The Complete Marching Band Resource Manual is the definitive guide to the intricate art of directing college and high school marching bands. Supplemented with musical arrangements, warm-up exercises, and over a hundred drill charts, this manual presents both the fundamentals and the advanced techniques that are essential for successful marching band leadership. The materials in this volume cover every stage of musical direction and instruction, from selecting music and choreographing movements to improving student memorization and endurance to the creation of striking visual configurations through uniform and auxiliary units.
Now in its third edition, The Complete Marching Band Resource Manual has been thoroughly updated to reflect new standards for drill design, charting, and musical arrangement. Offering a fresh approach to the essentials of good marching band design, this comprehensive resource shows both veteran and novice band directors how to prepare students to perform seamless and sophisticated musical formations.
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Preface
The contemporary marching band in the United States has developed into an ensemble separate from the athletic contests and military shows that fostered it. Although it still uses sporting events as a stage for performance, the marching band has developed an audience and purpose all its own.
The marching band director must be a very versatile teacher and musician, able to arrange music, develop design concepts that create visual form over a ten-minute time span, choose uniforms and props, and teach, motivate, and control large groups of enthusiastic young people. This book can serve as a guide for teaching those concepts and administering a successful marching band program. This third edition includes updated sections on all aspects of drill design, charting, and music arranging. Each chapter includes some new information and some material that has been updated to address recent developments in marching band. For example, at the time of publication of the second edition of the text (2003), Chapter 2, "Making Design Concepts Work," focused on types of marching drill forms. At that time forms that were produced on the field were more important than the movement between those forms. Since that time, marching band designers have focused at least as much, if not more, on the movement between forms as they do the forms themselves. To address this, the information in Chapter 2 has been updated—not by deleting information about forms but by adding more information on movement and refocusing the chapter around movement. A further example can be given from Chapter 4, "Arranging the Music." In the second edition this chapter focused on types of scoring and the fitting together of four pieces of music into an overall marching show. Today, it is rare for a band to use four pieces of separate music. Instead, designers create shows that flow seamlessly from one work to another to create a marching show with few stops that is much less segmented in nature. This shift in design caused the authors to refocus the arranging chapter to address current methods. The third edition also includes new material on the percussion section and color guard, and new drill designs and ideas.
In addition to these examples, the following is a list of new material and changes to the third edition.
The authors wish to express gratitude to Mesa Music Publishers of Carlsbad, California, for permission to reprint Alcalde and Shenandoah and to Pygraphics, Inc. for the use of their software Pyware 3D Professional in the creation of all drill charts in the third edition.
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