THE CREATIVE DIRECTOR:CONDUCTOR, TEACHER, LEADER..................$24.95
by Edward S. Lisk
ISBN 1-57463-079-2
Conducting-listening skills, harmonic and melodic content, ensemble sonority and expressive conducting are only a few of the insightful topics included in Ed Lisk's latest publication. The complexities of instrumental music as related to Howard Gardner's Theories of Multiple Intelligences are thoroughly discussed and provide an overwhelming foundation for the support of music in the schools. From philosophy to practicality, this book has it all!
"...The love shown for teaching and music making demonstrated by Edward S. Lisk is truly a dynamic force in music education. This book will only add to the momentum of a creative life’s work so lovingly shared."
Michael Haithcock
Director of Bands, University of Michigan
THE CREATIVE DIRECTOR BEGINNING & INTERMEDIATE LEVELS...................$24.95
by Edward S. Lisk
Internationally acclaimed as one of today's leading music educators, Ed
Lisk's Creative Director series provides a new approach to band performance.
In this volume, Lisk presents beginning and intermediate level band directors
with exciting teaching strategies to use with today's band methods. Using a
natural learning sequence, these concepts provide a foundation for achieving
State and National Music Standards helping students to:
- Play with beautiful tone quality
- Develop technical skills
- Understand and play rhythms correctly
- Play in tune and maintain a consistent pitch center
- Develop a knowledge of scales that can be applied to improvisation
- Play with expression
- Make positive decisions about balance, blend and intonation
- Play with imagination, interpretation and correct style
- Become an effective (contributing) ensemble member
Alternative Rehearsal Techniques..................$32.95
A new dimension in band performance! Improve rehearsal efficiency
througbh a more effective learning environment with access to
the students' fullest musical potential. Provides new concepts,
graphic illustrations and instructional porocedures to enhance
and accelerate student skills. Every student becomes totally
involved!
"...I introduce to you a book that will instruct you,
that will stimulate your pedogagy and that will open new concepts
for your rehearsal techniques."
With a foreword by Mark Camphouse, Intangibles deals with the instructional
techniques of teaching expression, ensemble interpretation, characteristic
performance, musical identity, and the decision making process surrounding
the subtle details of artistic response.
"It is sensitively powerful and powerfully sensitive. Above all it is a
bold reminder of the responsibility of every teacher to the art of human
development."
This outstanding "one-of-a-kind" text was designed to
assist the conductor in achieving a personal interpretation of
music.
"At last...the wind band world has a concise and logical
guide to the technical and, most importantly, the creative aspects
of score study."
THE CREATIVE DIRECTOR
Student Supplement Book 1.............................$8.95
Student Supplement Book 2.............................$8.95
Video (VHS)................................................$39.95
Video (DVD)................................................$39.95
Teaching Accessories.................................$12.95
by Edward S. Lisk
W. Francis McBeth
INTANGIBLES OF MUSICAL PERFORMANCE....................$24.95
by Edward S. Lisk
Dr. Tim Lautzenheiser
GUIDE TO SCORE STUDY
for the Wind Band Conductor..........................$29.95
by Frank Battisti and Robert Garofalo
Craig Kirchoff