As an ensemble director, your literature selections define your success. No matter your repertoire choices, you want a practice app for your students with a library as vast and varied as the music you have programmed. SmartMusic’s unparalleled library of interactive and digital sheet music contains tens of thousands of titles spanning every instrument, ensemble type, skill level, and style. With music from more than 130 publishers, you’ll find your favorite composers, method books, and performance materials ready to assign in SmartMusic’s game-changing practice app. But numbers don’t tell the whole story. Take a deep dive through this collection of favorites and find resources to keep your students engaged and prepared.
Method Books
Whether you are teaching with Sound Innovations, Essential Elements, Measures of Success, Standard of Excellence, The Art IN Sight Reading, Suzuki, Sing at First Sight, Habits of a Successful Musician, First Place for Jazz, or any of hundreds of popular method books, you’ll find that each exercise and accompaniment track is available for use with SmartMusic’s innovative assessment tools.
Concert Band
Repertoire from the brightest names in music education publishers can be found in SmartMusic, with actual recordings for your students to model the professional performances. These include Alfred Music, GIA Publications, Neil A. Kjos Music Company, Hal Leonard, C.L. Barnhouse Company, and many more.
Works from composers Robert Sheldon, Carol Brittin Chambers, Randall D. Standridge, Matt Conaway, Jorge L. Vargas, James Swearingen, Brian Balmages, William Owens, Michael Story, Adrian B. Sims, Robert W. Smith, and thousands more are waiting for you to assign to your students for immediate feedback.
Orchestra
Your orchestra program will flourish with works from Alfred Music, C. L. Barnhouse Company, Carl Fischer, Edwin F. Kalmus, The FJH Music Company, G. Schirmer, Grand Mesa Music, Hal Leonard, LudwigMasters, Neil A. Kjos Music Company, Wingert-Jones Publications, and countless more.
If you’re playing classical transcriptions, pop arrangements, or the newest concert and festival works by Brian Balmages, Chris Bernotas, Larry Clark, Susan H. Day, Carrie Lane Gruselle, Richard Meyer, Deborah Baker Monday, Soon Hee Newbold, William Owens, Bob Phillips, Doug Spata, Michael Story, or other notable composers and arrangers, SmartMusic’s incredible collection will have you covered.
Choir
Choral works from Alfred Music, GIA, BriLee, Carl Fischer, Walton, Santa Barbara Music Publishing, Pinkzebra Music, Graphite Publishing, and more are ready to help your students prepare before the first rehearsal.
A rich and varied selection from composers and arrangers Andy Beck, Ola Gjeilo, Pinkzebra, Jocelyn Hagen, Victor C. Johnson, Ruth Morris Gray, Rollo A. Dilworth, Jacob Narverud, Alice Parker, Greg Gilpin, David N. Childs, Heather Sorenson, Robert T. Gibson, Mark Burrows, Laura Farnell, and so many more are available in SmartMusic today.
Jazz Ensemble
Your jazz groups of any size can get into the swing with carefully edited charts and play-along books from Baker’s Jazz and More, C. L. Barnhouse Company, Belwin Jazz, Doug Beach Music, Hal Leonard, Heritage Jazzworks, Jalen Publishing, Kendor Music, Neil A. Kjos Music Company, Smart Chart, and more great publishers of jazz.
Composers and arrangers like Paul Baker, Alan Baylock, Doug Beach, Kris Berg, Denis DiBlasio, Gordon Goodwin, Wycliffe Gordon, Rick Hirsch, Mike Kamuf, Victor López, Ellen Rowe, Mike Story, and Bret Zvacek are among the hundreds of great writers found in SmartMusic.
Pop Solos
Don’t stop there! Practice can be fun when students begin exploring their favorite hits from movies, games, and TV. Keep them playing with music from Hamilton, Star Wars, Harry Potter, The Legend of Zelda, Super Mario, Taylor Swift, Lizzo, The Weeknd, BTS, Olivia Rodrigo, and more—with new titles added every month!
The SmartMusic practice app is the perfect companion for your instrumental or choral ensemble of any level. Students can engage and improve between rehearsals using the innovative assessment and recording tools. No matter your music selections, you will find the pieces you know and love in SmartMusic’s unrivaled repertoire library. Get started by generating a quote.