Music Reference Books

This book is the companion resource to Boosters to the Rescue! which provides ready-to-use Word, Excel, and PDF files to help booster clubs set and achieve a long-term vision for their

A collection of practical tools that will modernize your program into a 21st-century booster organization, functioning as a successful small business that significantly supports the school music and arts

Just as a conductor's preparatory "upbeat" gesture at the beginning of a performance influences the way an ensemble performs, we too get to choose our "upbeat" - our thoughts and attitudes - at the start of

This series of interviews with preeminent composer, conductor, and teacher Alice Parker offers a fuller and more intimate view of her life and music than ever before. The conversations documented in

This primer for all musicians provides a reliable base for a lifetime of playing and singing. The principles in these pages are the elemental foundation of music education and will protect a musician from

An in-depth guide to lesson and rehearsal planning that provides a concise method for aligning music instruction with the Core Arts Standards while continuing to focus on active music

Need to adapt an SATB work for your small SAB choir? Have sopranos who can’t sing divisi, but know a great trumpet player who is happy to help out? Need to simplify a viola part for a beginner? In

Improv Games for One Player is an addictive book of musical games designed to help you be more expressive and musical in your music-making. This slender book should fit in just about every case

This book is a classic, now nationally distributed by GIA Publications. It is the primary reference for anyone interested in learning the Alexander Technique, written by perhaps the leading authority in the

Emotion in Choral Singing explores what it takes to truly experience the transcendent power of choral music and achieve genuine emotional connection between composer, performer, and

A healthier approach to music making begins today with the ideas and insights presented in Musician, Heal Thyself! Pain in the shoulder region is one of the most common problems

This handbook is designed to help music educators develop effective objectives, lesson plans, and assessments for their students, greatly improving successful classroom, instrumental, and choral

Help music students learn more in less time, reach higher goals, and become active participants in their education. An extremely beneficial text for band, choir, orchestra and general music that provides

Align music instruction with state and national standards and remain focused on active music making using this resource as your guide. This second edition includes new and updated chapters by a team with

Revised, expanded, and completely rewritten for this eighth and final edition, Professor Edwin E. Gordon's continued research reaffirms his place as perhaps the world's principal thinker and researcher in

This invaluable handbook, written by Edwin E. Gordon, discusseshow to design, construct, and interpret rating scales for measuring and evaluating music perfomance.

In this enlightening book, conductor Gerald Custer and composer Blake Henson offer practical tools and strategies to approach, unlock, and understand text: how it works, how it's structured, and what it

Laudate is a collection of chants presented so all musicians - not only liturgists or specialist singers - can explore a repertory so rich and extraordinary that it has dominated and influenced

A poem is a powerful thing - it can touch the heart in ways that mere words cannot. But a lyric poem has the benefit of a custom soundtrack, so listeners get to experience the words with the added emotional