Teaching Performance Through Composition: Book 1
Perfect for your beginner band, this book contains six pieces that scaffold the learning process into rhythm first, pitch second. Melodic lines, starting with just do-re-mi in Concert B-flat, explore textural complexity through rounds, bass lines, pitched and rhythmic accompaniments.
Students compose with FORM, TEXTURE and TIMBRE whilst learning the purpose of expressive techniques by adding them when the music NEEDS variety based on a creative decision.
Lesson plans, templates, play-along files, downloadable-print-as-many-times-as-you-need parts and a hero of other resources are included in this MUST HAVE addition to your beginner band stuff!
The Teaching Performance through Composition series has been created to help you achieve composition in the ensemble space without sacrificing rehearsal time. A set of musical materials ranging from rhythms and melodies, to ostinato patterns and accompanying figures are provided in a range of keys and capabilities. Once your students can play their bits and pieces, you then collectively compose with the musical elements of structure, timbre, texture and expression to create your very own, original performance worthy pieces of music.
Every one a world premiere!
The Educational objectives of Book One are:
Ensemble: Establish awareness of group pulse, ensemble balance and spatial security. Form social relationships and develop self-discipline in a less structured learning space.
Student: Inaugurate music literacy, develop awareness of inner pulse and stimulate interrelationships between left-right hemispheres of the brain.
Director: Establish active and reflective learning routines; introduce yourself as a collaborative teacher; cue with face and breath.
Music Concepts: Structure/Form, Rhythm/Duration, Expressive techniques, Timbre, Texture
INSTRUMENTATION: See perusal score for details.
This work was commissioned by the Minnesota Band Directors Association and the Minnesota Junior Winds.