TEACHER PREVIEW GUIDE ENSEMBLE DEVELOPMENT. Chorales and Warm-up Exercises for Tone, Technique, and Rhythm INTERMEDIATE CONCERT BAND

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1 BAND ENSEMBLE DEVELOMEN Chorales and Warm-up Exercises for one, echnique, and Rhythm INERMEDIAE CONCER BAND eter BOONSHA Chris BERNOAS Chorales by Roland Barrett Andre Boysen Ralph ord Rossano Galante Robert Sheldon odd Stalter Randall Standridge Michael Story EACHER REVIEW GIDE

ENSEMBLE DEVELOMEN Chorales and Warm-up Exercises for one, echnique, and Rhythm INERMEDIAE CONCER BAND Sound Innovations: Ensemble Development is a valuable resource for helping your students gro in

An assortment of exercises are grouped by key and presented in a variety of intermediate difficulty levels.

You ill notice that many exercises and chorales are clearly marked ith dynamics, articulations, style, and tempo for students to practice those aspects of performance.

2 ENSEMBLE DEVELOMEN Chorales and Warm-up Exercises for one, echnique, and Rhythm INERMEDIAE CONCER BAND Sound Innovations: Ensemble Development is a valuable resource for helping your students gro in their understanding and abilities as ensemble musicians. It contains exercises, including more than 70 chorales by some of today s most renoned concert band composers. An assortment of exercises are grouped by key and presented in a variety of intermediate difficulty levels. Where possible, several exercises in the same category are provided to allo variety, hile accomplishing the goals of that specific type of exercise. You ill notice that many exercises and chorales are clearly marked ith dynamics, articulations, style, and tempo for students to practice those aspects of performance. Other exercises are intentionally left flexible for the teacher to determine ho best to use them in facilitating the goals and addressing the needs of their ensemble. Whether your students are progressing through exercises to better their technical facility, or challenging their musicianship ith beautiful chorales, this book can be used after any band method or as a supplement to performance music. SI Ensemble Development Overvie and Concepts one Quality Breathing Long ones Ensemble and Section Balance Blend Intonation Scales (Maor, Chromatic, Natural, Harmonic, and Melodic Minor) echnical acility lexibility Arpeggios Intervals Harmonic rogressions Rhythm Rhythmic Subdivision Meter hrasing Articulation Dynamics Expression and Style Études Integrated ercussion Reinforcement of Rudiments Harmonized Scale Chorales Chorales by Roland Barrett Chris Bernotas Andre Boysen Ralph ord Rossano Galante Robert Sheldon odd Stalter Randall Standridge Michael Story

3 A. B. ASSING HE ONIC 7 8 assing the onic hese exercises help students concentrate on improving their individual characteristic tone and tuning skills as they ork to achieve ensemble balance, blend, and intonation. Each line is designed to help students become accustomed to the tonality of the key, develop a cohesive ensemble sound, and ork toard stabilizing the pitch as they move the tonic note through various sections of the band. BALANCE AND INONAION: LAYERED NING b 7 8 b b b A. B. b b b R R R R ith mallets L L L L R R L L R u y L L L b L R R R R L L R R L u y b, b,, Breathing and Long ones hese exercises help foster deep, full breaths using a variety of approaches and techniques such as exhalation, metered breathing, or quick, intense breaths. hrough the use of long tones, interspersed ith humming and/or singing, students can focus on improving air capacity, breath support, resistance, and tone quality, as ell as the essential ability to internalize pitch. b b b b b b u,,,, u

4 Scales Students can ork toard mastering the maor scale for a variety of keys in their most common rhythmic forms. Maor Scale 0 MAOR SCALE Natural Minor Scale NARAL MINOR SCALE Harmonic and Melodic Minor Scales HARMONIC AND MELODIC MINOR SCALES harmonic minor scale melodic minor scale N N N N Scale attern hese exercises are designed to develop dexterity, facility, confidence, and familiarity ith the scale of each key by using a number of different patterns, each containing a variety of rhythms, meters, and articulations. SCALE AERN.. Changing Scale Rhythm hrough these exercises, students can practice playing the scale for the specified key in a challenging and unpredictable rhythmic context. CHANGING SCALE RHYHM.. Chromatic Scale A chromatic scale, starting on the tonic of the specified key, ill help students develop technical proficiency and facility. CHROMAIC SCALE b CH. n CH. b CH. b b b b CH. b

5 8 70 LEXIBILIY AREGGIOS.. INERVALS. lexibility lexibility exercises are intended to help students reinforce good embouchure habits and muscle development, as ell as breath support, intensity of airstream, and intonation. Arpeggios Various patterns of arpeggios are included to help students develop technical proficiency, as ell as explore melodic and harmonic aspects in each key. Intervals A variety of interval studies are presented to aid students in developing their technique, intonation, and tone quality, as ell as their ability to internalize pitch. BALANCE AND INONAION: EREC INERVALS 7 8 A. B. Balance and Intonation: erfect Intervals In these exercises, the ensemble begins by playing in unison, before some of the players move to create a perfect fifth, then return to the starting unison pitch. olloing this pattern, students can focus on tuning the perfect intervals of a unison, fourth, fifth, and octave. b ith mallets Soft mallets

6 BALANCE AND INONAION: DIAONIC HARMONY b. b. b. b. b n Balance and Intonation: Diatonic Harmony By having students move beteen perfect intervals and diatonic triads, these exercises ill foster the skills of vertical and horizontal tuning, balance, blend, and internalizing pitch, as ell as better understanding common cadences and harmonic progressions. A B. b b BALANCE AND INONAION: AMILY BALANCE b. b.. b. b A b. b.... B.... n. n.... b. Cabasa b b Balance and Intonation: amily Balance amily Balance exercises are designed to focus on various aspects of ensemble, family and section balance, as ell as intonation, pitch tendencies, listening, and blending. ith stick y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y u

