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Teaching Tuba Students To Be Complete Musicians, Brandon E. Cummings
Teaching Tuba Students To Be Complete Musicians, Brandon E. Cummings
Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects
The goal of music educators is to develop complete musicians who successfully learn and perform all musical concepts. One of the limitations of the band classroom is that performers are required to play a part that is specifically written with the needs of the ensemble in mind, and not the needs of the developing musician. These limitations can be seen in the bass instruments of a band which typically play the harmony or bass-line. While the bass-line and harmony are integral portions of the music, they do not often progress as far as other instrumental parts with respect to the …