Byo The Woodwinds: Perform, Understand, Teach

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-30304-6
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten

The Woodwinds: Perform, Understand, Teach provides comprehensive coverage about the woodwind family of musical instruments for prospective instrumental music teachers. What sets this book apart is its focus on how to teach the instruments. Preparing students in the how of teaching is the ultimate goal of the woodwind class, and is facilitated by book experiences that organize the information around its use in teaching beginning instrumentalists.

In developing performance and understanding, pre-service teachers are positioned to learn to teach—contrasted with an "old-school" belief that one must first spend much time tediously trying to understand how things work before playing the instruments. The book concentrates on two broad categories surrounding woodwind study—Foundations and Mechanics. In Foundations, a topic is situated in a big picture context, calling attention to the broad applicability of information across instruments.

The Mechanics are organized by instrument (flute, clarinet, saxophone, oboe, bassoon) and, within each instrument, according to how an effective teacher might organize experiences for novice learners. Basic embouchure and air stream are covered first, followed by instrument assembly, then hands and holding. Embouchure coverage returns in greater depth, then articulation, and finally "the mechanism," which includes sections on the instruments of the family, transposition, range, special fingerings, tuning and intonation, and reeds.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Byo, James

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Preliminaries. Chapter 1: Preliminaries. Part 2: Teaching the Instruments. Chapter 2: Flute. Chapter 3: Clarinet. Chapter 4: Saxophone. Chapter 5: Oboe. Chapter 6: Bassoon. Part 3: Using Foundations for Perspective. Chapter 7: Using Foundations For Perspective.

Über Autor(innen)

James L. Byo is Carl Prince Matthies Professor of Music Education at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.