7 7 A. BALANCE AND INONAION: LAYERED NING 7 8 Balance and Intonation: Layered uning In these exercises, intervals and triads are built by gradually adding one member of an interval or triad at a time, alloing students to focus on tuning vertical sonorities in a variety of contexts. With a similar focus, students ill also gradually subtract members of vertical sonorities, one member at a time. B. BALANCE AND INONAION: MOVING CHORD ONES b A. b ith mallets (Sns. off) B. b b b Balance and Intonation: Moving Chord ones hese exercises begin ith each part playing one of the three notes of a triad. Subsequent measures have each part cycle through the other to notes of that triad, before arriving back to the original pitch. b Gong 7

8 9 BALANCE AND INONAION: SHIING CHORD QALIIES Balance and Intonation: b b b b N N b N 7 b b 8 b b b b 9 b b b 0 Shifting Chord Qualities hese exercises begin ith the ensemble playing a maor triad, then move to a minor triad and a diminished triad. Cycling through these chord qualities ill help foster horizontal and vertical tuning, as ell as balance, blend, and internalizing pitch. A. N B. N N N b b EXANDING N INERVALS: DOWNWARD IN RIADS N n A b N N n A b b N b b N n A b b b b N N B. A. b b b b b b b b b N N N b n b b b b b N b b b (open) ith stick (closed) (open) (closed) (open) b b (closed) (open) b b (closed) b N b n N (open) b (closed) N b b b b N N N N Expanding Intervals: Donard in riads hese exercises are presented ith the expanding intervals moving donard and upard, as ell as in parallel octaves, fifths, and thirds, to develop the skills of tuning horizontally as ell as vertically hile attending to balance, blend, and intonation. n ith mallets y y A N b b b y y n y y b A b b b y y y y une: Bb, 8

9 Rhythm hese exercises focus on various aspects of rhythm and meter, providing material that ill allo students to practice, revie, and challenge their skills. hey also provide excellent practice in sight-reading. 0 A. B. RHYHMIC SBDIVISION b y. y y. y y. y y. y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y.... RHYHM MEER b (+) Rhythmic Subdivision hese exercises are designed to help students understand and internalize rhythmic subdivision. While one part of the ensemble performs music containing common rhythmic patterns, the other part of the ensemble performs the supporting subdivision. Meter Students can explore these ne meters in straightforard exercises, hich are designed to introduce them ith limited rhythmic challenges.. hrasing hese exercises provide students an opportunity to develop their sense of individual and ensemble phrasing, as ell as practice here they should breathe and not breathe, in a variety of musical examples. HRASING.,. 9

10 ARICLAION > > > > > ß ß v v Articulation hese exercises allo students to practice performing, controlling, changing, and contrasting a variety of articulations in many contexts. 7 DYNAMICS p ƒ sub. p f p Dynamics Students ill further develop their abilities to perform and control dynamic levels hile practicing sudden changes, gradual changes, extremes, and nuances of volume. 8 EDE enderly b., n.b.. f.,., Etude hese short studies reinforce various aspects of individual and ensemble performance hile providing the challenge of combining those concepts in a variety of ays. SCALE CHORALE Sloly b Chris M. Bernotas Scale b b b b b N b A. B. b b b b b b N N Scale Chorale hese chorales are harmonized scales of specified keys. Each student s part has to lines: the top line (A), the scale, and the bottom line (B), their part in the chorale. Directors can choose a single student, a section, a family, or any other combination of instrumentalists to play the scale, hile the rest of the ensemble plays the chorale setting. b b b N b b b N b b (Sns. off) ri. b une: Bb, Eb 0

11 A. B. CHORALE Andante ( = 88) b.... ith stick y! y! y!. y y! y!! y y ri. une:, Bb, Eb 9 Chris M. Bernotas rit N... N N N... N N N N.. y! y y! y y!. y y! y!! CHANGING MEERS: AND 8 Chorale A variety of chorales, ritten by some of the finest composers of music for concert band, provide opportunities for students to develop the essential skills of tone production, blend, balance, intonation, phrasing, dynamics, articulation, style, and musical expression. Advancing Rhythm and Meter his section provides student exercises using more challenging rhythms and meters, exploring advanced rhythmic patterns in meters, exploring advanced eighth-note triplet patterns, and quarter-note triplets. Also included are basic presentations of,,,, and meter, and examples of changing meter from to and to. ( 8 = ) 8 8. Keys Included Keys are introduced in the folloing order: Concert Bb Maor, G Minor, Eb Maor, C Minor, Maor, D Minor, Ab Maor, Minor, Db Maor, Bb Minor, C Maor, A Minor, G Maor, and E Minor. here is special emphasis on the keys most commonly used in intermediate band literature. ercussion ercussion parts are provided for battery instruments, accessories, mallets, and timpani, offering the percussion section an opportunity to perform as members of the ensemble ith parts integrated into every exercise in the book.

12 EXANDING INERVALS: DOWNWARD IN RIADS n A b N n A N n A N b N N A. N b B. b n b b N N b b n b N b b N N N N n A b N n A b b b b b b ith mallets y y y y y y y y y y une: Bb,

13 A. B. CHORALE Andante ( = 88) b.... ith stick y! y! y!. y y! y!! y y ri. une:, Bb, Eb y y y y!! N N N N N. y!. y 7. N. N. rit. N. y! y! Chris M. Bernotas 8!

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