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xlii, 893 pages : illustrations, music, portraits ; 26 cm |
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26 cm |
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Cover title: The history of orchestral conducting : theory and practice. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 847-868) and index. |
| Contents |
The temporal and textural background: Perspectives of time and texture. Rhythm, the heartbeat of conducting ; Instruments, the soul of the orchestra -- Orchestration : expressive and structural colorism. Orchestration before Beethoven ; From Beethoven to Berlioz ; From Wagner to Mahler ; Schoenberg, Debussy, and after -- Instrumental distributions and orchestral dispositions. Instrumentation of selected orchestral works since 1764 ; Instrumental dispositions in selected orchestras since 1768. |
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Theory of an emerging art: Time-beating : general descriptions and definitions. Rousseau to Castil-Blaze ; Koch and Dommer ; Grassineau, Busby and Moore -- From time-beating to conducting : procedures described in specialized sources from earliest times to Berlioz. Cheironomy and Tactus ; Metrical time-beating from Pia to Marpurg ; L'art du chef d'orchestra -- After Berlioz : nineteenth-century sources, general and specialized. Stainer and Barrett to Riemann ; Wagner ; Blitz ; Schröder ; Weingartner -- Technical treatises in the twentieth century. Scherchen ; Rudolf ; Grosbayne ; Prausnitz. |
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The art of conducting in practice: Transitional practices before baton direction. Audible time-beating ; Divided leadership ; Unified direction : (in Germany and France) -- The rising eminence of the baton conductor. The baton ; "Triumph" of the baton ; Weber ; Mendelssohn ; Additional considerations on the baton and its use ; Conducting from memory ; The editing of scores -- Beethoven, Berlioz and Wagner as conductors. Beethoven ; Berlioz ; Wagner -- After Wagner : Bülow, Richter, and Mahler, Nikisch, Toscanini, and Furtwängler -- Stokowski and Koussevitzky, Karajan and Bernstein -- Conclusion. |
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Appendices: First page of Messiaen's Les offrandes oubliées, with time-beating diagrams ; Notes on Stockhausen's Zeitmasse, by Robert Craft ; Rudolf, performance markings for the first violin part of Mozart's Symphony no. 35 in D major, K. 385 ; Prausnitz, instructions for conducting L'après-midi d'un faune ; Philharmonic Society of London, 1832 season ; ICSOM conductor evaluation form. |
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Conducting.
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Conducting. (OCoLC)fst00874582
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| ISBN |
0918728444 |
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9780918728449 |
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0918728479 (jacket) |
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9780918728470 (jacket) |
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