Conversations With Joseph Flummerfelt

Author : Joseph Flummerfelt,Donald Nally
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780810869769

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Conversations with Joseph Flummerfelt by Joseph Flummerfelt,Donald Nally Pdf

In Conversations with Joseph Flummerfelt: Thoughts on Conducting, Music, and Musicians, Donald Nally presents a window into the mind and heart of one of America's most celebrated and distinguished choral conductors. This captivating narrative traces Flummerfelt's formative years and influences, his most important artistic collaborations, and his approach to conducting and music. There is also a philosophical discussion of cultural influences and obstacles in art, how one teaches conducting, and the foundations of ensemble music-making. This book explores the conductor's early career influences from musicians such as Robert Shaw and Nadia Boulanger and reveals his thoughts on composers Igor Stravinsky, Samuel Barber, Benjamin Britten, and Olivier Messiaen, among others. Topics range from his approaches to style, conducting gesture, sound generation, and choral sound to the psychology of music-making and the contemporary environment of art-making. Nally's interview style captures the energy and rhythm of Flummerfelt's speech so the conductor's voice and passion is readily evident. Through these intimate conversations, Flummerfelt reveals his life, art, and ideas-from close collaborations with some of the world's greatest orchestral conductors to his work as artistic director of Westminster Choir College. More than thirty photos present a visual record of Flummerfelt's collaborations with many of the great musicians of our time; a biographical timeline, list of collaborating orchestras and conductors, and discography are also included. Book jacket.

Author : Emily Freeman Brown
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780810884014

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A Dictionary for the Modern Conductor by Emily Freeman Brown Pdf

Titles in Dictionaries for the Modern Musician: A Scarecrow Press Music Series offer both the novice and the advanced artist key information designed to convey the field of study and performance for a major instrument or instrument class, as well as the workings of musicians in areas from conducting to composing. Unlike other encyclopedic works, contributions to this series focus primarily on the knowledge required by the contemporary musical student or performer. Each dictionary covers topics from instrument parts to playing technique, major works to key figures. A must-have for any musician’s personal library! Filling a vital need in the rapidly changing and complex field of conducting, A Dictionary for the Modern Conductor is a concise one-volume reference tool that brings together for the first time information covering a broad array of topics essential for today’s conductor to know. Author and conductor Emily Freeman Brown offers easy-to-read definitions of key musical terms, translated foreign terms, examples of usage from orchestral music and practical vocabulary in multiple languages. A Dictionary for the Modern Conductor includes biographies of major conductors and other individual important to the world of modern conducting, emphasizing throughout their contributions to the progress of the conducting professional; critical information on major orchestras, significant ensembles, key institutions and organizations, with a focus on the ways in which they preserve and advance today’s musical life; and practical entries covering baton and rehearsal techniques, bowing terms, information about instruments, voice types and much more. In a series of appendixes, A Dictionary for the Modern Conductor also covers such topics as orchestral works that changed the art and practice of conducting, a short historiography of conducting, a comprehensive bibliography, a look at conducting recitative, and a list of pitches, interval names, rhythmic terms, orchestral and percussion instrument names, and finally translations of all of these categories of information into French, German, Italian, and Spanish. A Dictionary for the Modern Conductor will appeal to aspiring conductors and seasoned professionals. It is an invaluable resource.

Author : Joseph Church
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199993406

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Music Direction for the Stage by Joseph Church Pdf

JOSEPH CHURCH is best known for his work as music director and supervisor of two groundbreaking Broadway musicals, The Who's Tommy and The Lion King. He has worked on countless other productions as music director, conductor, keyboardist, and/or arranger, on and Off-Broadway, nationwide, and worldwide, among them, In The Heights, Sister Act, Les Miserables, Little Shop Of Horrors, Randy Newman's Faust, and Radio City's Christmas Spectacular. Also an active composer, he has written for film, television, the concert stage, and over thirty plays and musicals.

