Meredith Music Publications

A Guide For High School Students, Their Guidance Counselors, Parents And Music Teachers This book details the fundamental knowledge, skills, and attitudes that prospective music majors need in order t...

100 outstanding middle and high school, collegiate and professional band and orchestra conductors passionately and candidly share their most powerful rehearsal techniques and cutting-edge program idea...

This colorful memoir of the great jazz drummer and witty storyteller recounts his life story and career through tributes, recollections and anecdotes - many of them his own hilarious quips - from more...

This academic set includes both The Winds of Change and The Winds of Change 2 at a 5 savings over buying them individually.

An easy-to-follow, detailed curriculum that uses band performance as a means for teaching comprehensive musicianship. Blueprint runs a full scale of music history, theory and special projects, while s...

A practical source of authentic assessment strategies for music educators. Includes over 70 pages of tasks and charts for assessing the learning process as well as the product.

Teaching Music with Passion is a one-of-a-kind, collective masterpiece of thoughts, ideas and suggestions about the noble profession of music education. Both inspirational and instructional, it will s...

An exciting, balanced approach to student performance, music learning and personal change. Written in an informal, engaging style, the text is highlighted by anecdotes, quotations, challenges for self...

A stimulating collection of unique concepts on teaching and conducting by 57 of today's most outstanding music educators. Contains to-the-point, thought-provoking ideas proven successful by master tea...

With assistance from the Virginia Commonwealth University Wind Ensemble, Ed Lisk demonstrates all of the rehearsal techniques described in his monumental text Alternative Rehearsal Techniques. Each co...

A stimulating collection of unique concepts on becoming a successful performer by 57 of today's most outstanding brass professionals. Contains to-the-point, thought-provoking ideas proven successful b...

Like his first critically acclaimed international bestseller Teaching Music with Passion, this new book from Peter Boonshaft is even more poignant and powerful. Called one of the most exciting and exh...

This book is a unique resource for both novice and experienced band directors, gathering effective teaching tools from the best in the field. Includes more than 40 chapters on: curriculum, then and no...

This essential book for all performers, teachers and conductors of wind instruments clears away the cobwebs of superstitions and the fixed ideas of what can and can't be done. Written by one of the gr...

This valuable collection of deeply insightful strategies is like finding expert trade secrets all placed together in one easy, quick-to-read source. Contributors to the book were even eager to get a l...

This book provides one huge room where everyone can gather to ask questions on the art of rehearsing and listen to answers from people who know. In his foreword, Frederick Fennell says, If you are a c...

This valuable collection of quick-to-read yet deeply insightful strategies is like finding expert trade secrets all placed in one convenient source. Contributors to the book were even eager to get a l...

This timeless treatise on the professional secrets of percussion performance, written by two of America's most outstanding orchestral percussionists, provides the kind of information that - before thi...

This exciting work, by one of today's most highly regarded music scholars, brings new light to the more than two dozen works by Ralph Vaughan Williams for military band, brass band and wind ensemble....

This handy guide features: more than 4, 000 foreign musical terms; terms in Italian, French and German; more than 160 musical examples; and comprehensive sections for percussion and strings.

A truly outstanding collection of timeless essays on basic repertory for band by Frank L. Battisti, John Bourgeois, Frank Erickson, Robert Garofalo, Donald Hunsberger, Francis McBeth, Kenneth L. Neidi...

Highlights the major components for survival and success during the formative years in a college, university or conservatory and provides examples and strategies to greatly assist the student musician...

Have you ever wanted to know the secrets to success of today's top marching bands and drumlines and how they achieve excellence? This extraordinary study takes you onto the practice field, inside the...

The individual selection of quality literature - one of the most important responsibilities facing today's band director - is greatly simplified using this one-of-a kind publication. It is the ultimat...

Written by one of today's most prolific author/educators, Boonshaft's new book is sure to top the charts following the international success of his first two best sellers. Filled with motivational ane...