Gustav Meier (Director of the Graduate Conducting Program at the Pe

The Score, the Orchestra, and the Conductor

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Internationally-renowned conducting teacher Gustav Meier presents here his practical approach to preparing an orchestral score for rehearsal and performance for the first time in book form. Well-illustrated with numerous music examples, charts, figures, and tables, Meier's methods ¿ grounded in the rich body of his collected experience as a music director and teacher of conducting students ¿ are explained here in great detail.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 255mm x 179mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 954g
• ISBN-13: 9780195326369
• ISBN-10: 0195326369
• Artikelnr.: 27348037

Autorenporträt

Gustav Meier is Music Director of the Greater Lansing and Bridgeport Symphony Orchestras and Director of the Graduate Conducting Program at the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University. He makes regular appearances as guest conductor in Europe, South and Central America, China, Canada, and throughout the United States.

Inhaltsangabe

. 1.: Introduction
2.: The Beat
3.: Reading the Score
4.: Preparation of the Score for Conducting
5.: Seating Arrangements: Symbols for a Cuing System
6.: Sorting the Orchestration
7.: The Zig-Zig Way
8.: Special Techniques
9.: Additional Concerns
Appendices:
A) Instrumental Chart
B) Notation of Instruments
C) Harmonics
D) Harmonic Charts
E) Cross Rhythm Charts