Spicer's Recommendations

BOOKS

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Saxophone / Jazz Etudes

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• Top Tones for the Saxophone by Sigurd M. Raschèr

• Saxophone High Tones by Eugene Rousseau

• Voicing by Donald J. Sinta

• Repository of Scales and Melodic Patterns by Yusef A. Lateef

• Technique Development in Fourths for Jazz Improvisation by Ramon Ricker

• Advanded Jazz Conception for Saxophone by Lennie Niehaus

• Patterns for Saxophone by Oliver Nelson

• Etudes pour Saxophones by H. Klosé

• Eight Very Difficult Studies for Saxophone by Guy Laqour

• 48 Famous Studies for Oboe or Saxophone by W. Ferling

• Patterns for Jazz by Jerry Coker

• Saxophone Manual: Choosing, Setting up, and Maintaining a Saxophone by Stephen Howard

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Composing / Arranging

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• Arranging and Composing for the Small Ensemble by David Baker

• Arranging for the Small Jazz Ensemble by Robert Larson

• Inside the Score by Rayburn Wright

• Modern Jazz Voicings: Arranging for Small and Medium Ensembles by Ted Pease and Ken Pullig

• Arranging for Large Jazz Ensemble by Ken Pullig

• Jazz Composition: Theory and Practice by Ted Pease

• Reharmonization Techniques by Randy Felts

• Behind Bars: The Definitive Guide to Music Notation by Elaine Gould

• Complete Guide to Film Scoring by Richard Davis

• The Emerging Film Composer by Richard Bellis

• A Composer's Guide to Game Music by Winifred Phillips

• Jazz Arranging and Composing: A Linear Approach by Bill Dobbins

• Aaron Marks' Complete Guide to Game Audio 

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Music History

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• A History of Western Music by J. Peter Burkholder

• Jazz Styles by Mark C. Gridley

• Notes and Tones: Musician-to-Musician Interviews by Arthur Taylor

• Played Out on the Strip: The Rise and Fall of Las Vegas Casino Bands by Janis L. McKay

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Jazz Pedagogy

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• The Jazz Language by Dan Haerle

• The Jazz Theory Book by Mark Levine

• The Jazz Ensemble Director's Handbook by John Berry

• Jazz Pedagogy: The Jazz Educator's Handbook by J. Richard Dunscomb

• The Creative Director: Alternative Rehearsal Techniques by Edward S. Lisk

• Barron's AP Music Theory by Nancy Scoggin

• Rock Your College: How to Start and Run A College or University-Based Music Business Entity by Marcy Rauer Wagman

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Video Game Development/

Game Audio

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• Blood, Sweat and Pixels by Jason Schrier

• Press Reset by Jason Schrier

• Complete Guide to Game Audio by Aaron Marks

• A Theory of Fun for Game Design by Ralph Koster

• The Foley Grail by Vanessa Theme Ament

• Leading With Sound by Rob Bridgett

• Video Game Storytelling by Evan Skolnick

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Other

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• How to Form a Nonprofit Corporation by Anthony Mancuso

• Nonprofit Management 101 by Darian Rodriguez Heyman

• Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon

• Show Your Work by Austin Kleon

• Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

• 21 Lessons For The 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari

• Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari

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VIDEO GAMES

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• Overwatch

• Ark: Survival Evolved

• Kingdom: Two Crowns

• Kingdom: New Lands

• Beat Saber

• Starcraft, Starcraft 2

• Minecraft

• No Man's Sky

• Trover Saves The Universe

• Surviving Mars

• Fallout 4

• Overcooked

• Rocket League

• Frost Punk

• Celeste 

• Super Meat Boy

• Hollow Knight

• Outer Wilds

• Demeo

• Starbound

• Sea of Thieves 

• Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

• Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

• Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

• Read Dead Redemption

• Read Dead Redemption 2

• Call of Duty 2

• Call of Duty 4

• Age of Empires 1, 2, and 3

• Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

• Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask

• Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

• Guild Wars

• Super Smash Bros. (all of them)

• Super Mario Bros. (all of them)

• Final Fantasy III, VII, X, XII

• Harvest Moon

• Warcraft 1, 2, and 3