Wind lessons with "Addizio!"
The teaching aid "Addizio!" by Jörg Sommerfeld offers an enormous wealth of materials and variations. Internal differentiation in particular is supported.
Addizio! is a very comprehensive teaching and instructional work for working with mixed wind ensembles, wind classes or children's wind orchestras. Saxophonist Jörg Sommerfeld has incorporated his many years of experience into this impressive, tried-and-tested work, which consists of a teacher's manual and student booklets for flute, clarinet, alto and tenor saxophone, horn, trumpet, trombone, euphonium and tuba. Additional parts for percussion, keyboard, guitar, violin and piano are available on an enclosed CD-ROM.
The teacher's handbook contains a 60-page introduction and over 100 pages of scores with around 50 pieces of increasing difficulty. The introduction offers a detailed explanation of the teaching concept and possible instrumentations, tips on working with groups and information on the instruments; it also provides an introduction to an internally differentiated and activity-oriented methodology as well as to a competence-oriented (instrumental) pedagogy (as provided for in Curriculum 21, for example). The author places great emphasis on the possibility of internal differentiation. The teaching material starts at the beginning of instrumental playing with four notes and is designed as a progressive course. At the same time, however, additional parts with increased and decreased levels of difficulty are offered for the individual pieces. The teaching material can therefore be used in wind classes, in uniform or mixed wind ensembles from the beginning or in wind ensembles with different levels of players.
The sets include pieces from different genres. There are many children's songs alongside chorales, folk, pop or rock songs, jazz pieces, classical themes, Latin and jazz. In contrast to the teacher's booklet, which is full of explanations, the student booklets are kept very simple. They have an attractive, large sheet music image and contain hardly any text. For newly introduced notes, the fingering is explained directly in the piece. All the pieces are printed as polyphonic scores so that the parts can be distributed ad hoc.
Extensive additional material added Addizio!All pieces can be listened to on Youtube, including the illustrated music text. Fingering charts, additional parts and further scores are available as PDF files on the enclosed CD-ROM. The author also provides the fingering patterns for the woodwind instruments as text fonts for notation programs and the simplified parts of all pieces directly as Sibelius or XML files. It is a pity that the fingerings for clarinet are only available for the German system, both in the booklet and in the text fonts.
Jörg Sommerfeld: Addizio! Teaching wind instruments in classes, groups and ensembles; teacher's manual BV 449, € 49.90; student editions EB 8858-8865, € 14.90 each; Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 2016
