Modern Conductor

Name: Modern Conductor
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ISBN: 9780135902165

ISBN-10: 0135902169

ISBN-13: 9780135902165

Edition: 3rd 1981

Authors: Elizabeth A. Green

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Extensively refined and updated, this new edition on conducting posits that conducting is atime-space art. It builds basic book techniques and 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. Key words and principles are highlighted in boldface or italics. This book states a new principle regarding gesture-speed as related to dynamics and phrasing. Drills to train the mind and hands simultaneously are presented. Complete diagrams, all time-beating patterns, and logical classification of expressive gestures are included. Offers manual-technique photo…

Book details

List price: $34.00
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 1981
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Language: English

The Art of Conducting
Preface and Credo
Technique
So You Want to Be a Conductor?	p. 1
The Conductor: Basic Time-Beating	p. 8
The Baton	p. 21
Two, One, Six, Five, and Subdivided Beats	p. 27
The Expressive Gestures	p. 42
Phrasing, Tempo Changes, Endings	p. 71
Developing the Left Hand	p. 90
The Fermata	p. 96
Fast Fives, Sevens - Twentieth-Century Innovations	p. 111
Melding and Psychological Conducting	p. 138
The Virtuoso Technique	p. 151
Score Study	p. 170
Clefs and Transpositions	p. 172
Instrumental Conducting: Orchestra and Band Scores	p. 183
Choral Conducting	p. 211
Applied Musicianship: Band, Orchestra, Chorus	p. 230
Memorizing the Score; Performing the Score	p. 242
Seating Charts	p. 249
Instrumentation	p. 256
Classification of Bowings	p. 260
Synopsis of Musical Form	p. 265
Terminology for the Conductor	p. 271
The Training Exercises in Sequence	p. 276
Bibliography	p. 278
Indexes	p. 283
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