1st Edition

Strategies, Tips, and Activities for the Effective Band Director Targeting Student Engagement and Comprehension

By Robin Linaberry Copyright 2021
260 Pages 130 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

260 Pages 130 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

260 Pages 130 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Strategies, Tips, and Activities for the Effective Band Director: Targeting Student Engagement and Comprehension is a resourceful collection of highly effective teaching strategies, solutions, and activities for band directors. Chapters are aligned to cover common topics, presenting several practical lesson ideas for each topic. In most cases, each pedagogical suggestion is supported by... Read more

Chapter 1. Introduction: The "Why" of This Book / Chapter 2. Score Study / Chapter 3. Warm-Ups and More / Chapter 4. On the Sound: Tone Quality, Blend, Dynamics, Ensemble Balance, and Articulations / Chapter 5. Intonation and Tuning / Chapter 6. Rhythm, Meter, and Tempo / Chapter 7. Percussion / Chapter 8. In the Rehearsal / Chapter 9. The "Intangibles" / Chapter 10. Wrap-Up / Chapter 11. The School Marching Band Program (Christian Carichner) / Chapter 12. Conducting the School Jazz Ensemble (Daniel Fabricius)

Biography

Robin Linaberry is the retired Director of Bands at Maine-Endwell Senior High School in Endwell, NY, and has held adjunct conducting/teaching positions at Binghamton University, Ithaca College, and SUNY Broome Community College.