Learning and Teaching Conducting through Musical and Non-Musical Skills: An Evaluation of Orchestral Conducting Teaching Methods

The current state of conducting as an academic and professional pursuit shows a plethora of conventional traditions and techniques that are accepted without question, but a dearth of ideas and approaches that will develop the skills essential to producing an effective conductor. This profile is espe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brandao, Jose Mauricio Valle
Other Authors: McFarland, Alison
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: LSU 2011
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Online Access:http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-06082011-160513/
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Summary:The current state of conducting as an academic and professional pursuit shows a plethora of conventional traditions and techniques that are accepted without question, but a dearth of ideas and approaches that will develop the skills essential to producing an effective conductor. This profile is especially apparent in the fields literature. This monograph will compile a list of these titles and annotate each one, in order to determine the common threads that run between them. This information will be distilled into categories, identifying levels of approach and target audience. Evaluation of these data may lead to a discovery that many of them are derivative of the others rather than being products of original thinking. This research will support or reject the notion that the methods used for teaching orchestral conducting are complete and sufficient.