bands (music)

This volume of the best-selling Teaching Music through Performances in Band series sets new standards as a comprehensive and indispensable resource for band directors. Containing current perspectives on the wind band world from internationally respected leaders, together with analyses of 100 significant works for band from grades 2 through 6, this book gives band directors essential tools for success in the profession.--[book jacket].

"Nikki is in the spotlight. A reality TV crew will follow her and her friends for the whole month of March as they record their hit song together. But will the excitement also cause unexpected problems, now that cameras are everywhere Nikki and her friends go?"--.

Do the crime, do the time behind bars. But once you've been in, it can be tough to stay out. Ian's band is finally taking off. And good thing he needs the money from gigs. But the band's front man and Ian's best friend, Orlando, can't catch a break as a black kid in their white town. Tension with a security guard lands both Ian and Orlando in jail, and when Orlando is held indefinitely, someone will need to take over the band until he gets out. When Orlando chooses Chase, the band's bassist, to step in, Ian is slighted. As Ian's resentment builds, he plots his revenge. One by one, he turns his bandmates against one another, with tragic results. As Ian holds his friends close and his enemies closer, no one can tell which is which until it's too late.

Four fan-girls of The Ruperts, sneak away to a hotel in Manhattan to see their favorite boy band, but when one of them literally drags Rupert Pierpont to their room and they tie him up, things get complicated--and when Rupert is killed things go from bad to worse.

As the new lead singer of the band Melbourne, Chelsea has only the summer tour to make the band--and their fans--love her, or it is back to boring high school.

In the summer of 1976, when punk rock is taking over England, Lili finds herself playing bass for a wild new band called Naked, and struggling to sort out complicated relationships with self-destructive band mates.

"Being in a band is Stelle's escape from her mother's depression and the chaotic clutter at home. Although she is able to lose herself playing drums in the basement of her dad's new house, once she leaves, it's like the world is going crazy. One bandmate's parents refuse to acknowledge that he is gay. Her band's only potential lead singer dresses like a vampire. Even her best friend with the 'perfect family' is on edge. It's the confused conversations Stelle has with her grandmother that hold the key to unlocking the unhappiness at the heart of her family"--Back cover.

When a reality television crew follows Nikki Maxwell and her friends around while they record their hit song, the extra attention causes some trouble.

As the band gets ready for its regional competition and the science fair approaches, Holly begins to question her feelings for Owen.