Expressive Conducting

Author : Jerald Schwiebert,Dustin Barr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351795357

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Expressive Conducting by Jerald Schwiebert,Dustin Barr Pdf

Expressive Conducting: Movement and Performance Theory for Conductors applies the insight of movement and performance theory to the practice of conducting, offering a groundbreaking new approach to conducting. Where traditional conducting pedagogies often place emphasis on training parts of the body in isolation, Expressive Conducting teaches conductors to understand their gestures as part of an interconnected system that incorporates the whole body. Rather than emphasizing learning specific patterns and gestures, this book enables student and professional conductors to develop a conducting technique that is centered around expressing the themes of the music. Drawing parallels to the worlds of acting, this text treats the body as the conductor’s instrument. Coaching notes derived from years of experience as a performance movement specialist offer readers approachable methods for eliminating communication barriers—both conscious and subconscious—to encourage optimal performance, highlighting acting theory, movement exercises and the significance of weight distribution. Unlike other conducting approaches, this text understands that conducting resonates throughout the entire body and is not conveyed by the hands or baton alone. With a comprehensive consideration of the conductor’s body and movements, featuring over 50 original illustrations, Expressive Conducting advances strategies for improving one’s conducting skills in rehearsal and performance. Jerald Schwiebert has developed a practical language for expressive conducting. Together, Schwiebert and Barr present a text that is suitable for conducting students, instructors, and professionals alike.

Author : Michael Hathcock,Kevin Geraldi,Brian Doyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1733228799

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The Elements of Expressive Conducting by Michael Hathcock,Kevin Geraldi,Brian Doyle Pdf

The Elements of Expressive Conducting begins with a synthesis of various movement theories which allow beginning conducting students to understand how best to use their body as an expressive instrument. Strategies for developing musical expression beyond pedagogical execution are discussed in each chapter. The text further explores merging musical preparation with a healthy, tension-free approach to an individual's movement. Readers will also find strategies for developing the coordination between the ear and body; ways to transfer "every day" movements to the art of conducting; and suggestions for building to a professional level of success.FeaturesExercises which stimulate the imagination and inform the bodyVideo examples of these exercises on the publisher's websiteDrawings of imaginative ways to consider beat patternsMusical examples chosen to reinforce specific conducting fundamentalsPractical strategies drawn from the author's more than four decades of pedagogical experience

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781621969587

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Conducting the Wind Orchestra: Meaning, Gesture, and Expressive Potential by Anonim Pdf

Author : Max Thomas Krone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Conducting
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042707492

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Expressive Conducting by Max Thomas Krone Pdf

Author : John F. Colson
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780810882614

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Conducting and Rehearsing the Instrumental Music Ensemble by John F. Colson Pdf

Conducting and Rehearsing the Instrumental Music Ensemble is the most comprehensive guide on the rehearsal process for conducting instrumental music ensembles. Ideal for the advanced instrumental music conductor seeking to look beyond basic conducting technique, this work breaks the multidimensional activity of working with an ensemble, orchestra, or band into its constituent components. Advanced students of conducting will find within the full range of conducting activities: • Chapters on the infrastructure of the rehearsal, the rehearsal environment, 10 rehearsal essentials, score study, music imagery, inner singing, and rehearsal procedures (with an emphasis on an integrated approach to rehearsing) • The technical priorities of intonation and tuning, rhythm patterns, ensemble sonority (tone, balance, blend, color and texture), and articulation • The musical priorities of tempo and ensemble precision, phrasing and the musical line, style and interpretation, dynamics and musical expression • Emphasizing the expectations of 21st-century conductors, the challenges of conducting and rehearsing contemporary music, preparing conductor profiles and self-evaluations, and moving from the rehearsal process to concert performance Conducting and Rehearsing the Instrumental Music Ensemble is a great resource for teachers and students of conducting, as well as current conductors wishing to further hone their skills.

