Band Music Handbook (eBook)

A Catalog of Emerging Band Repertoire

Christopher M. Cicconi (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
192 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4422-6864-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Christopher M. Cicconi presents junior high, high school, college, professional, and community band directors and their ensembles an essential tool for discovering and selecting appropriate repertoire. Each work lists its date of origin, duration, exact instrumentation, and publisher. A number of appendices that further classify the repertoire.

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The Band Music Handbook: A Comprehensive Catalog of Band Repertoire presents professional, college, community, and school band directors with an essential tool for discovering and selecting appropriate repertoire. Christopher M. Cicconi presents a wide-ranging catalog of band music composed in the past twenty-five years. From the work of John Adams to Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, the music cataloged includes works appropriate for all ages and skill levels.Each work listed includes date of origin, duration, exact instrumentation, and publisher. A number of appendixes further classify the repertoire by composer, title, and duration and offer a detailed list of publishers, a bibliography for further reading, and a comprehensive march list. Following the model of the best-selling Daniels' Orchestral Music, The Band Music Handbook puts the information that band conductors, directors, and musicians need right at their fingertips. It is also an essential tool for future music educators and instrumental music education students seeking assistance in repertoire selection.

Autor

Christopher M. Cicconi is director of bands and assistant professor of music education at Towson University. Conductor of the Towson University Symphonic Band, he also teaches courses in conducting, methods of teaching instrumental music in secondary education, and brass methods. Prior to his arrival in Maryland, Cicconi earned a doctor of musical arts degree from the University of Miami, where he was awarded a Henry Mancini Fellowship.

Inhalt

PrefaceCitation GuideList of AbbreviationsComposition CatalogAppendix A: Works Listed by TitleAppendix B: Works Listed by DurationAppendix C: Composer IndexAppendix D: Composers Listed by NationalityAppendix E: Works That Include Chorus, Solo Voice, Solo Instrument, and Obscure InstrumentsAppendix F: Transcriptions and ArrangementsAppendix G: Orchestra l Transcriptions of Mark HindsleyAppendix H: Marches of James Henry FilmoreAppendix I: Marches of Karl KingAppendix J: Marches of John Phillip SousaAppendix K: Publisher and Source InformationBibliography

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.2.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Music Finders
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
• Schlagworte: amateur band • band director • Brass • community band • concert band • High School • how to direct a band • learn band music • marching bands • Music Education • music history and criticism • NAfME • orchestra • perform band music • Reference • Repertoire • Strings • wind band
• ISBN-10: 1-4422-6864-6 / 1442268646
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-6864-7 / 9781442268647