The Band Director's Guide To Marching Band Arranging

The Band Director’s Guide To Marching Band Arranging provides all the basic information needed to create musical arrangements for marching bands at all levels. Directors and their staff members can create more expressive musical statements on the field while avoiding many common problems. This Second Edition contains much new material, including the use of sample libraries with scoring applications and the use of electronics with the marching band. Some of the topics covered in this book are: Evaluating the Ensemble, Music Selection, Chord Symbols, Percussion Arranging, Creating Musical Contour, Building Endings, Writing for Younger Players, Using Plugins and Audio Teaching Tools, and Evaluating Your Own Work. Two full arrangements at different difficulty levels are also included. Notes to the buyer: Some Kindle readers and software enable the playback of the embedded musical examples in this book. Other devices and software may do so in the future. An alternative access to these musical excerpts is explained in the text. Also, because of the full-page musical score examples and other images, this book requires a larger reading device. Reading will be somewhat difficult on a smartphone app. Read more