For one/two-semester junior-level conducting courses in department of Music.
Designed for use with mixed classes of instrumental and choral music majors, this competency-based student workbook provides sound and practical hands-on procedures for beginning and advanced conducting students. It features a broad repertory of musical excerpts, and-since most are reduced to a four-part format-students can practice conducting skills and rehearsal techniques at each class meeting. The workbook promotes self-directed learning by challenging students to attempt conducting techniques as they arise in the music.
Provides students with transposed parts to minimize performance problems and save rehearsal time, so that they can focus on the specific conducting techniques to be mastered.
Enables students to prepare themselves to take charge of the class performing group, so they can conduct and rehearse the assigned excerpts and other scores.
Guides students' conducting, practicing, interpreting and rehearsing and helps them integrate conducting techniques as they arise.
Challenges students and provides extra incentive with longer and more complete excerpts.
Provides students with greater visual clarity and accuracy of many of the techniques they are to master.
Presents students with valid musical examples-not contrived drill exercises-that present the problems they must master to develop their conducting skills.
Motivates students and helps them develop independence by challenging them to attempt interpretive conducting techniques as they arise in the music, even before they are encountered in later chapters.
Introduces students to instrumental conducting for prospective choral directors and choral conducting for prospective instrumental directors. Such versatility can be a great advantage to the student pursuing a music teaching career.
Provides students with focus and guides their learning with clearly stated course objectives.
Provides students with a basis for self-evaluation and immediate feedback.
Motivates and holds students' interest by requiring them to tackle problems they'll encounter in real experiences.
Provides instructors with a clearly stated lesson plan and encourages students in self-paced learning and self-evaluation.
The Fifth Edition of Basic Conducting Techniques provides sound, practical, hands-on procedures, techniques, guidance, and materials for the beginning conducting class. Joseph A. Labuta, an experienced musician and educator, employs a broad repertory of musical excerpts and scores, most reduced to four-part format, which enables students to work with an ensemble of class members to practice conducting and rehearsal techniques at each class meeting.
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