While there are no absolute rules concerning expressive playing and phrasing, this innovative series clearly lays out basic concepts that help players become good musicians. The series focuses on the natural relationship between meter, rhythm, contour, tonality, style and historical period, and guides the player to a greater understanding of factors that can improve performance. This one of a kind text, written for teachers, woodwind, brass and percussion players, will help stimulate and cultiva...

• Audio Cd Tracks
• Acknowlegments and Introduction
• Imagery and Expressive Phrasing
• The Mechanics of Expressive Playing and Application
• Music Notation and Expressive Phrasing
• Focus on the Performance Goal
• How to Use the text
• Recorded Examples
• On Line Supplementary Examples
• Supporting Breathing and Ensemble Tuning
• Meter and Expressive Phrasing
• Applying Phrasing Groupings to Technical Exercises
• Phrasing Within or over a subdivided Pulse
• Articulation
• Tones of Short Duratio...