Author : Joseph G. Beck
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781491825129

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America's Choral Ambassador by Joseph G. Beck Pdf

At the 2007 American Choral Directors Association Southwestern Convention, I presented an Interest Session lecture titled John Finley Williamsons influence on Americas choral singing. The session was well attended and the question-and-answer period was spirited. The participants were most interested in the recordings, photographs and articles that I presented, and wished there had been more. Subsequently, I began enlarge my lecture into a PowerPoint presentation that included newly found newspaper articles and historical photographs of many of the foreign concerts tours by the Westminster Choir. These various new items are included in the present edition, plus an article by Mrs. Williamson about the first European tour. I also have included some background information about my personal experiences with Dr. Williamson when I was a student at the Westminster Choir College and as a participant in his legendary summer school workshops. Preface All of art must come from the heart. This must be true because the quality that makes art endure is the spiritual value that must be in art. The art that comes most quickly from the heart and speaks most readily to the heart is the art of music in particular the art of solo and choral singing. J. F. Williamson, Lecture, Summer, 1959 The life and work of John Finley Williamson (1887 1964) is so complex and interesting that one volume could not possibly do him justice. He was the founder of the Westminster Choir and the college that bears its name, and was one of Americas choral pioneers in the early twentieth century. His charismatic teaching of choral and vocal techniques helped revive singing in Americas churches and schools at a time when it was in decline. I knew John Finley Williamson for a mere ten years from the time I was a teenager until his untimely death, when I was twenty-eight. During that time I think I was able to know him as well as any of his many students. 2014 marks fifty years since the passing of John Finley Williamson. This volume describes both pictorially and through his lectures his worldwide influence on the choral and vocal arts.

Author : Brenda Smith,Robert T. Sataloff
Publisher : Plural Publishing
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781597566926

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Choral Pedagogy and the Older Singer by Brenda Smith,Robert T. Sataloff Pdf

Author : Brenda Smith,Robert T. Sataloff
Publisher : Plural Publishing
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781597566063

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Choral Pedagogy, Third Edition by Brenda Smith,Robert T. Sataloff Pdf

Choral Pedagogy, Third Edition, is the ideal text for voice teachers, choral conductors, church musicians, and professional and amateur singers who wish to develop strategies for lifelong singing. It concisely and clearly presents the principles of voice pedagogy from the perspective of both conducting and voice science in a user-friendly fashion, including helpful charts and simple anatomic diagrams. In addition, it offers teaching methods from history and philosophy, medical and voice science, and pedagogical concepts from active musical experts. Special attention is given to the needs of amateur singers and conductors. Topics covered include choral diction, posture and seating, rehearsal practices, and matters of vocal health. For the third edition, the authors have completely revised the text, updating the medical information and expanding the exercises. They have also added three new chapters: A chapter entitled "Singing in the 21st Century" that considers the vocal/choral demands of the choral repertoire being written in this century.A chapter on teaching young boys to sing written by Vic Oakes, the conductor of the Chattanooga Boys Choir.A chapter entitled "The Value of Lifelong Singing." With its updates and additions, Choral Pedagogy, Third Edition, is a valuable resource for students of choral conducting, music education, church music, and choral singing.

Author : Isaac B. Sharp,Christian T. Iosso
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725273627

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Christian Ethics in Conversation by Isaac B. Sharp,Christian T. Iosso Pdf

