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 ingering charts. • Twelve full band arrangements including concert length arrangements from historic periods.

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