Sound Innovations for Concert Band -- Ensemble Development for Young Concert Band: Chorales and Warm-Up Exercises for Tone, Technique, and Rhythm Alt Boonshaft PeterPaperback

Sound Innovations: Ensemble Development for Young Concert Band is a complete curriculum for beginning band students to help them grow as ensemble musicians. It contains 167 exercises, including more than 100 chorales by some of today's most renowned young band composers. The series complements any band method and supplements any performance music.

Various exercises at the grade 1/2, 1, and 1 1/2 levels are grouped by key, including:Long TonesPassing the TonicPitch MatchingScale BuildersInterval BuildersExpanding IntervalsChord BuildersMoving Chord TonesDiatonic HarmonyRhythmic Subdivision5-Note ScalesScale Canons (5-, 6-, or 8-Note Scales)Scale Chorales (5-, 6-, and 8-Note Scales)Chorales.The compositions were written by Roland Barrett, Chris Bernotas, Jodie Blackshaw, Matt Conaway,