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.
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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.
Features:- Along with each carefully selected example from music literature are specific instructions keyed to the text, identifying conducting problems the student must master to develop conducting skills.
- Excerpts include orchestral materials, band scores, as well as choral music excerpts, choral scores, and choral rehearsal techniques.
- Modular format for self-paced learning; provisions for ongoing student evaluation, including rating scales, checklists, and analytical guides.
- Alternate approaches for use of the materials provided to the instructor.
- Transposed parts for the musical excerpts in Part III.
- Examples of score analysis for students to use as models.
- More detail and elaboration of instruction preceding the excerpts.
- A Mastery section for challenge and evaluation.
- Additional photographs to clarify and model techniques.
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Basic Conducting Techniques is a practical and innovative textbook that provides sound, time-tested procedures and materials for the beginning conducting class. It features a broad repertory of musical excerpts and scores from the standard literature, more varied selections for class use than any other available source. Students and instructors have responded enthusiastically to the hands-on, conductor-competency approach of this student-oriented textbook with its clearly stated outcomes and performance tests for student guidance, actual conducting activities for student learning, and varied musical examples for students to study, practice, conduct, and rehearse. Since most excerpts are reduced to a four-part score format, students are able to work with an ensemble of class members and can practice conducting skills and rehearsal techniques at each class meeting. Thus, the book fulfills several major needs for teaching conducting in the classroom setting. The student can study the text material and scores, and conduct a live performing group using valid music. The musical excerpts consist of carefully selected examples from the standard repertory which illustrate the conducting and rehearsal problems that students must solve to develop conducting skills.
The fifth edition contains several new features to facilitate use of text material: transposed parts for the musical excerpts in Part III; examples of score analysis for students to use as models; more detail and elaboration of instruction preceding the excerpts; a "Mastery" section for challenge and evaluation; and additional photographs to clarify and model techniques.
Transpositions for B-flat, F, and E-flat instruments are included with the orchestral excerpts that are keyed to the chapters. Transposed parts minimize performance problems and save rehearsal time in classes of mixed instrumentation so that instruction can focus on the specific conducting techniques to be mastered.
Chapter 12 contains complete examples of scores analyzed and prepared by conductors with the "Three Basic Steps" of score preparation. Using these examples as models, students can prepare themselves to take charge of the class performing group and lead them through the assigned excerpts anal other scores they may conduct.
The specific instructions that precede every excerpt in Part III help students integrate conducting techniques as they arise in the music they are conducting, regardless of the specific focus of the chapter they are studying. For example, the study of left-hand technique is the principal topic of Chapter 9; however, students should begin to use their left hand for signaling dynamic changes as early as the first excerpt in Chapter 2. Although the purpose of the learning modules as originally conceived was to focus on a specific area of technique to be mastered, the intent was never to exclude any techniques specific to the actual music studied and conducted. Research and experience confirm that no one sequence of materials as presented in a textbook works for all students. The sequence may appear logical to some author, but students' backgrounds and experiences differ. The professional teacher/model remains the critical element in class organization and sequence. In this workbook, students can start using appropriate conducting techniques as they arise in the musical excerpts and as their competence increases. The detailed suggestions and directions for excerpts are cross referenced to the chapters to guide students' conducting, practicing, interpreting, and rehearsing.
A new "Mastery" section for score analysis (Chapter 12) and rehearsal technique (Chapters 13 and 14) has been added. Some of the longer and more complete excerpts have been moved to this section to challenge students and provide extra incentive. These excerpts can be used by the instructor to evaluate student progress and assign extra credit.
New photographs depict with greater clarity and accuracy many of the techniques the students are to master. The photographs serve to supplement the instructor's important role as a model for learning.
This text is appropriate for mixed classes of choral and instrumental music majors. It contains musical excerpts, complete scores, and rehearsal techniques for both instrumental and choral groups. Thus, it introduces instrumental conducting to prospective choral directors, and choral conducting to prospective instrumental directors. Such versatility can be a great advantage when pursuing music teaching positions.
The book also provides an excellent review of conducting techniques for graduate students and practicing conductors.
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Joseph A. Labuta is Professor Emeritus of Music and former Associate Chair of the Music Department and Director of Music Education At Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan where he taught graduate and undergraduate courses in music education and conducting. He also served as a conductor of bands, orchestras, and choirs at the public school and college levels. Labuta earned a BME degree from Central College (MO) and an ME in Music Education from the University of Missouri. He was appointed Fellow in Music at the University of Illinois and completed his doctorate there in 1965. He has been a teacher of conducting at the university level since 1963 and has lectured, led workshops, and written extensively on conducting bands and orchestras. The 6th edition of his conducting text, Basic Conducting Techniques, first published in 1982, was released by Prentice Hall in 2010. His first book, Teaching Musicianship in the High School Band, is a seminal work that has been widely used and acclaimed by band directors. Joe and his wife, Mary, founded the Saline (MI) New Horizons Band in 2004. He has conducted at NHB camps in Interlochen amd Chautauqua.
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This review is from: Basic Conducting Techniques (5th Edition) (Spiral-bound)
Informative value: 2 out of 5Musical excerpts help improve this otherwise over priced text. You can easily find books that are much more helpful than this one. Brock McElheran's Conducting technique for beginners is much more relevant and informative, not to mention way cheaper. Anything by Elizabeth Green would also be great. I believe the problem with the book is that it relies too much on defining gesture. Whenever gesture rather than music is the source of information for your conducting, you will have problems. The irony is that people (conductors and performers alike) become so concerned with maintaining a clear beat pattern and that everything is 'correct' that they disregard the music. One good thing in the book is the large number of musical examples and excerpts. Over half of the book is dedicated to excerpts of good music that present a variety of challenges. This does raise one large question, though. Why not just have the students buy the McElheran and use scores that they bought and can later use in their own classroom or with their own ensemble? It seems that many people find the collection of excerpts helpful, though. It would be ridiculous to require students to buy even half of the score that are represented in this book. The challenge in writing a text on conducting is that it needs to be helpful to all sorts of people. Different people will need different help, and the book attempts to cater to this variety. However, Labuta's attempt to inform the least knowledgeable people brings the level of the book so far down that it looses meaning after you can conduct a six pattern.
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