Conducting And Rehearsing The Instrumental Music Ensemble

"The most comprehensive guide on the rehearsal process for conducting instrumental music ensembles. This work breaks the multidimensional activity of working with an ensemble, orchestra, or band into its constituent components"--from publisher description.

Following on the heels of his Conducting and Rehearsing the Instrumental Music Ensemble, John F. Colson takes students to the next level in conducting practice with Rehearsing: Critical Connections for the Instrumental Music Conductor. Colson draws together the critical connections for those seeking to become fully capable and self-assured instrumental music conductors. As he argues, too often conductor training programs treat the problems and challenges of the rehearsal—perhaps the single most critical element in any effort to achieve competency as a conductor—as secondary. Colson supplies the missing link for conductors looking for advice that allows them to complete their training for reaching complete competency as a conductor. He demonstrates throughout the specific connections that the advanced conductor must know and regularly employ—connections that few, if any, other works on the art of conducting address or bring together. One connection, for example, illustrates the joining of music imagery, inner singing, and conducting technique to score study. Throughout, these connections describe the nitty-gritty of what it really takes to stand up in front of an instrumental music ensemble and successfully rehearse in order to achieve its highest performance level. Also, Colson argues and demonstrates the pitfalls of the commonly mistaken assumption among instrumental music conductors that score study alone is sufficient to prepare them for the rehearsal process. This grave error is regularly belied by the fact that a number of other steps precede the actual rehearsal process, from the use of instrumental pedagogy during the rehearsal process to teaching through performance concepts. Colson’s work addresses the entire rehearsing process thoroughly and authoritatively.

For conductors of wind ensembles grades 4 (high school), 5 (advanced high school), and 6 (college/professional), this book brings together pragmatic advice and knowledge from practicing conductors from all over the United States. Each chapter is by the practicing conductor each addressing the same subjects as they pertain to rehearsing a wind ensemble. In addition, each contributor recommends a list of the 30 best works for each of the levels of band from each conductor compiled in the appendix.

Surveys large choral-orchestral works written between 1900 and 1972 that contain some English text. Green examines eighty-nine works by forty-nine composers, from Elgar's Dream of Gerontius to Bernstein's Mass.

Teaching Music With Passion is a one-of-a-kind, collective masterpiece of thoughts, ideas and suggestions that will surely change the way you teach. Filled with personal experiences, anecdotes and wonderful quotations, this book is an easy-to-read, must-read treasure! -- Back cover.

(Meredith Music Resource). This text is sure to provide the most practical approach to orchestra and wind band score study ever published. It methodically simplifies preliminary score study and initial rehearsal preparation for all conductors of band, orchestra and chamber ensembles. It is enormously valuable for practicing conductors from elementary school to those leading professional ensembles. As a supplement to undergraduate and graduate level instrumental conducting classes, it is an extremely effective text. The unique features of this innovative publication include: * an easy-to-read format that systematically walks the reader through the entire score-study process * complete full score to Flourish for Wind Band by Vaughan Williams used as the study score throughout * compositional flowchart of the Vaughan Williams work * Score and Rehearsal Preparation Worksheet that can be reproduced and used with any wind band or orchestral score (and maintained for future use) * seating-arrangement diagrams of nationally renown wind bands and orchestras * comprehensive glossary of standard instrument abbreviations * standard band and orchestra instrumentation reference chart * selective and detailed bibliography containing specific sources that will prove invaluable in the preparation of all instrumental scores.