The Instrumental music director's guide to comprehensive program development
Michael PAGLIARO

The Instrumental Music Director’s Guide to Comprehensive Program Development gives practical solutions to the many issues that confront music directors. The topics addressed include:

·A review of tests which can be used to develop an all-inclusive student profile identifying strengths and weaknesses as a prologue to preparing individualized curricula
·A discussion of the “informed approach” predicated on understanding relationships among music, logical deduction, and the acoustic sciences thereby accelerating the learning process in music, increasing the knowledge base, and developing cognitive skills that can be applied to other studies
·A measuring process used to accurately calculate the size of a beginning student in relation to the size of the selected instrument to ensure the two will be compatible
·A procedure for introducing students to the many different instruments
·The protocol for developing a symbiotic dealer/teacher relationship that will ensure a smooth running program fully equipped throughout the year
·Purchasing, renting, and caring for instruments and all administrative tasks which are the backbone of a successful school instrumental music program

Michael J. Pagliaro, ScD, retired professor, founder and CEO Emeritus in Counsel of a musical instrument company, and Director of Research and Development for a music research laboratory, is certified by the State of New York as Teacher of Music, Secondary School Principal, Supervisor of Secondary Education, and by the City of New York as Teacher of Orchestral Music. An authority in musical instrument technology, Dr. Pagliaro invented four musical instrument products which are sold worldwide, is author of Everything You Should Know about Musical Instruments (Columbia Pacific University Press, 1992); The Violin: How It Works (Ardsley Press, 2002), The Flute: How It Works (Ardsley Press, 2003); The Violin Workbook (Ardsley Press, 2004) The Musical Instrument Desk Reference (Scarecrow Press, 2012); and The String Instrument Owner's Handbook (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014).