The Dynamic Marching Band

The Dynamic Marching Band

Author: Wayne Markworth

Publisher: Ajoyin Publishing

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780978747237

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Markworth, former director of bands at Centerville High School in Centerville, Ohio, offers tried-and-true suggestions and information on the exciting world of contemporary high school marching band. (Music)


Our Marching Band

Our Marching Band

Author: Lloyd Moss

Publisher: Putnam Juvenile

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780399233357

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When all the girls and boys in the neighborhood take up musical instruments, at first they produce awful tones, but after much practice they are able to come together as a marching band that brings brassy, classy fun. Full-color illustrations.


Marching Bands and Drumlines

Marching Bands and Drumlines

Author: Paul Buyer

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9781574631517

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(Meredith Music Resource). Have you ever wanted to know the secrets to success of today's top marching bands and drumlines and how they achieve excellence? This extraordinary study takes you onto the practice field, inside the meeting room, and into the stadium including the "Five Factors Influencing Excellence" valuable to any high school or college band program. The leaders of eight outstanding organizations reveal their goals for success including: expectations, values, leadership styles, motivational techniques, practice habits, and recruiting strategies. A must-read for band directors, percussion educators, students and anyone pursuing excellence in leadership. (a href="http://youtu.be/-NNaXbjaX08" target="_blank")Click here for a YouTube video on Marching Bands and Drumlines(/a)


Marching Band Techniques

Marching Band Techniques

Author: M. Gregory Martin

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780764350870

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This book can be used as an accompanying text for the collegiate marching band techniques course and to help build a successful marching band program at a high school. Topics include everything from developing a program handbook to student leadership and adult staffing, budgets, rehearsal techniques, sample forms, and basic information regarding the development process of a marching band show, as well as basic drill design techniques. It also addresses typical mistakes made by young teachers and offers suggestions on how to avoid/handle those mistakes. Finally, workbook-style activities at the end of each chapter help support and reinforce the material presented. - Back cover.


Quick Reference for Band Directors

Quick Reference for Band Directors

Author: Ronald E. Kearns

Publisher: R&L Education

Published: 2011-09-28

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 1610483472

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Quick Reference for Band Directors is a go-to guide for new and experienced band directors. With tips on recruiting and retaining members, preparing lesson plans and program objectives, developing a booster group, budgeting, classroom management, using technology, and making emergency repairs, this book will soon number among your closest advisors. Learn how to build, maintain, and improve your program. Get tips on how to structure concert band, symphonic band, wind ensemble, marching band, small ensembles, jazz band, and pep band while developing musicianship. The book focuses on high school band programs but offers advice for elementary and middle school directors as well. Read it sequentially or select the chapters most pertinent to you. You'll come back again and again to benefit from the author's thirty years of teaching.


Habits of a Successful Band Director

Habits of a Successful Band Director

Author: Scott Rush

Publisher: GIA Publications

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9781579995706

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In Habits of a Successful Band Director Scott Rush provides: A how-to book for young teachers; A supplement for college methods classes; A commonsense approach to everyday problems band directors face; Sequential models for instruction that are narrow in scope; Solutions, in the form of information and probing questions, that allow assessment of a classroom situation; Valuable information in a new format and references to other helpful publications; A contemporary text for all band directors. Some of the topics covered in the ten chapters include: classroom organization and management, working with parents and colleagues, the importance of the warm-up, rehearsal strategies, selecting high-quality literature, and student leadership. The appendices provide valuable outlines and reproducible forms such as medical releases and pitch tendency chart.


Marching Band Arranging

Marching Band Arranging

Author: William Spencer-Pierce

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2008-09

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 9781438266411

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User-friendly book takes the reader step-by-step through the process of writing effective marching arrangements.