Author : Alexis Kirke,Eduardo R. Miranda
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781447141235

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Guide to Computing for Expressive Music Performance by Alexis Kirke,Eduardo R. Miranda Pdf

This book discusses all aspects of computing for expressive performance, from the history of CSEMPs to the very latest research, in addition to discussing the fundamental ideas, and key issues and directions for future research. Topics and features: includes review questions at the end of each chapter; presents a survey of systems for real-time interactive control of automatic expressive music performance, including simulated conducting systems; examines two systems in detail, YQX and IMAP, each providing an example of a very different approach; introduces techniques for synthesizing expressive non-piano performances; addresses the challenges found in polyphonic music expression, from a statistical modelling point of view; discusses the automated analysis of musical structure, and the evaluation of CSEMPs; describes the emerging field of embodied expressive musical performance, devoted to building robots that can expressively perform music with traditional instruments.

Author : Robert Joseph Garofalo,Frank L. Battisti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112057141

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Lead and Inspire by Robert Joseph Garofalo,Frank L. Battisti Pdf

Author : Joseph A. Labuta,Wendy K. Matthews
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000789874

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Basic Conducting Techniques by Joseph A. Labuta,Wendy K. Matthews Pdf

Now in its eighth edition, Basic Conducting Techniques provides a clear and intelligible introduction to the art of conducting an ensemble. It has been updated with a greater diversity of repertoire, including contemporary examples and more music by underrepresented composers. Over the course of 14 chapters, the authors explicate the elements of conducting, supplementing their teachings with an extensive selection of musical examples from the classical repertoire. Practical and innovative, clear and approachable, the book illuminates the essential skills that a beginning conductor should develop in order to lead and rehearse a performing group. The companion website provides scores and transposed parts for all musical excerpts, as well as guitar and piano parts, audio recordings of the excerpts, and updated demonstration videos modeling specific conducting techniques. With the beginning conductor in mind, this hands-on, competency-centered approach is appropriate for mixed classes of choral and instrumental music majors, providing indispensable versatility for students and practicing conductors alike. Utilizing decades of teaching and conducting experience, the eighth edition of Basic Conducting Techniques is the essential guide to the principles of conducting. Note: The paperback edition of this book (ISBN 978-1-032-02497-4) is spiral-bound.

Author : Graham F. Welch,David M. Howard,John Nix
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1200 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-04
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780192576071

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The Oxford Handbook of Singing by Graham F. Welch,David M. Howard,John Nix Pdf

Singing has been a characteristic behaviour of humanity across several millennia. Chorus America (2009) estimated that 42.6 million adults and children regularly sing in one of 270,000 choruses in the US, representing more than 1:5 households. Similarly, recent European-based data suggest that more than 37 million adults take part in group singing. The Oxford Handbook of Singing is a landmark text on this topic. It is a comprehensive resource for anyone who wishes to know more about the pluralistic nature of singing. In part, the narrative adopts a lifespan approach, pre-cradle to senescence, to illustrate that singing is a commonplace behaviour which is an essential characteristic of our humanity. In the overall design of the Handbook, the chapter contents have been clustered into eight main sections, embracing fifty-three chapters by seventy-two authors, drawn from across the world, with each chapter illustrating and illuminating a particular aspect of singing. Offering a multi-disciplinary perspective embracing the arts and humanities, physical, social and clinical sciences, the book will be valuable for a broad audience within those fields.

Author : Edward S. Lisk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Conducting
ISBN : 1574632205

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Lyrical Conducting by Edward S. Lisk Pdf

"The concepts and instructional techniques included prompt new and different considerations for what teachers and conductors of instrumental music must strive for"--P. 4 of cover.

