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Wind Talk for Woodwinds provides instrumental music teachers, practitioners, and students with a handy, easy-to-use pedagogical resource for woodwind instruments found in school instrumental programs. With thorough coverage of the most common woodwind instruments – flute, oboe, clarinet, saxophone, and bassoon – the book offers the most topical and information necessary for effective teaching. This includes terminology, topics, and concepts associated with each specific instrument, along with teaching suggestions that can be applied in the classroom. Be sure to look to the back of the book for a “Practical Tips” section, which discusses common technical faults and corrections, common problems with sound (as well as their causes and solutions to them), fingering charts, literature lists (study materials, method books, and solos), as well as a list of additional resources relevant to teaching woodwind instruments (articles, websites, audio recordings). Without question, Wind Talk for Woodwinds stands alone as an invaluable resource for woodwinds!
Publisher : Oxford University Press; 1st edition (August 20, 2009)
Language : English
Paperback : 736 pages
ISBN-10 : 0195329252
ISBN-13 : 978-0195329254
Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
Dimensions : 9.21 x 6.14 x 1.5 inches
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Reviewer: Jay W
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A must read for instrumental music teachers and students
Review: This is an outstanding work that I am using as a college textbook for a class on Woodwind Techniques. The information is thorough, accurate, practical and well organized. It goes into enough detail on each woodwind instrument, but not so much that you get bogged down in rhetoric. Congratulations to the authors on publishing a book that has countless uses for teachers at all levels. I just wish something like this was around when I was in college.
Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: If you’re a woodwind tutor, a music educator or a junior band conductor you need this book!
Review: This is an excellent resource for any woodwind tutor that finds him or herself tutoring something other than their main instrument. It could also be useful for music educators and/or new junior/training band conductors who are looking for something to help develop an understanding of the general characteristics of how woodwind instruments ‘behave’ (because, as we all know, in a lot of cases they don’t!!).
Reviewer: Louis C Turudich III
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Amazing
Review: Wow!!!! What a wealth of knowledge. I’m a music instructor and I bought this book based on some of the ratings. I have to say that this book lives up to them. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone looking to get some very detailed information about the woodwind instruments.
Reviewer: Donald Fischer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Five Stars
Review: Excellent book, in excellent condition, delivered as expected. Good work.
Reviewer: Eric Skidmore
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Five Stars
Review: Excellent resource for band directors and doublers!
Reviewer: jan
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Five Stars
Review: good
Reviewer: Band Man
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A Wonderful Resource!
Review: This is a concise and accessible manual for all things relevant to teaching instrumental music. As a middle and high school band director, the visualizations assist both teacher and student to more fully understand abstract concepts. I would HIGHLY recommend this book to any teacher who works with woodwind instruments on a regular basis.
Reviewer: Multi-Interest guy
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Expensive but good reference.
Review: This was the required text for my woodwinds class for my Music Ed Major. It was a typical music text book: Informative, best used for reference not as reading.
Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Firstly, the navigation is very, very poor, with really just six generic headings, including instruments and tips. This is most likely to be used as a reference book, yet there’s no way to get to any other more specific section as the Index pages are not even hyperlinked, and the pagination differs according to the device you’re on, rendering searching for material pointless.There are a very small number of tiny black and white pictures, of no useful purpose. The fingering charts are good when you come across them.Much of the advice isn’t really detailed enough and is often common sense. There’s talk of occasionally oiling the bore of wooden instruments, but no information on what kind of oil or how to achieve this, or how much to use, or how long to wait to dry. The embouchure pictures are too small, more closeups are needed.There’s clearly a lot of knowledge and experience from the authors, but they’ve struggled to organise their information in this book. It has a lot of potential, but they’ll need to sort out navigating sections and headings in the next edition. Make the pictures bigger and add colour. More suggestions are needed to tackle common problems, especially embouchure formation, tonguing and breathing issues.A brave first effort, but badly in need of revision to fulfil its potential as an essential guide for multi instrumentalists and instrumental instructors.
