Music-Instruction & Study-Conducting

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...

Sheet Music Composer Sergei Rachmaninoff6 Moments Musicals Op.16 Andantino in B flat minor Op.16, no.1 Allegretto in e flat minor Op.16, no.2 Andante Cantabile in B minor Op.16, no.3 Presto in E minor Op.16, no.4 Adagio Sostenuto in D flat major Op.16, no.5 Maestoso...

Preparing our minds for rehearsal, listening to our singers, and making those moments last, choir directors have a complex job getting ready for concerts. How do we approach concert day? What is the spirit of the choir? How are final rehearsals different? In this...

New, digitally-enhanced reprint of the full score issued by Boosey & Co., London in 1901, the same year Elgar conducted the world premiere of this sparkling concert overture. Sometimes known as "In London Town", the Cockaigne Overture has been an audience favorite ever since....

Sheet Music All 24 Prelude and Fugue, from #1 to #24Composer Joann Sebastian Bach1. Prelude and Fugue in C major BWV 8462. Prelude and Fugue in C minor BWV 8473. Prelude and Fugue in C# major BWV 8484. Prelude and Fugue in C# minor...

Author: Malcolm H. HolmesISBN-10: 1258083280ISBN-13: 9781258083281Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/12/2011Pages: 142Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.50d

Letters to a Young Conductor: Thoughts on Music and Life is written with a younger version of myself in mind. Over four sections, "Mindset," "In Rehearsal," "In Concert," and "Building A Career," I offer the advice I wish I had listened to when I...

Herman Scherchen (1891-1966), the distinguished German conductor, was largely self-taught in music. He played the viola in the Berlin Philharmonic (1907-10) and in 1918 founded the Neue Musikgesellschaft in Berlin. He was an ardent champion of twentieth-century music, especially that of Schoenberg, with whom...

Borodin started work on his second symphony soon after the 1869 premiere of his first. He worked on it off and on until 1876, putting it aside for another project - misplacing his orchestral scores of the first and last movements in the process....

In Rehearsing: Critical Connections for the Instrumental Music Conductor, Colson supplies the missing link for conductors looking for advice that allows them to complete their training for reaching complete competency as a conductor.Author: John F. ColsonISBN-10: 144225078XISBN-13: 9781442250789Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/09/2015Pages:...

A lightning rod for powerful emotions, Thomas Schippers began his escalation to fame at nineteen continuing with performances in many renowned venues in the world. Here his career is traced through the accounts of those who knew or performed with him, redressing the astonishing...

Brahms Among Friends identifies patterns of listening, performance, and composition among close friends of Johannes Brahms and explores how those patterns informed the creation and reception of his music in the intimate genres of song, sonata, trio, and piano miniature. Among the tangled threads...

Sheet Music Piano Sonatas Volume 1, from 1 to 9Composer Wolfang Amadeus Mozart W.A. Mozart Piano Sonata No.1 in C major, K.279/189d W.A. Mozart Piano Sonata No.2 in F major, K.280/189e W.A. Mozart Piano Sonata No.3 in B-flat major, K.281/189f W.A. Mozart Piano Sonata...

Carlos Kleiber (1930-2004) was the greatest conductor of his generation. His reputation is legendary, and yet astonishingly, in his five decades on the podium, he conducted only 89 concerts, some 600 opera performances, and produced 12 recordings. How did someone who worked so little...

Musical leadership is associated with a specific profession--the conductor--as well as being a colloquial metaphor for human communication and cooperation at its best. This book examines what musical leadership is, by delving into the choral conductor role, what goes on in the music-making moment...

This book examines the conductor's methods in terms of the realization of expressive potential in a selected body of works. This examination encompasses analytical, technical, and expressive gestural aspects of the art and craft of conducting. The author also discusses the idea of meaning...

Sheet Music Piano Sonatas Volume 2, from 10 to 18Composer Wolfang Amadeus MozartContent: Piano Sonata No.10 in C major, K.330/300hPiano Sonata No.11 in A major, K.331/300iPiano Sonata No.12 in F major, K.332/300kPiano Sonata No.13 in B-flat major, K.333/315cPiano Sonata No.14 in C minor, K.457Piano...

Carlos Kleiber (1930-2004) was the greatest conductor of his generation. His reputation is legendary, and yet astonishingly, in his five decades on the podium, he conducted only 89 concerts, some 600 opera performances, and produced 12 recordings. How did someone who worked so little...

The book is intended to help new and veteran band directors develop an orchestra in their school. It outlines step by step what needs to be done before the teacher meets students, preparing for the first rehearsal and first performance, developing syllabi, handbooks and...

Composed in 1869 for the Vienna Men's Choral Association, Strauss' Opus 333 originally included parts for men's chorus. It has since become far more popular in the version he prepared afterward for orchestra only, which is the one presented here in a beautifully engraved...