Orchestra Expressions: Student Edition, Book Two - String Bass

String Bass

By Kathleen DeBerry Brungard

Item Number: AP.EMCO2005CD

ISBN 9780757920691. 9x12 inches. English.

Orchestra Expressions provides music educators at all levels with easy-to-use, exciting tools to meet daily classroom challenges and bring new vibrancy and depth to teaching music. The lessons were written based on the National Standards for the Arts in Music -- not retro-fitted to the Standards. The program is music literacy-based and satisfies reading and writing mandates in orchestra class.Unique Features of Orchestra Expressions: "Four-fingers-down" start for every instrument. Separate but simultaneous development of both hands. Bass begins in III position developing early shifting. Orchestra arrangements by Sandra Dackow. Final full orchestra concert piece.

About Orchestra Expressions

Play great songs such as "Over the Rainbow", "Batman", "This Land Is Your Land", and "Star Wars (Main Title)". Listen to and play a variety of styles of music: popular, traditional, classical, folk and patriotic. Read and write music; compose and improvise. Perform in a concert and play for your family and friends. Be a conductor of the orchestra. Learn about composers, such as Antonin Dvorak, Johann Pachelbel, Jacques Offenbach, Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Giuseppe Verdi, George M. Cohan, George Frideric Handel, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Giacomo Puccini, Georges Bizet, Neal Hefti, and John Williams. Discover how music and art are related. Learn about a variety of musical ensembles including string orchestra, full orchestra, mariachi band, steel drum band, dixieland jazz band, rock band, and more. Play music from around the world, including North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa.