Conducting Technique; For Beginners and Professionals Book
by McElheran, BrockEdition: 3rd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-12-16
Publisher(s): Fort Wayne
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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 |
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