Inspired by Donald W. Shriver Jr.'s leadership of Union Theological Seminary (New York City), Christian Ethics in Conversation brings together essays by members of a stellar faculty--including Gary Dorrien, Larry Rasmussen, Phyllis Trible, and Cornel West--and interdisciplinary colleagues, such as Columbia University biologist Robert Pollack, Chancellor Emeritus of the Jewish Theological Seminary Ismar Schorsch, and Pulitzer Prize-winning Yale historian David W. Blight. The challenges they describe of embracing diversity while facing financial pressure and encouraging social change speak to seminaries, churches, denominations, and faithful individuals facing similar challenges today. The chapters model the kinds of interdisciplinary, interfaith, and inter-institutional conversations foundational to Shriver's approach to Christian public ethics. Shriver and Union Seminary addressed racial justice directly, and colleagues describe lessons learned from an activist-academic who was also a Southerner committed to reconciling and repairing the wounds of history. International conversation partners analyze the place of moral claims in successful social transformation, but those claims also had to be lived out in the seminary's institutional life. Gender justice, full inclusion, and liberation theologies became crucial to Union's identity, but not automatically. The changes required are described by a former dean, board member, worship leader, and several students. All the while, faculty and students of Union and its neighbors were engaged in ongoing debates about honest patriotism, friendship across division, and the dangers of uncritical nationalism, also captured by the book's contributors. With contributions from: M. Craig Barnes Serene Jones Dean K. Thompson Donald W. Shriver, Jr. Gary Dorrien Milton McCormick Gatch, Jr. Larry Rasmussen Cornel West: Janet R. Walton James A. Forbes, Jr. Phyllis Trible Robert Pollack Ismar Schorsch Hays Rockwell Thomas S. Johnson Lionel Shriver David Kwang-sun SUH Roger Sharpe Bill Crawford Robert W. Snyder Eric Mount Joseph V. Montville Helmut Reihlen and Erika Reihlen David Blight Ronald H. Stone Steve Phelps

Author : Patrice Madura Ward-Steinman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135241445

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Becoming a Choral Music Teacher by Patrice Madura Ward-Steinman Pdf

This textbook prepares Music Education and Choral Conducting majors to be effective middle school and high school choral music teachers. It fully integrates the choral field experience for hands-on learning and reflection and allows the student to observe and teach the book’s principles. It covers the essentials of vocal development, auditions, literature, rehearsals, classroom management, and practical matters.

Author : Wesleyan Methodist Church. Conference
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Methodists
ISBN : WISC:89076980846

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Minutes of Several Conversations Between the Methodist Preachers in the Connexion Established by the Late Rev. John Wesley, M.A., at Their Eighty-first[-one Hundred and Eighty-ninth] Yearly Conference by Wesleyan Methodist Church. Conference Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433070783372

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Minutes of Several Conversations at the ... Yearly Conference of the People Called Methodists ... by Anonim Pdf

Author : Betty Hanley,Thomas W. Goolsby
Publisher : Canadian Music Educators' Association
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780920630105

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Musical Understanding by Betty Hanley,Thomas W. Goolsby Pdf

Musical Understanding is an outcome of the Symposium on Musical Understanding held in Victoria, BC on February 22-23, 2001. This collection of essays is not a typical report of proceedings. The book features chapters that examine musical understanding from a number of perspectives while addressing theoretical and practical considerations. The topics discussed by established teachers and teacher educators from Canada and the United States include: constructivism, multicultural music education, impact of cognition and culture, mind/body dualism, movement and music, and listening to music.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015039857076

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ARTnews by Anonim Pdf

Author : Derek C. Hulme
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780810872653

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Dmitri Shostakovich Catalogue by Derek C. Hulme Pdf

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-75) was one of the greatest composers of the 20th century, as well as the first major Soviet composer. In the fourth edition of Dmitri Shostakovich Catalogue: The First Hundred Years and Beyond, Derek C. Hulme names and describes all known musical compositions of the Russian composer. More than 175 major works are annotated and discussed, including such comprehensive details as titles and subtitles, dates of composition, instrumentation, and duration; information on dedications and premieres; arrangements by the composer and others; publication details; notes on bibliographical references and the location of the autograph score; and comprehensive chronological lists of vinyl, compact disc, and visual recordings. The entries are presented chronologically and by opus number, while indexes of names and compositions provide full accessibility. Several appendixes supplement the volume, guiding readers to further information in published sources and providing information on the composer's film, radio, television, and theatre productions; his abandoned projects and obscure works; and his recordings, including box sets and special USSR recordings. An appendix also discusses the monogram DSCH, a musical motif based on his name that permeates his compositions. This new edition also includes a comprehensive chronological chart of Shostakovich's works and historical events and several plates of memorabilia.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Orchestra
ISBN : UOM:39015057439948

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Symphony by Anonim Pdf

Author : Wesleyan Methodist Church
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:097868083

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Minutes of Several Conversations at the ... Yearly Conference of the People Called Methodists ... by Wesleyan Methodist Church Pdf