Brass Techniques and Pedagogy is intended to serve as a guide for the band music educator. The text is written with the non-brass playing music education student in mind and focuses on developing beginning levels of brass technique alongside a more expansive understanding of brass fundamentals and pedagogy. While a basic level of technical proficiency will be developed throughout this text, the ability to teach beginning to intermediate brass players effectively with sound pedagogy is the primary purpose of this text.

Table of Contents:

I. General Brass Techniques and Pedagogies
Prelude: Introduction to Brass Techniques and Pedagogy
1. A Brief History of Brass Instruments
2. Getting Started with Posture, Breathing, and Embouchure
3. Tone Production Fundamentals on the Mouthpiece
4. Brass Acoustics
5. Tone Production Fundamentals on Brass Instruments
6. Pitch and Intonation
7. Articulation on Brass Instruments
8. Instrument Care
9. Advanced Techniques

II. Instrument Specific Techniques and Pedagogies
10. The Trumpet
11. The Horn
12. The Trombone
13. The Euphonium
14. The Tuba

III. Guided Practice Lessons
15. Guided Practice Lesson 1.1
Guided Practice Lesson 1.2
Guided Practice Lesson 1.3
16. Guided Practice Lesson 1.4
17. Guided Practice Lesson 1.5
18. Guided Practice Lesson 1.6
19. Guided Practice Lesson 2.1
20. Guided Practice Lesson 2.2
21. Guided Practice Lesson 2.3
22. Guided Practice Lesson 2.4
23. Guided Practice Lesson 2.5

IV. Resources and Activities
Fingering Charts
Practice Materials
Recommended Equipment
Important Brass Terminology
24. Additional Resources

This open e-book is the result of a project funded by a University of Edinburgh Student Experience Grant, Open e-Textbooks for access to music education. The project was a collaboration between Open Educational Resources Service, and staff and student interns from the Reid School of Music. As a proof-of-concept endeavour, the project aimed to explore how effectively we could convert existing course content into convenient and reusable open formats suitable for use by staff and students both within and beyond the University. The resulting e-book presents open licensed educational materials that deal with the building blocks of musical stave (sometimes known as staff) notation, a language designed to communicate about musical ideas which is in use around the world. The resources in this e-book include video lectures and their transcripts, as well as supporting text explanations, examples and illustrations. The materials introduce topics such as the organisation of discrete pitches into scales and intervals, and temporal organisation of musical sounds as duration, in rhythm and metre. These rudiments are presented through an introduction to the elements of five-line stave notation, and through critical discussion of the advantages and limitations served by notational systems in the representation and analysis of musical sounds. This serves as the basis of further explanations, to illustrate musical concepts including key, time signature, harmonisation, cadence and modulation. We anticipate that subsequent versions of this e-book will update and develop the contents and presentation of the materials, following the success of this student-led collaboration.

Table of Contents
Preface
Topic 0 Music theory in critical and global context
Topic 1 Musical notes, scales, and the rudiments of notation
Topic 2 Tonal music language - concepts and theory
Topic 3 Musical Time and Rhythm
Topic 4 More on Chords
Topic 5 Music theory code-breaking reference guide
Topic 6 Chord functions in practice

This course is designed to introduce students to the materials, methods, and current trends in music teaching at the elementary level, AS WELL AS learn how to locate, assess, use, and cite Open Educational Resources appropriate for elementary music.  

Vocal Techniques, the course title used at many institutions, is essentially a voice class for instrumentalists, and is a required course for instrumental music education majors seeking all-level certification. Students take at least one Vocal Techniques course to learn proper singing technique along with basic pedagogy and can include teaching techniques as they apply to adolescent singers. The focus of the course is the development of the individual singing voice. This includes breathing, tone production, articulation, musicality and textual expression and understanding. Students also develop confidence in front of groups, improve their general vocal quality, and learn that a healthy voice serves them well in the general and performance classroom.

Access also available here: https://newprairiepress.org/ebooks/25/

Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 Why are you here?
Chapter 2 Healthy Singing
Chapter 3 Motivation
Chapter 4 Learning and Performing Vocal Music
Chapter 5 Respiration
Chapter 6 Phonation
Chapter 7 Voice Range
Chapter 8 Resonance
Chapter 9 Articulation
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