Band Expressions: Baritone (B.C.) w/ CD

Band Expressions™ takes students' musical knowledge to new heights by bringing the immediacy and dynamics of the real world into the music classroom. Previously learned material is reinforced and given added depth, dimension, and meaning when it is viewed in the context of history, art and culture, and students' own everyday experiences. Unique Elements * Continued reinforcement of concert pitch and sight-reading * Carefully sequenced ear-training exercises, including rhythmic and melodic dictation * Eighth-2 sixteenth, 2 sixteenth-eighth, dotted eighth-sixteenth, sixteenth-dotted eighth, eighth note triplet, and eighth-quarter-eighth rhythms * Introduction and reinforcement of 6/4, 2/2, 3/2, 4/2, cut time, 4/8, 6/8, 3/8, 9/8, 12/8, 3/2, simple and compound, and mixed meters * In-depth studies in tuning and intonation * Units focusing on Hispanic, Oriental, and African-American cultures * Five pieces of fine art for teaching musical concepts and about various cultures * Composer Portraits, biographies and pictures, of Henry Fillmore, Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Clare Grundman, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Scott Joplin, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and Igor Stravinsky * 22 pop, rock, and jazz songs to motivate students to practice and perform * Ten full band pieces by Robert W. Smith and Michael Story.