Basic Conducting Techniques,9780130852960

Basic Conducting Techniques

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Edition: 4th
ISBN13: 9780130852960
ISBN10: 0130852961
Format: Spiral Bound
Pub. Date: 2000-01-01
Publisher(s): Taylor & Francis
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Summary

For one/two-semester junior-level conducting courses in department of Music. Designed for use with mixed classes of instrumental and choral music majors, this competency-based student workbook provides sound and practical hands-on procedures for beginning and advanced conducting students. It features a broad repertory of musical excerpts, andsince most are reduced to a four-part formatstudents can practice conducting skills and rehearsal techniques at each class meeting. The workbook promotes self-directed learning by challenging students to attempt conducting techniques as they arise in the music.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Introduction 1(6)
Part One Conducting Technique
The Baton, Preparation, Downbeat, and Release
7(7)
Beat Patterns and Preparations in Tempo, Dynamic, and Basic Style
14(5)
Preparations and Releases for all Counts
19(5)
Fractional Beat Preparations
24(3)
Divided Meters
27(3)
Conducting Musical Styles
30(4)
The Fermata
34(8)
The Cue
42(2)
The Left Hand
44(7)
Asymmetrical and Changing Meters
51(4)
Tempo Changes and Accompanying
55(6)
Part Two Score Preparation and Rehearsal Technique
Analysis and Score Preparation
61(5)
The Instrumental Rehearsal
66(8)
The Choral Rehearsal
74(249)
Part Three Musical Excerpts
Chapter One
81(2)
Chapter Two
83(18)
Chapter Three
101(13)
Chapter Four
114(9)
Chapter Five
123(15)
Chapter Six
138(14)
Chapter Seven
152(24)
Chapter Eight
176(14)
Chapter Nine
190(28)
Chapter Ten
218(30)
Chapter Eleven
248(27)
Chapter Twelve
275(48)
Appendix A Competencies for the Beginning Conducting Class 323(2)
Appendix B Student Evaluation 325(3)
Appendix C Chart of Transpositions and Clefs 328(1)
Appendix D Full Score Instrumentation and Foreign Equivalents 329(1)
Appendix E Counting Drills for Uneven Meters 330(2)
Appendix F Musical Style Chart 332(2)
Selected References 334(2)
Index of Musical Excerpts 336

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