Full Description
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. Building upon a classic conducting text, this edition updates references and expands sections to provide students with more comprehensive explanations of concepts. It emphasizes that a technical approach should be complimented with musical insight and an understanding of conducting as a gesture. This text details baton timing techniques; shows the relationship of time, speed, and motion; and looks beyond training into preparing for a career as a conductor.
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.
7. Developing the Left Hand.
8. The Fermata.
9. Beyond TWO, THREE, FOUR and SIX: Twentieth-Century Innovations.
10. Melding and the Virtuoso Technique.
II. SCORE STUDY.
11. Clefs and Transpositions.
12. Instrumental Conducting: Orchestra and Band Scores.
13. Choral Conducting.
14. Conductor as Collaborator: Opera and Concerto.
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: Terminology for the Conductor.
Appendix E: The Training Exercises in Sequence.
Bibliography.
Indexes.
