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Product Identifiers

PublisherPrentice Hall PTR

ISBN-100132514818

ISBN-139780132514811

eBay Product ID (ePID)34556

Product Key Features

Number of Pages286 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameModern Conductor

SubjectComposers & Musicians, General, Instruction & Study / Conducting

Publication Year1996

TypeTextbook

AuthorElizabeth A. H. Green

Subject AreaMusic, Biography & Autobiography

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight21.6 Oz

Item Length9.5 in

Item Width7 in

Additional Product Features

Edition Number6

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN96-028810

Dewey Edition22

TitleLeadingThe

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal781.45

Table Of ContentThe 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, Endings. 7. Developing the Left Hand. 8. The Fermata. 9. Fast FIVES, SEVENS-Twentieth-Century Innovations. 10. Melding and Psychological Conducting. 11. The Virtuoso Technique. II. SCORE STUDY. 12. Clefs and Transpositions. 13. Instrumental Conducting: Orchestra and Band Scores. 14. Choral Conducting. 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: Synopsis of Musical Form. Appendix E: Terminology for the Conductor. Appendix F: The Training Exercises in Sequence. Bibliography. Indexes.

SynopsisAppropriate 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.Extensively refined and updated, this new edition on conducting posits that conducting is a time-space art. It builds basic manual 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., Appropriate 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. Extensively refined and updated, this new edition on conducting posits that conducting is a time-space art. It builds basic manual 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.

LC Classification NumberMT85.G785 1997