The Modern Conductor

by Green, Elizabeth A.

• ISBN13: 9780132514811
• ISBN10: 0132514818
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-01-01
• Publisher: Pearson College Div

Summary

Appropriate for junior- to graduate-level courses in Introduction to Conducting (advanced techniques included), Band, Orchestra, Chorus. Requires background in Music Theory, Music History, and Music Analysis. Extensively refined and updated, this new edition on conducting posits that conducting is a time-space art. It builds basic manual techniquesand includes additional band scores excerpts, placed in proximity with the classic repertoire. The text adds new baton timing techniques, and shows the relationships of time, speed, and motion.

Table of Contents

The Art of Conducting, by Eugene Ormandy.

I. TECHNIQUE.

1. So You Want to Be a Conductor?
2. The Conductor: Basic Time-Beating.
3. The Baton.
4. TWO, ONE, SIX, FIVE, and Subdivided Beats.
5. The Expressive Gestures.
6. Phrasing, Tempo Changes, Endings.
7. Developing the Left Hand.
8. The Fermata.
9. Fast FIVES, SEVENS—Twentieth-Century Innovations.
10. Melding and Psychological Conducting.
11. The Virtuoso Technique.

II. SCORE STUDY.

12. Clefs and Transpositions.
13. Instrumental Conducting: Orchestra and Band Scores.
14. Choral Conducting.
15. Applied Musicianship: Band, Orchestra, Chorus.
16. Memorizing the Score; Performing the Score.

APPENDICES.

Appendix A: Seating Charts.
Appendix B: Instrumentation.
Appendix C: Classification of Bowings.
Appendix D: Synopsis of Musical Form.
Appendix E: Terminology for the Conductor.
Appendix F: The Training Exercises in Sequence.
Bibliography.
Indexes.