school music

A guide to creating a viable, participatory music program for middle school students that offers strategies and lessons that meet the nine National Standards for Music Education.

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].

Contains fifty reproducible paper-and-pencil activities designed to help students in grades three to nine learn about great composers and their music, and includes a teacher's guide and answer keys.