TY - BOOK AU - GALE Bruce TI - The band director's handbook: a guide for college and secondary school music directors in Southeast Asia SN - 1901919358 (pbk.): PY - 2001/// CY - London PB - ASEAN Academic Press KW - BAND MUSIC KW - BRASS BANDS KW - PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS KW - WIND INSTRUMENTS N2 - Although written for music directors in schools and colleges this is a comprehensive single volume guide to all aspects of band management. Covers brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments and deals with physics of sound instrumnets, selecting mouthpieces, playing techniques, conducting, creating a mature sound, and writing and arranging for transcription. Well illustrated with diagrams. Includes a glossary, sources of wind band music worldwide, dealing with common problems, a bibliography and index ER -