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INNOVATIONS for CONCERT BAND BROCHURE & SAMPLER
SI for CONCERT BAND ENSEMBLE DEVELOPMENT INTERMEDIATE INTRODUCTION
™ Ensemble Development Intermediate
ENSEMBLE DEVELOPMENT
Chorales and Warm-up Exercises for Tone, Technique, and Rhythm
INTERMEDIATE CONCERT BAND
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Westlake High School Westlake Village, CA
Features T one quality B reathing L ong tones E nsemble and section balance B lend Intonation S cales (Major, chromatic, natural, harmonic, and melodic minor) T echnical facility F lexibility A rpeggios Intervals Harmonic progressions
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Ensemble Development Advanced
Sound Innovations Ensemble Development is the most diverse, practical, and comprehensive collection of the best band techniques used around the world. Nothing, absolutely nothing was left out of this book when it comes to developing an ensemble. Try to find a concept that is missing. Well, you can’t—they are all there! For me, Sound Innovations is the Swiss army knife of ensemble development. I love it! Brian Peter
Sound Innovations: Ensemble Development for Intermediate Concert Band is a valuable resource for helping your students grow in their understanding and abilities as ensemble musicians. It contains 412 exercises, including nearly 70 chorales by some of today’s most renowned concert band composers. Exercises are grouped by key and presented in a variety of intermediate difficulty levels. Where possible, several exercises in the same category are provided to allow variety, while accomplishing the goals of that specific type of exercise. Many exercises and chorales are clearly marked with dynamics, articulations, style, and tempo. Other exercises are intentionally left flexible for the teacher to determine how best to use them in facilitating the goals and addressing the needs of their ensemble. Whether your students are progressing through exercises to better their technical facility, or challenging their musicianship with beautiful chorales, this book can be used after any band method or as a supplement to performance music.
Chorales by
Roland BARRETT
Chris BERNOTAS
Robert SHELDON
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Andrew BOYSEN
Todd STALTER
Ralph FORD
Randall STANDRIDGE
R hythm R hythmic subdivision M eter P hrasing A rticulation D ynamics E xpression and style E tudes Integrated percussion Reinforcement of rudiments H armonized scale chorales Chorales
Rossano GALANTE
Michael STORY
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Ensemble Development Intermediate
BALANCE AND INTONATION: SHIFTING CHORD QUALITIES
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Advanced Rhythm and Meter
Ensemble Development Advanced
195
This section provides student exercises using more challenging rhythms and meters, exploring advanced rhythmic patterns in meter, exploring advanced eighth-note triplet patterns, and quarter-note triplets. Also included are basic presentations of , , , , and meter, and examples of changing meter from to and to .
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METER
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SI for CONCERT BAND ENSEMBLE DEVELOPMENT INTERMEDIATE FEATURES
Articulation
46
ARTICULATION
Students will further develop their abilities to perform and control dynamic levels while practicing sudden changes, gradual changes, extreme contrasts, and nuances of volume.
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DYNAMICS
Etude
138
Ensemble Development Intermediate
These exercises allow students to practice performing, controlling, changing, and contrasting a variety of articulations in many contexts.
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decresc.
Percussion parts are provided for battery instruments, accessory, mallets, and timpani, offering the percussion section an opportunity to perform as members of the ensemble with parts integrated into every exercise in the book.
Ensemble Development Advanced
142
SCALE CHORALE Slowly
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Keys are introduced in the following order: Concert B Major, G minor, E Major, C minor, F Major, D minor, A Major, F minor, D Major, B minor, C Major, A minor, G Major, and E minor. There is special emphasis on the keys most commonly used in intermediate band literature.
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These chorales are harmonized scales in specified keys. Each student’s part has two lines: the top line (A), the scale, and the bottom line (B), their part in the chorale. Directors can choose a single student, a section, a family, or any other combination of instrumentalists to play the scale, while the rest of the ensemble plays the chorale setting.
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INTRODUCTION ENSEMBLE DEVELOPMENT ADVANCED SI for CONCERT BAND
Ensemble Development Intermediate
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ENSEMBLE DEVELOPMENT
Chorales and Warm-up Exercises for Tone, Technique, and Rhythm
ADVANCED CONCERT BAND
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Roxbury High School Succasunna, NJ
Chorales by
Overview and Concepts T one quality B reathing L ong tones E nsemble and section balance B lend I ntonation A ll major/minor scales S cale patterns C hromatic scales C hromatic scale patterns F lexibility C hromatic flexibility A rpeggios
Ensemble Development Advanced
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Sound Innovations combines technical development and musical growth for ALL sections; I love that my brass, woodwind, and percussion sections can develop appropriate skills for their respective discipline, while also addressing ensemble development. It is expertly laid out and constructed to address essential skills for developing through advanced players and ensembles. I highly recommend its use for bands of all ability levels! Richard Hartsuiker
Sound Innovations: Ensemble Development for Advanced Concert Band builds upon the concepts in Ensemble Development for Intermediate Concert Band with all new exercises and chorales, more technically and musically challenging material, and additional chorale composers. Many of today’s most renowned composers for concert band have contributed to this collection of over 70 chorales. With 399 exercises, this book is a valuable resource in helping students grow in their understanding and abilities as ensemble musicians. Exercises are grouped by key and presented in a variety of intermediate to advanced difficulty levels. Where possible, several exercises in the same category are provided to allow variety while accomplishing the same goals. Its flexibility makes it perfect for large ensemble rehearsals, lessons, and studio use.
