• Early One Morning - Duncan Stubbs
• Greek Folk Trilogy - Anne McGinty
• Incantation and Ritual - Brian Balmages
• Journey Down Niagara - Christopher Tucker
• March of the Brigadier Guards - Sir Arthur Sullivan/Bruce Pearson
• Praises - Jared Spears
• Psalm 42 - Samuel Hazo
• Scenes from Russia - Elliott Del Borgo
• Simple Song - Ralph Hultgren
• A Sailor's Odyssey - David Bobrowitz
• Bartok Variations - Timothy Broege
• Crossings in Time - Michael Sweeney
• Three Renaissance Dances - John Moss
• The Band in the Square (on the 4th of July) - Pierre LaPlante
• Our Kingsland Spring - Samuel Hazo