Expressive Musicianship: Exercises and Concepts to Develop your Band’s Musical Potential - Teacher's Manual

This method presents interpretative suggestions to enhance ensemble musicianship for band directors and students in the following nine areas:

Rhythm
Melody and Phrasing
Dynamics and Balance
Embellishments
Articulations and Accents
Style
Tempo
Releases
Intonation

Each area presents a variety of concepts for musical expressiveness, and there are more than 225 exercises and excerpts to use during warm-ups or when transferring an expressive concept to the band’s current literature.

This method includes:

Intonation exercises that illustrate how to properly tune a chord
Scale-based exercises written in the common keys of F, B-flat, and E-flat that can be used as part of a rehearsal warm-up to reinforce expressive concepts
Band excerpts to illustrate how expressive concepts can be transferred to actual wind band literature
A key sheet to explore how players’ parts may be edited to increase the quality of musicianship
More than 40 ideas for increasing the ensemble’s musical potential
A sample lesson plan and template to illustrate how to transfer knowledge to your current curriculum
Additional TIPS in the conductor’s score for teaching each concept

This method has a conductor's edition and 6 student books:

C instruments: Flute, Oboe, Keyboard Percussion
(no lower than F4 for Flute, and no higher than C6 for Oboe)
B-flat instruments: Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone, Trumpet, Baritone T.C.
(no lower than D4 for Tenor Saxophone, and no higher than E5 for Trumpet)
E-flat instruments: Alto Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone
(no lower than D4 and no higher than C6 for Alto and Baritone Saxophones)
F instruments: Horn
(no lower than B-flat3 and no higher than E5 for Horn)
Bass Clef instruments: Trombone, Baritone B.C., Bassoon
(no higher than D4 and no lower than B-flat2)
Bass Clef instruments: Tuba
(no higher than D3 and no lower than B-flat1)