Strategies, Tips, and Activities for the Effective Band Director
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- ISBN 9780367472191
- Weight: 640g
- Dimensions: 210 x 280mm
- Publication Date: 30 Apr 2021
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 excerpts from standard concert band literature. Topics covered include:
- score study shortcuts;
- curriculum development;
- percussion section management;
- group and individual intonation;
- effective rehearsal strategies;
- and much more!
This collection of specific concepts, ideas, and reproducible pedagogical methods—not unlike short lesson plans—can be used easily and immediately. Ideal for band directors of students at all levels, Strategies, Tips, and Activities for the Effective Band Director is the product of more than three decades of experience, presenting innovative approaches, as well as strategies that have been borrowed, revised, and adapted from scores of successful teachers and clinicians.
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.
