Sound Innovations: Ensemble Development for Young Concert Band is a complete curriculum for beginning band students to help them grow as ensemble musicians. The series complements any band method and supplements any performance music. It contains 167 exercises, including more than 100 chorales by some of today's most renowned young band composers. Various exercises at the grade 1/2, 1, and 1 1/2 levels are grouped by key, including: * Long Tones* Passing the Tonic* Pitch Matching* Scale Builders* Interval Builders* Expanding Intervals* Chord Builders* Moving Chord Tones* Diatonic Harmony* Rhythmic Subdivision* 5-Note Scales* Scale Canons (5-, 6-, or 8-Note Scales)* Scale Chorales (5-, 6-, and 8-Note Scales) * ChoralesThe compositions were written by Roland Barrett, Chris Bernotas, Jodie Blackshaw, Matt Conaway, Ralph Ford, Tyler S. Grant, Rob Grice, John O'Reilly, Robert Sheldon, Todd Stalter, Randall Standridge, Michael Story, and Scott Watson. Whether your students are progressing through exercises to better their technical facility, or improving their musicianship with beautiful chorales, we are confident your performers will be excited, motivated, and inspired by using Sound Innovations: Ensemble Development for Young Concert Band. / Baryton

An Introduction to Repertoire. This series of 5 book/audio packs is an introduction to art song in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. Each volume has a different song list, and includes 30 selections in appropriate keys. Beyond art song, each collection includes two carefully chosen opera arias, an oratorio aria, and an operetta aria by Gilbert and Sullivan. Recordings of recitation, diction lessons and piano accompaniments are accessed online via a unique code included in each book, and can be downloaded or streamed. Contents: ANONYMOUS: Have you seen but a white lily grow' · BELLINI: Vaga luna, che inargenti · BRAHMS: Sonntag · DONAUDY: O del mio amato ben · DOWLAND: Come again, sweet love · FALCONIERI: Bella porta di rubini · DE FALLA: Asturiana · FAURE: Lydia · Le secret · GOUNOD: O ma belle rebelle · MACDOWELL: The Sea · MARTINI: Plaisir d'amour · MENDELSSOHN: For the mountains shall depart · MOZART: Abendempfindung · Non siate ritrosi · Der Vogelfanger bin ich ja · OBRADORS: La mi sola, Laureola · PURCELL: I'll sail upon the Dog Star · If music be the food of love · QUILTER: Weep you no more · Now sleeps the crimson petal · Come away, death · ROSA: Vado ben spesso cangiando loco · SCHUBERT: Die Forelle · Wandrers Nachtlied II · SCHUMANN: Die beiden Grenadiere · Widmung · SULLIVAN: I Am a Pirate King · VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Linden Lea · The Vagabond