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Music education of the future

A new school year is about to begin and a large group of children approach the school building to begin the First Grade. They arrive with…

Feb 10, 2020

Music education of the future

Feb 10, 2020

Maxime's Music

On the origin of dynamic markings

The Maxime Principle

Feb 10, 2020

On the origin of dynamic markings

Feb 10, 2020

Maxime's Music

On the difficulty of staying awake

We have all seen audience members sleeping during musical performances. Classical music, in particular, can be very soothing after a hard…

Feb 10, 2020

On the difficulty of staying awake

Feb 10, 2020

Maxime's Music

Why do conductors feel they must talk to the audience?

I recently heard a performance of the Schönberg Theme and Variations for band which was preceded by the conductor describing briefly for…

Feb 10, 2020

Why do conductors feel they must talk to the audience?

Feb 10, 2020

Maxime's Music

On seating plan acoustics

The five principles for achieving a good sound from a concert band

Feb 10, 2020

On seating plan acoustics

Feb 10, 2020

Maxime's Music

What shall we do with marches?

I am old enough to remember a time when marches were the linchpins of band concerts. The epitome of that tradition came in the concerts of…

Feb 10, 2020

What shall we do with marches?

Feb 10, 2020

Maxime's Music

Tenuto and fermata

Rebels against the tyranny of notation

Feb 9, 2020

Tenuto and fermata

Feb 9, 2020

Maxime's Music

Our fatal error in commissioning

The tradition of commissioning compositions from composers is laudable in many ways, particularly in the cases of interesting composers…

Feb 9, 2020

Our fatal error in commissioning

Feb 9, 2020

Maxime's Music

Where is the value in conducting clinics?

Why do our conducting clinics devote so much time to things which no great conductor of the past ever gave a moment’s thought to?

Feb 9, 2020

Where is the value in conducting clinics?

Feb 9, 2020

Maxime's Music

Band music from a historical perspective

There is a vast body of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature that exists for large wind ensemble or wind band. Only a few random…

Feb 9, 2020

Band music from a historical perspective

Feb 9, 2020

Maxime's Music

Maxime's Music

Craig Dabelstein is a music editor, teacher, the owner of Maxime’s Music (concertbandmusicstore.com), and an advocate for music education.

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