Author : Gary McPherson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190056308

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The Oxford Handbook of Music Performance, Volume 1 by Gary McPherson Pdf

The two-volume Oxford Handbook of Music Performance provides a resource that musicians, scholars and educators will use as the most important and authoritative overview of work within the areas of music psychology and performance science. The 80 experts from 13 countries who prepared the 53 chapters in this handbook are leaders in the fields of music psychology, performance science, musicology, psychology, education and music education. Chapters in the Handbook provide a broad coverage of the area with considerable expansion of the topics that are normally covered in a resource of this type. Designed around eight distinct sections - Development and Learning, Proficiencies, Performance Practices, Psychology, Enhancements, Health & Wellbeing, Science, and Innovations - the range and scope of The Oxford Handbook of Music Performance is much wider than other publications through the inclusion of chapters from related disciplines such as performance science (e.g., optimizing performance, mental techniques, talent development in non-music areas), and education (e.g., human development, motivation, learning and teaching styles) as well as the attention given to emerging critical issues in the field (e.g., wellbeing, technology, gender, diversity, inclusion, identity, resilience and buoyancy, diseases, and physical and mental disabilities). Within each chapter, authors have selected what they consider to be the most important scientific and artistic material relevant to their topic. They begin their chapters by surveying theoretical views on each topic and then, in the final part of the chapter, highlight practical implications of the literature that performers will be able to apply within their daily musical lives.

Author : Gary McPherson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780190056285

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The Oxford Handbook of Music Performance, Volume 1 by Gary McPherson Pdf

The two-volume 'Oxford Handbook of Music Performance' provides the most comprehensive and authoritative resource for musicians, educators and scholars currently available. It is aimed primarily for practicing musicians, particularly those who are preparing for a professional career as performers and are interested in practical implications of psychological and scientific research for their own music performance development; educators with a specific interest or expertise in music psychology, who will wish to apply the concepts and techniques surveyed in their own teaching; undergraduate and postgraduate students who understand the potential of music psychology for informing music education; and researchers in the area of music performance who consider it important for the results of their research to be practically useful for musicians and music educators.

Author : Liz Garnett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351571937

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Choral Conducting and the Construction of Meaning by Liz Garnett Pdf

It is a truism in teaching choral conducting that the director should look like s/he wishes the choir to sound. The conductor's physical demeanour has a direct effect on how the choir sings, at a level that is largely unconscious and involuntary. It is also a matter of simple observation that different choral traditions exhibit not only different styles of vocal production and delivery, but also different gestural vocabularies which are shared not only between conductors within that tradition, but also with the singers. It is as possible to distinguish a gospel choir from a barbershop chorus or a cathedral choir by visual cues alone as it is simply by listening. But how can these forms of physical communication be explained? Do they belong to a pre-cultural realm of primate social bonding, or do they rely on the context and conventions of a particular choral culture? Is body language an inherent part of musical performance styles, or does it come afterwards, in response to music? At a practical level, to what extent can a practitioner from one tradition mandate an approach as 'good practice', and to what extent can another refuse it on the grounds that 'we don't do it that way'? This book explores these questions at both theoretical and practical levels. It examines textual and ethnographic sources, and draws on theories from critical musicology and nonverbal communication studies to analyse them. By comparing a variety of choral traditions, it investigates the extent to which the connections between conductor demeanour and choral sound operate at a general level, and in what ways they are constructed within a specific idiom. Its findings will be of interest both to those engaged in the study of music as a cultural practice, and to practitioners involved in a choral conducting context that increasingly demands fluency in a variety of styles.

Author : MarveleneC. Moore
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 823 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351570541

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Critical Essays in Music Education by MarveleneC. Moore Pdf

This volume of essays references traditional and contemporary thought on theory and practice in music education for all age groups, from the very young to the elderly. The material spans a broad range of subject areas from history and philosophy to art and music, and addresses issues such as curriculum, pedagogy, assessment and evaluation, as well as current issues in technology and performance standards. Written by leading researchers and educators from diverse countries and cultures, this selection of previously published articles, research studies and book chapters is representative of the most frequently discussed and debated topics in the profession. This volume, which documents the importance of lifelong learning, is an indispensable reference work for specialists in the field of music education.

Author : Alexander Refsum Jensenius
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031578922

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Sonic Design by Alexander Refsum Jensenius Pdf