Principles of Musical Performance: Improve your ensemble and get the performance results you want (The Director's Guide Book 1)

A potential standard for every music program, "Principles of Musical Performance" is a must-have book for any music director. This classic book covers basic foundations of music that musicians need to know as well as more advanced laws that will shape good players into great ones.



Jim Matthews is a veteran band director whose expert advice will help any music program. By applying each of the laws provided in this book into your everyday teaching, your students will make music that sounds alive and colorful. As stated in the introduction of the book, the Principles of Music "are simply good guidelines from which to begin to create music!"