Modern Conductor

Name: Modern Conductor
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ISBN: 9780135944585

ISBN-10: 0135944589

ISBN-13: 9780135944585

Edition: 5th

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: $62.00
Edition: 5th
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



The Art of Conducting, by Eugene Ormandy


Technique


So You Want to Be a Conductor?


The Conductor: Basic Time-Beating


The Baton


Two, One, Six, Five, and Subdivided Beats


The Expressive Gestures


Phrasing, Tempo Changes, Endings


Developing the Left Hand


The Fermata


Fast FIVES, SEVENS—Twentieth-Century Innovations


Melding and Psychological Conducting


The Virtuoso Technique


Score Study


Clefs and Transpositions


Instrumental Conducting: Orchestra and Band Scores


Choral Conducting


Applied Musicianship: Band, Orchestra, Chorus


Memorizing the Score; Performing the Score


Appendices


Seating Charts


Instrumentation


Classification of Bowings


Synopsis of Musical Form


Terminology for the Conductor


The Training Exercises in Sequence


Bibliography


Indexes