Expressive Musicianship – Teacher’s Manual – Jagow

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

1. Rhythm
2. Melody and Phrasing
3. Dynamics and Balance
4. Embellishments
5. Articulations and Accents
6. Style
7. Tempo
8. Releases
9. 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

This method has a conductor’s edition and 6 student books:

1. C instruments: Flute, Oboe, Keyboard Percussion
   (no lower than F4 for Flute, and no higher than C6 for Oboe)
2. B-flat instruments: Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone, Trumpet, Baritone T.C.
   (no lower than D4 for Tenor Saxophone, and no higher than E5 for Trumpet)
3. E-flat instruments: Alto Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone
   (no lower than D4 and no higher than C6 for Alto and Baritone Saxophones)
4. F instruments: Horn
   (no lower than B-flat3 and no higher than E5 for Horn)
5. Bass Clef instruments: Trombone, Baritone B.C., Bassoon
   (no higher than D4 and no lower than B-flat2)
6. Bass Clef instruments: Tuba
   (no higher than D3 and no lower than B-flat1)