Brass Methods: An Essential Resource for Educators Conductors and Students
Soft / Music Magazines
8-09-2021
This book was designed for use in a heterogenous brass methods class and as a reference source for school band and orchestra directors. It provides concise descriptions and recommendations for all brass instruments, including instrument similarities and differences, breath support, historical perspective, and transposition. The information is easily accessible and provides in-depth, yet practical knowledge for music educators, conductors, and students. Includes:
Instrument assembly and correct habits of embouchure, hand position, and articulation
Carefully detailed fingering and slide position charts
Instructive photographs for each instrument
Progressive musical exercises and compositions
Advanced concepts including vibrato, overtone series, and multiple articulation
Troubleshooting mechanical problems, common repairs, and maintenance
Recommendations for selecting mouthpieces, instruments, method books, and study literature
Brass "toolbox” suggestions for common repairs and maintenance
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All of the exercises are eight measures long. If one has done any study of formal analysis, they will find that eight measures is a typical "period' of music and usually contains two, four-bar phrases (also typical in length). For example, many sonatinas, jazz standards, and pop songs use "32 Bar Form" (A A B A), "Binary Form" (A B), and "Ternary Form" (A B A), with each section often being eight bars. Thus, eight measures (one period of music) makes the perfect length for sight-reading studies, in my opinion.