Reviews for The Band Teacher's Assistant Or Complete And Progressive Band Instructor: Comprising The Rud...

The average rating for The Band Teacher's Assistant Or Complete And Progressive Band Instructor: Comprising The Rud... based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-07-15 00:00:00 Sarah Macadams For my current project, compiling a polyglot, Esperanto-centered fasola tunebook (Sankta Harmonio, July 2015), this is a simply indispensible reference work. It is full of information I need, most of which is well organized. There are some lacks in the indexes, things I wish had been indexed (either items or categories) that were not, and I would have appreciated at least a list of the authors/composers/sources that were deemed too well covered in other literature to need mention here, and a detailed treatment of the underlying tunebooks and whatnot (e.g. Wyeth; Tennessee Harmony; Mercer's Cluster...); also, some sort of index to the various editions (not just Cooper's earliest and latest editions, but that too), giving information on items that are not in the 1991 Denson book, would have been appreciated. So there's definitely room for a more compendious work of this sort. But as far as it goes, it is wonderful. For those just looking to read about Sacred Harp and its antecedents, parts of the book are very interesting reading, but others will feel sort of like reading a phone book.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-03-25 00:00:00 Andrea Ryon Interesting nuggets surrounded by large swaths of dry, research-oriented information. It would be nice to own this as a reference.