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Meredith Music Woodwind Methods: An Essential Resource for Educators, Conductors & Students
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Description
This book was designed for use in a one or two semester heterogeneous college woodwind methods class or as a quick reference manual for school band and orchestra directors. It provides concise descriptions including instrument similarities and differences, breath support, reed adjustment and transposition. Includes:
Instrument assembly, embouchure, hand position and articulation
Carefully detailed fingering charts with clearly detailed primary fingerings and explanation of selected alternate fingerings and trill fingerings
Progressive musical exercises/compositions, often harmonized, to allow students to learn new fingerings at an even pace while enjoying the ensemble sound
Advanced concepts: alternate fingerings, vibrato, flicking, and multiple articulation
Trouble shooting for mechanical or reed problems, repair and maintenance
Recommendations for selecting: Reeds, Mouthpieces & ligatures, Instruments, Method books and study literature, Constructing a basic woodwind “toolbox”
Instrument assembly, embouchure, hand position and articulation
Carefully detailed fingering charts with clearly detailed primary fingerings and explanation of selected alternate fingerings and trill fingerings
Progressive musical exercises/compositions, often harmonized, to allow students to learn new fingerings at an even pace while enjoying the ensemble sound
Advanced concepts: alternate fingerings, vibrato, flicking, and multiple articulation
Trouble shooting for mechanical or reed problems, repair and maintenance
Recommendations for selecting: Reeds, Mouthpieces & ligatures, Instruments, Method books and study literature, Constructing a basic woodwind “toolbox”
Features
by Charles West
ISBN 978-1-57463-381-8