Conducting Technique for Beginners and Professionals

by McElheran, Brock

• ISBN13: 9780193858305
• ISBN10: 0193858304
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1989-03-09
• Publisher: Fort Wayne

Summary

Conducting Technique has been accepted as a standard text for both choraland orchestral conducting courses taught at universities, colleges, andconservatories throughout the English-speaking world. For this revised editionthe author has made a number of corrections and additions, including a newpreface.

Author Biography

Brock McElheran is a graduate of the University of Toronto [B.A., Mus.B.] and Director of Choral Activities and Professor of Music at the Crane School of Music, State University College of Arts & Science, Potsdam, New York. He is Director of the Saratoga-Potsdam Choral Institute.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. v
Preface to the Revised Edition	p. vii
Preface to the First Edition	p. ix
Inspiration	p. 3
Other Studies	p. 7
Conducting Technique--General	p. 9
The Baton	p. 13
Odds and Ends	p. 15
Beat Patterns--Theory	p. 16
Beat Patterns--Specific	p. 22
The Left Hand	p. 37
Dynamics, Accents, Phrasing, Tempo, Character	p. 39
Cues	p. 46
Off-Beat Cues, Accents, and Syncopations	p. 50
Conducting to Records	p. 54
More Odds and Ends	p. 57
Starts and Stops	p. 64
Subdivision and "Merging"	p. 76
Moulding the Music	p. 83
Fermatas	p. 85
Ears	p. 91
Nerves	p. 93
Thoughts on Interpretation	p. 95
Some Rehearsal Suggestions	p. 103
Solos and Recitatives	p. 109
Changing Beat Units	p. 113
The Avant-Garde	p. 120
The Concert	p. 122
Non-Musical Chores	p. 127
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