(Meredith Music Resource). The second edition of Music for Concert Band is a new and comprehensive anthology of meticulously selected and graded literature for wind band. It contains hundreds of outstanding works appropriate for elementary through professional-level ensembles and will acquaint directors with a wide spectrum of quality literature both standard and new. Each recommended work contains pedagogical, stylistic and form indicators. In addition, the text contains a section on recommended marches and optional concert material.

Arranging for the Concert Band and the separately available workbook are intended to introduce students to basic techniques of arranging for the concert band. Arranging can be divided into two separate processes. The first deals with scoring and transcribing. Scoring is concerned with such things as voicing, doubling, balance and color. The term scoring also means the actual writing of notes on the score paper. Transcribing is scoring music written for one kind of musical instrument or group -- say a piano or orchestra -- for a different kind of group. This text deals with those matters. The second part of arranging is the more creative process of writing introductions, modulations, endings, background figures and so on.

This item is the E♭ alto Saxophone part of The Beginning Band Collection. Contents: The Charioteers (Mike Hannickel) The Argonauts (Mike Hannickel) Tikal (Mike Hannickel) Bold Adventure (Timothy Johnson) Cantigas Espania (James Curnow) Trailblazers (Douglas Court) Megaforce (James Curnow) Fields of Glory (Elliot Del Borgo) Festivo Fantastico (Paul Curnow) The Wild Old West (Paul Curnow) Appalachia (Stephen Bulla) Wedgewood Festival (Douglas Court).

This is a five-volume series on major contemporary composers and their works for wind band. Included in this initial volume are rare, behind-the-notes perspectives acquired from personal interviews with each composer. An excellent resource for conductors, composers or enthusiasts interested in acquiring a richer musical understanding of the composers' training, compositional approach, musical influences and interpretative ideas. Features the music of: Timothy Broege, Michael Colgrass, Michael Daugherty, David Gillingham, John Harbison, Karel Husa, Alfred Reed and others.