Conducting Technique; For Beginners and Professionals Book

by McElheran, Brock

• ISBN13: 9780193868540
• ISBN10: 0193868547
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-12-16
• Publisher: Fort Wayne

Summary

For beginners and professionals, this edition starts at the very beginning to include the most basic conducting principles and ends with insightful advice on coducting subtleties. This latest edition takes into account avant-garde music and new music notation.

Table of Contents

FOREWORD	v
PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION	vii
PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION	viii
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION	ix
I INSPIRATION	3	(4)
II OTHER STUDIES	7	(2)
III CONDUCTING TECHNIQUE-GENERAL	9	(4)
IV THE BATON	13	(2)
V ODDS AND ENDS	15	(1)
VI BEAT PATTERNS-THEORY	16	(6)
VII BEAT PATTERNS-SPECIFIC	22	(15)
VIII THE LEFT HAND	37	(2)
IX DYNAMICS, ACCENTS, PHRASING, TEMPO, CHARACTER	39	(7)
X CUES	46	(4)
XI OFF-BEAT CUES, ACCENTS, AND SYNCOPATIONS	50	(4)
XII CONDUCTING TO RECORDS	54	(3)
XIII MORE ODDS AND ENDS	57	(7)
XIV STARTS AND STOPS	64	(12)
XV SUBDIVISION AND "MERGING"	76	(7)
XVI MOULDING THE MUSIC	83	(2)
XVII FERMATAS	85	(6)
XVIII EARS	91	(2)
XIX NERVES	93	(2)
XX THOUGHTS ON INTERPRETATION	95	(8)
XXI SOME REHEARSAL SUGGESTIONS	103	(6)
XXII SOLOS AND RECITATIVES	109	(4)
XXIII CHANGING BEAT UNITS	113	(7)
XXIV THE AVANT-GARDE	120	(2)
XXV THE CONCERT	122	(5)
XXVI NON-MUSICAL CHORES	127	(1)
XXVII ON TEACHING CONDUCTING	128	(2)
ADDITIONS & AMPLIFICATIONS FOR THE THIRD EDITION	130	(5)
INDEX	135