Student learning in school music ensembles is often focused on technical skill development. Give your students broader experience involving multiple music learnings, technical proficiency, cognition, and personal meaning. The Comprehensive Musicianship through Performance (CMP) model will help you plan instruction for school ensembles that promotes a holistic form of music learning and will allow you to use your creativity, passion, and vision. With model teaching plans and questions for discussion, this book can give you richer, more meaningful challenges and help you provide your students with deeper musical experiences. Sindberg combines the theoretical foundations of CMP with practical applications in a book that's useful for practicing teacher-conductors, scholars, and teacher educators alike.

Publisher description: This text helps lead both students and teachers to a deeper understanding of the music they encounter. This teaching model, developed by the Wisconsin Comprehensive Musicianship Project (CMP), invites music educators, both vetran and novice, to create meaningful, comprehensive lesson plans with the help of five basic points: Analysis, Outcomes, Strategies, Assessment, and Music selection. These points lead to a greater understanding of the music performed while helping teachers provide accountability through creative assessment strategies, program concerts that teach musical and historical concepts, encourage cross-curricular application of music education, and meet National Standards.

The purpose of this study was to examine teacher knowledge in classrooms where teachers use the Comprehensive Musicianship through Performance (CMP) Model, and examine the ways in which CMP facilitates student learning in the ensemble setting. Students who participate in school music programs typically spend countless hours in various ensembles, particularly band, choir, and orchestra. Mastery of technical proficiency remains the primary goal of these ensembles. Historical initiatives, such as comprehensive musicianship, sought to engage students in other musicianly roles. CMP, developed in Wisconsin in 1977, is a planned process to guide instruction in cognitive, affective, and skill development for students in performing ensembles. The Model consists of five planning points: analysis, assessment, music selection, outcomes, and strategies. This study examined how teachers who use CMP plan for student understanding in band.

Recordings of works composed for band and suitable for grades 2-5.

The concept of comprehensive musicianship has been discussed since the mid-sixties referring to the interdisciplinary study of music. Many directors focus solely on teaching performing skills such as rhythm and musical notation, limiting the student’s exposure to a well-rounded musical teaching experience. Comprehensive musicianship has shown an increase in student’s musical knowledge in history and enhanced musical theory skills, aural skills, performance skills and improvisation. Although there is significant research on high school bands and their implementation of comprehensive musicianship, there is limited research pertaining to the Comprehensive Musicianship through Performance (CMP) and the middle school band. This qualitative study will aim to define and understand the musical strategy of CMP and its methodology concerning to middle school bands utilizing data-driven best practices, unit planning, and lesson planning through bibliographic research within the discipline. Following the review of related literature, a series of Comprehensive Musicianship through Performance lesson plans and unit plans will be developed exhibiting CMP learning techniques within the middle school band ensemble. This study presents ideas based on CMP concepts used in music education: Analysis, Outcomes, Strategies, Assessment, and Music Selection. To structure the bibliographic research findings within the parameters of the performing ensemble, this study begins with an overview of the CMP concepts. The conclusion of this study will provide strategies and sample lessons that illustrate current research in data-driven best practices. The study presents examples of student enrichment exercises with the application of CMP formatted lesson and unit plans within the middle and secondary performing ensemble.

(Meredith Music Resource). An easy-to-follow, detailed curriculum that uses band performance as a means for teaching comprehensive musicianship. Blueprint runs a full scale of music history, theory and special projects, while serving as a step-by-step guide to band organization, rehearsal procedures and special units on musicianship.