1st Edition

Developing Expression in Brass Performance and Teaching

By Gregory R. Jones Copyright 2016
    198 Pages
    by Routledge

    198 Pages
    by Routledge

    Developing Expression in Brass Performance and Teaching helps university music teachers, high school band directors, private teachers, and students develop a vibrant and flexible approach to brass teaching and performance that keeps musical expression central to the learning process. Strategies for teaching both group and applied lessons will help instructors develop more expressive use of articulation, flexibility in sound production, and how to play with better intonation.

    The author shares strategies from today’s best brass instrument performers and teachers for developing creativity and making musical expression central to practicing and performing. These concepts presented are taken from over thirty years of experience with musicians like Wynton Marsalis, Barbara Butler, Charles Geyer, Donald Hunsberger, Leonard Candelaria, John Haynie, Bryan Goff, members of the Chicago Symphony and New York Philharmonic and from leading music schools such as the Eastman School of Music, The University of North Texas and The Florida State University. 

    The combination of philosophy, pedagogy, and common sense methods for learning will ignite both musicians and budding musicians to inspired teaching and playing.

     

    -Table of Contents-

     

    Forward

    1

    The Creative Teacher and Student

    2

    The Athlete and the Artist

    3

    The Brass Embouchure

    4

    The Brass Mouthpiece

    5

    Tone as Our Voice

    6

    Understanding Brass Intonation

    7

    A Philosophy for Technique

    8

    Lip Flexibility for Expressive Tone

    9

    The Tools of Articulation

    10

    Effective Practicing

    11

    Using Filters to Clarify Your Playing

    12

    Planning for Performance

    13

    Musical Breathing

    14

    Planning Your Interpretation

    15

    Tools for Expressing Musical Peaks

    16

    Improvisation to Exercise Creativity and Emotion

    17

    Understanding Performance Anxiety

    18

    Models for Creative Playing

    19

    Advice for Applied Teachers

    20

    Conducting Brass Players

    21

    Creativity and Student Ownership

    Appendixes

    Bibliography

    Topical Index

     

    Biography

    Gregory R. Jones is the Chair of the Department of Music at Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne, following twenty-eight years as trumpet professor and conductor of the brass choir at Truman State University.