Expressive Musicianship – E-flat Instruments (Alto Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone)

This method presents interpretative suggestions to enhance ensemble musicianship for band directors and students in the following nine areas:

• Rhythm

• Melody and Phrasing
• Dynamics and Balance
• Embellishments
• Articulations and Accents
• Style
• Tempo
• Releases
• Intonation

Each area presents a variety of concepts for musical expressiveness, and there are more than 225 exercises and excerpts to use during warm-ups or when transferring an expressive concept to the band’s current literature.

This method includes:

• Intonation exercises that illustrate how to properly tune a chord

• Scale-based exercises written in the common keys of F, B-flat, and E-flat that can be used as part of a rehearsal warm-up to reinforce expressive concepts
• Band excerpts to illustrate how expressive concepts can be transferred to actual wind band literature
• A key sheet to explore how players’ parts may be edited to increase the quality of musicianship
• More than 40 ideas for increasing the ensemble’s musical potential
• A sample lesson plan and template to illustrate how to transfer knowledge to your current curriculum
• Additional TIPS in the conductor’s score for teaching each concept