Standard of Excellence Book 3 (Score)
by Bruce Pearson
Concert Band Methods - Sheet Music

Band concert band - Grade 3

SKU: KJ.W23F

Composed by Bruce Pearson. Concert Band Method. Standard of Excellence Comprehensive Band Method. Band, Methods. Score. 656 pages. Neil A. Kjos Music Company #W23F. Published by Neil A. Kjos Music Company (KJ.W23F).

ISBN 9780849759741. 9 x 12 inches.

Standard of Excellence Book 3 is a continuation of the strong performance-centered curriculum of Books 1 and 2. It is also an intermediate level band method that introduces students to Western Music History. Students play music from the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic periods and 20th Century; they learn performance and technical skills within the appropriate historical context. Students are given a complete musical and historical education while advancing toward high levels of musical performance on their individual instruments.

Standard of Excellence Book 3 is a continuation of the strong performance-centered curriculum of Books 1 and 2. It is also an intermediate level band method that introduces students to Western Music History. Students play music from the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic periods and 20th Century; they learn performance and technical skills within the appropriate historical context. Students are given a complete musical and historical education while advancing toward high levels of musical performance on their individual instruments. • Solid reinforcement of major and minor key signatures. • Technique development exercises including scales and a wide variety of scale-related studies. • Advanced rhythms and time signature studies • Detailed trill fingering charts and extended range fingering charts. • Twelve full band arrangements including concert length arrangements from historic periods.

About Standard of Excellence Comprehensive Band Method

The Standard of Excellence Comprehensive Band Method Books combine a strong performance-centered approach with music theory, music history, ear training, listening composition, improvisation, and interdisciplinary and multicultural studies. The result is the most complete band method available anywhere.

Full color drawings and color-coding of important text and music motivate and inform. Three starting systems help ensure positive results in any beginning situation. FOR ... ONLY exercises (i.e. FOR FLUTES ONLY) offer idiomatic solutions to the unique challenges of each instrument. Excellerators (advanced supplemental exercises) reinforce and enrich performance basics. Achievement Lines and GO FOR EXCELLENCE! test lines ensure objective assessment of students' accomplishments. A built-in reward system motivates students and encourages musical growth. Expanded 48 page part books (instead of the usual 32 pages) provide added reinforcement of musical skills. 600-plus page full Conductor Scores contain Objectives for every line of music, Director tips, extended reference articles, duplicable worksheets and quizzes, and theory, listening, composing, improvisation, geography, foreign language, history, and other interdisciplinary Activities for Excellence.