#40730 Expressive Techniques for Orchestra
Composer: Kathleen DeBerry Brungard, Michael Alexander, Sandra Dackow, Gerald E. Anderson
Are you tired of juggling multiple technique books to teach scales, etudes, warm-ups, shifting, positions, vibrato, and tone production? Expressive Techniques for Orchestra offers a wealth of technical and musical experiences for the advanced middle school through upper-level high school student under one cover. This all-in-one book follows any published Book II, but is much more than just a Book III. It may be used sequentially or by individual units, as needed.
Expressive Sight-Reading for Orchestra
Composer: Michael Alexander, Kathleen DeBerry Brungard, Sandra Dackow
Expressive Sight-Reading for Orchestra offers a sequential approach to teaching sight-reading in the string ensemble. Applicable to performing ensembles from middle school through high school, it provides a comprehensive curriculum for group sight-reading instruction.
#40823 Book 1
Featuring:• Over 45 sequenced sight-reading pieces arranged for string orchestra by Michael Alexander and Sandra Dackow plus teacher Sight-Reading notes written for each arrangement by Kathleen DeBerry Brungard.• Includes 140 sequential sight-reading exercises applying the latest research in string pedagogy• Materials organized into 12 units which progressively address bowing styles, rhythms, meter, and key (D, G, C Major; b, e, a minor).• Pre-test/Post-test in each unit for assessing individual student progress.• Units 1-6 contains: Rhythm reading exercises; Scale warm-ups; A unison reading; 4-6 orchestra readings (Violin I & II, Viola, Cello & Bass)• Units 7-12 contains: Scale warm-ups for each piece; Longer orchestra readings.
#40835 Book 2
Featuring:• 29 Individual sight-reading pieces selected from the symphonic repertoire, arranged by for string orchestra by Sandra Dackow and Michael Alexander• Sight-Reading notes for the teacher written for each arrangement by Kathleen DeBerry Brungard•Materials arranged into 3 Units organized by hierarchy of Meter, Rhythms, and Key•Pre-test/Posttest for each unit for assessing individual student progress•Unit 1 contains: Repertoire in Primary Keys, Meters, and Rhythms (Book I Review)•Unit 2 contains: Repertoire in New Meters and Rhythms•Unit 3 contains: Repertoire in New Keys: A, E, F, B-flat, E-flat, A-flat Major as well as F-sharp, D, G, C, F Minor