I ntervals H armonic progressions R hythm R hythmic subdivision M eter changes P hrasing A rticulation D ynamics E xpression and style H armonized scales C horales F ully integrated percussion
Roland BARRETT
Chris BERNOTAS
Andrew BOYSEN
Ralph FORD
Rossano GALANTE
David GILLINGHAM
Stephen MELILLO
Robert SHELDON
Todd STALTER
Jack STAMP
Randall STANDRIDGE
Michael STORY
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SI for CONCERT BAND ENSEMBLE DEVELOPMENT ADVANCED FEATURES
PASSING THE TONIC
Passing the Tonic
PASSING THE TONIC
Ensemble Development Intermediate
b ˙ & b b 44
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Ensemble Development Advanced
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These exercises help students concentrate on improving their individual characteristic tone and tuning skills as they work to achieve ensemble balance, blend, and intonation. Each line is designed to help students become accustomed to the tonality of the key, develop a cohesive ensemble sound, and work toward stabilizing the pitch as they move the tonic note through various sections of the band.
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Family Balance exercises are designed to focus on various aspects of ensemble, family, and section balance, as well as intonation, pitch tendencies, listening, and blending.
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BALANCE AND INTONATION: PERFECT INTERVALS
Balance and Intonation: Perfect Intervals
BALANCE AND INTONATION: PERFECT INTERVALS 1
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Balance and Intonation: Moving Chord Tones These exercises begin with each part playing one of the three notes of a triad. Subsequent measures have each part cycle through the other two notes of that triad, before arriving back to the original pitch.
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1 2
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FEATURES ENSEMBLE DEVELOPMENT ADVANCED SI for CONCERT BAND
BALANCE AND INTONATION: LAYERED TUNING
Balance and Intonation: Layered Tuning
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Ensemble Development Advanced
In these exercises, intervals and triads are built by gradually adding one member of an interval or triad at a time, allowing students to focus on tuning vertical sonorities in a variety of contexts. With a similar focus, students will also gradually subtract members of vertical sonorities, one member at a time.
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Ensemble Development Intermediate
Chromatic Flexibility
CHROMATIC FLEXIBILITY
Flexibility exercises are intended to help students reinforce good embouchure habits and muscle development, as well as breath support, intensity of airstream, and intonation.
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These exercises are presented with the expanding intervals moving downward and upward, as well as in parallel octaves, fifths, and thirds, to develop the skills of tuning horizontally and vertically while attending to balance, blend, and intonation.
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Ensemble Development is an invaluable resource that allows band directors to teach virtually every facet of ensemble playing from most basic to truly refined. This book escapes the monotony of daily warm-ups with fresh sounding exercises that my students thoroughly enjoy and look forward to playing.
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Mandy DeShrage
South Woods Middle School Syosset, NY
Balance and Intonation: Shifting Chord Qualities These exercises begin with the ensemble playing a major triad, then moving to a minor triad and a diminished triad. Cycling through these chord qualities will help foster horizontal and vertical tuning, as well as balance, blend, and pitch internalization.
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INNOVATIONS for CONCERT BAND
WHICH LEVEL IS RIGHT FOR YOU?
AUSTRAL IA EDITION N !
AUSTRAL IA EDITION N !
BOOK 1
BOOK 2
ENSEMBLE DEVELOPMENT FOR INTERMEDIATE CONCERT BAND
ENSEMBLE DEVELOPMENT FOR ADVANCED CONCERT BAND
The flagship of Sound Innovations, Book 1 comes in several different editions. Each student book includes an instrument-specific DVD and MP3 CD. Organized into six short levels, Book 1 has clean page layouts, clear goals for each exercise.
The perfect resource for helping your students grow in their understanding and abilities as ensemble musicians. Whether your students are progressing through exercises to better their technical facility, or challenging their musicianship with beautiful chorales, this book can be used after any band method or as a supplement to performance music.
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STRING ORCHESTRA AND GUITAR
Continue your students’ musical journey with Sound Innovations for Concert Band, Book 2, where new concepts are isolated and taught individually for better retention. Ensemble playing is further reinforced, and plenty of practice performance opportunities are provided throughout the book. Student books include an instrument-familyspecific DVD and MP3 CD.
Building upon the concepts in Ensemble Development for Intermediate Concert Band, this level features all new exercises and chorales, more technically and musically challenging material, and additional chorale composers.
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