The Complete Idiot's Guide to Conducting Music

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Conducting Music
Author: Michael Miller
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2012-06-05
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1101588756

The complex art of conducting may look effortless to the casual onlooker, however, it requires a great deal of knowledge and skill. The success of a performance hinges on the director's ability to keep the group playing together and interpreting the music as the composer intended. The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Conducting Music shows student and novice conductors how to lead bands, orchestras, choirs, and other ensembles effectively through sight-reading, rehearsals, and performances.

Evoking Sound

Evoking Sound
Author: James Mark Jordan
Publisher: G I A Publications
Total Pages: 466
Release: 2009
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781579997267

DVD contains discussion and demonstration of instrumental and choral conducting techniques by the author and Eugene Migliaro Corporon; in part, animation.

Conducting and Rehearsing the Instrumental Music Ensemble

Conducting and Rehearsing the Instrumental Music Ensemble
Author: John F. Colson
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 521
Release: 2012
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0810882604

"The most comprehensive guide on the rehearsal process for conducting instrumental music ensembles. This work breaks the multidimensional activity of working with an ensemble, orchestra, or band into its constituent components"--from publisher description.

Guide to Score Study for the Wind Band Conductor

Guide to Score Study for the Wind Band Conductor
Author: Frank Battisti
Publisher: Meredith Music
Total Pages: 123
Release: 2000-03-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1476850674

(Meredith Music Resource). This outstanding "one-of-a-kind" text was designed to assist the conductor in achieving a personal interpretation of music.

Conducting with Feeling

Conducting with Feeling
Author:
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2001
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780634030291

(Meredith Music Resource). A thought provoking collection of ideas by today's leading conductors on how a conductor develops feelings for a piece of music and communicates those feelings to an ensemble.

The Cambridge Companion to Conducting

The Cambridge Companion to Conducting
Author: José Antonio Bowen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 585
Release: 2003-11-20
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1107494788

In this wide-ranging inside view of the history and practice of conducting, analysis and advice comes directly from working conductors, including Sir Charles Mackerras on opera, Bramwell Tovey on being an Artistic Director, Martyn Brabbins on modern music, Leon Botstein on programming and Vance George on choral conducting, and from those who work closely with conductors: a leading violinist describes working as a soloist with Stokowski, Ormandy and Barbirolli, while Solti and Abbado's studio producer explains orchestral recording, and one of the world's most powerful managers tells all. The book includes advice on how to conduct different types of groups (choral, opera, symphony, early music) and provides a substantial history of conducting as a study of national traditions. It is an unusually honest book about a secretive industry and managers, artistic directors, soloists, players and conductors openly discuss their different perspectives for the first time.

Conducting Technique

Conducting Technique
Author: Brock McElheran
Publisher:
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1989
Genre: Music
ISBN:

Conducting Technique has been accepted as a standard text for both choral and orchestral conducting courses taught at universities, colleges, and conservatories throughout the English-speaking world. For this revised edition the author has made a number of corrections and additions, includinga new preface.

Conducting

Conducting
Author: Anthony Joseph Maiello
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1996
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781576234532

This comprehensive text by Anthony Maiello on the art of conducting is designed to be hands on, user friendly, playable by any instrumentation, a step-by-step approach to baton technique, great for use with a wind, string or voice conducting class, and excellent as a refresher course for all conductors at all levels of ability. The 232-page book covers a variety of conducting issues and the included recording contains all the musical exercises in the book (there are more than 100).

Conducting Choirs, Volume 1: The Promising Conductor: A Practical Guide for Beginning Choral Conductors

Conducting Choirs, Volume 1: The Promising Conductor: A Practical Guide for Beginning Choral Conductors
Author: David P. DeVenney
Publisher: Roger Dean Publishing Company
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2010-09-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781429117531

Intended for beginning conductors, this volume offers a conceptual approach to conducting rather than an imitative one. Students begin by building right-hand and then left-hand gestures and are provided with exercises designed to increase independence and expressiveness. Approaches to repertory and programming are also introduced, as are score marking, rehearsal strategies and preparation, and singing technique. In total, it is a concise guide that offers a wealth of practical information and stands alone as a resource for even part-time choir directors.