Woodwind Methods: An Essential Resource for Educators, Conductors, and Students - Couverture souple

West, Charles

 
9781574634365: Woodwind Methods: An Essential Resource for Educators, Conductors, and Students

Synopsis

This book was designed for use in a one or two semester heterogeneous college woodwind methods class or as a quick reference manual for school band and orchestra directors. It provides concise descriptions including instrument similarities and differences, breath support, reed adjustment and transposition. Includes:

· Instrument assembly, embouchure, hand position and articulation

· Carefully detailed fingering charts with clearly detailed primary fingerings and explanation of selected alternate fingerings and trill fingerings

· Progressive musical exercises/compositions, often harmonized, to allow students to learn new fingerings at aneven pace while enjoying the ensemble sound

· Advanced concepts: alternate fingerings, vibrato, flicking, and multiple articulation

· Trouble shooting for mechanical or reed problems, repair and maintenance

· Recommendations for selecting: Reeds, Mouthpieces & ligatures, Instruments, Method books and study literature, Constructing a basic woodwind “toolbox”

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