sound innovations for concert band | brochure and sampler

SOUNDINNOVATIONS

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ENSEMBLE DEVELOPMENTChorales and Warm-up Exercises for Tone, Technique, and Rhythm

INTERMEDIATE CONCERT BANDSound Innovations: Ensemble Development for Intermediate Concert Band is a valuable resource for helping your students grow in their understanding and abilities as ensemble musicians. It contains 412 exercises, including nearly 70 chorales by some of today’s most renowned concert band composers. Exercises are grouped by key and presented in a variety of intermediate difficulty levels. Where possible, several exercises in the same category are provided to allow variety, while accomplishing the goals of that specific type of exercise. Many exercises and chorales are clearly marked with dynamics, articulations, style, and tempo. Other exercises are intentionally left flexible for the teacher to determine how best to use them in facilitating the goals and addressing the needs of their ensemble. Whether your students are progressing through exercises to better their technical facility, or challenging their musicianship with beautiful chorales, this book can be used after any band method or as a supplement to performance music.

Features

Chorales by

Tone quality Breathing Long tones Ensemble and section balance Blend Intonation Scales (Major, chromatic, natural, harmonic, and melodic minor) Technical facility Flexibility Arpeggios Intervals Harmonic progressions

Rhythm Rhythmic subdivision Meter Phrasing Articulation Dynamics Expression and style Etudes Integrated percussion Reinforcement of rudiments Harmonized scale chorales Chorales

Roland BARRETT Chris BERNOTAS

Robert SHELDON

Andrew BOYSEN

Todd STALTER

Ralph FORD Rossano GALANTE

Randall STANDRIDGE Michael STORY

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Sound Innovations Ensemble Development is the most diverse, practical, and comprehensive collection of the best band techniques used around the world. Nothing, absolutely nothing was left out of this book when it comes to developing an ensemble. Try to find a concept that is missing. Well, you can’t—they are all there! For me, Sound Innovations is the Swiss army knife of ensemble development. I love it!

Brian PeterWestlake High SchoolWestlake Village, CA

SI for CONCERT BAND ENSEMBLE DEVELOPMENT INTERMEDIATE INTRODUCTION

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Balance and Intonation: Perfect Intervals In these exercises, the ensemble begins by playing in unison, before some of the players move to create a perfect fifth, then return to the starting unison pitch. Following this pattern, students can focus on tuning the perfect intervals of a unison, fourth, fifth, and octave.

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Balance and Intonation: Layered TuningIn these exercises, intervals and triads are built by gradually adding one member of an interval or triad at a time, allowing students to focus on tuning vertical sonorities in a variety of contexts. With a similar focus, students will also gradually subtract members of vertical sonorities, one member at a time.

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Scales and ArpeggiosStudents can work toward mastering scales in a variety of keys in common rhythmic patterns. Exercises include: Major scales Natural, harmonic, and melodic minor scales Chromatic scales Scale patterns

• Scale patterns are designed to develop dexterity and familiarity with the scale of each key by using a number of different patterns

Changing scale rhythm • Changing scale rhythms present

scales in a challenging and unpredictable rhythmic context

Arpeggios • Various patterns to explore melodic

and harmonic aspects in each key

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Scale ChoraleThese chorales are harmonized scales in specified keys. Each student’s part has two lines: the top line (A), the scale, and the bottom line (B), their part in the chorale. Directors can choose a single student, a section, a family, or any other combination of instrumentalists to play the scale, while the rest of the ensemble plays the chorale setting.

Keys Included in the BookKeys are introduced in the following order: Concert B Major, G minor, E Major, C minor, F Major, D minor, A Major, F minor, D Major, B minor, C Major, A minor, G Major, and E minor. There is special emphasis on the keys most commonly used in intermediate band literature.

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Sound Innovations: Ensemble Development for Advanced Concert Band builds upon the concepts in Ensemble Development for Intermediate Concert Band with all new exercises and chorales, more technically and musically challenging material, and additional chorale composers. Many of today’s most renowned composers for concert band have contributed to this collection of over 70 chorales. With 399 exercises, this book is a valuable resource in helping students grow in their understanding and abilities as ensemble musicians. Exercises are grouped by key and presented in a variety of intermediate to advanced difficulty levels. Where possible, several exercises in the same category are provided to allow variety while accomplishing the same goals. Its flexibility makes it perfect for large ensemble rehearsals, lessons, and studio use.

Tone quality Breathing Long tones Ensemble and section balance Blend Intonation All major/minor scales Scale patterns Chromatic scales Chromatic scale patterns Flexibility Chromatic flexibility Arpeggios

Intervals Harmonic progressions Rhythm Rhythmic subdivision Meter changes Phrasing Articulation Dynamics Expression and style Harmonized scales Chorales Fully integrated percussion

Overview and Concepts

Roland BARRETT

Stephen MELILLO

Chris BERNOTAS

Robert SHELDON

Andrew BOYSEN

Todd STALTER

Ralph FORD

Jack STAMP

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Randall STANDRIDGE

David GILLINGHAM

Michael STORY

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Sound Innovations combines technical development and musical growth for ALL sections; I love that my brass, woodwind, and percussion sections can develop appropriate skills for their respective discipline, while also addressing ensemble development. It is expertly laid out and constructed to address essential skills for developing through advanced players and ensembles. I highly recommend its use for bands of all ability levels!

Richard HartsuikerRoxbury High SchoolSuccasunna, NJ

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BALANCE AND INTONATION: FAMILY BALANCE

Balance and Intonation: Family BalanceFamily Balance exercises are designed to focus on various aspects of ensemble, family, and section balance, as well as intonation, pitch tendencies, listening, and blending.

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PASSING THE TONIC

Passing the TonicThese exercises help students concentrate on improving their individual characteristic tone and tuning skills as they work to achieve ensemble balance, blend, and intonation. Each line is designed to help students become accustomed to the tonality of the key, develop a cohesive ensemble sound, and work toward stabilizing the pitch as they move the tonic note through various sections of the band.

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BALANCE AND INTONATION: PERFECT INTERVALS

Balance and Intonation: Perfect IntervalsIn these exercises, the ensemble begins by playing in unison before some of the players move to create a perfect fifth, and then return to the starting unison pitch. Following this pattern, students can focus on tuning the perfect intervals of a unison, fourth, fifth, and octave.

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BALANCE AND INTONATION: MOVING CHORD TONES

Balance and Intonation: Moving Chord TonesThese exercises begin with each part playing one of the three notes of a triad. Subsequent measures have each part cycle through the other two notes of that triad, before arriving back to the original pitch.

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BALANCE AND INTONATION: LAYERED TUNING

Balance and Intonation: Layered TuningIn these exercises, intervals and triads are built by gradually adding one member of an interval or triad at a time, allowing students to focus on tuning vertical sonorities in a variety of contexts. With a similar focus, students will also gradually subtract members of vertical sonorities, one member at a time.

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Chromatic Scale PatternThese exercises are designed to develop dexterity, facility, confidence, and familiarity with the chromatic scale by using a number of different patterns, each containing a variety of rhythms, meters, and articulations.

Chromatic ScaleA chromatic scale, starting on the tonic of the specified key, will help students develop technical proficiency and facility.

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ArpeggiosVarious patterns of arpeggios are included to help students develop technical proficiency, as well as explore melodic and harmonic aspects in each key.

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Expanding IntervalsThese exercises are presented with the expanding intervals moving downward and upward, as well as in parallel octaves, fifths, and thirds, to develop the skills of tuning horizontally and vertically while attending to balance, blend, and intonation.

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BALANCE AND INTONATION: SHIFTING CHORD QUALITIES

Balance and Intonation: Shifting Chord QualitiesThese exercises begin with the ensemble playing a major triad, then moving to a minor triad and a diminished triad. Cycling through these chord qualities will help foster horizontal and vertical tuning, as well as balance, blend, and pitch internalization.

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BALANCE AND INTONATION: DIATONIC HARMONY

Balance and Intonation: Diatonic Harmony By having students move between perfect intervals and diatonic triads, these exercises will foster the skills of vertical and horizontal tuning, balance, blend, and internalizing pitch, as well as a better understanding of common cadences and harmonic progressions.

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RhythmThese exercises focus on various aspects of rhythm and meter, providing material that will allow students to review and challenge their skills. They also provide excellent practice in sight-reading.

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CONCERT E b MAJOR SCALE AND CHORALE

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Scale ChoralesThese chorales are harmonized scales of specified keys. Each student’s part has two lines: the top line (A), the scale, and the bottom line (B), their part in the chorale. Directors can choose a single student, a section, a family, or any other combination of instrumentalists to play the scale, while the rest of the ensemble plays the chorale setting.

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David R. Gillingham

ChoralesA variety of chorales written by some of the finest composers of music for concert band provides opportunities for students to develop the essential skills of tone production, blend, balance, intonation, phrasing, dynamics, articulation, style, and musical expression.

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