A Practical Guide to Choral Conducting
- Author: Rosenbaum, Harold
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Contents
- Part 1: Leadership, Logistics, and Decision Making
- 1. Responsibilities and Opportunities
- 2. Recruiting, Auditioning, and Assessing
- 3. Choosing and Learning Repertoire
- 4. Common Conductor Problems and How to Avoid or Fix Them
- 5. The Importance of Acquiring a Solid Conducting Technique
- 6. Logistics: Arranging your Singers and Placing your Choir
- 7. Running Rehearsals
- 8. Achieving a Better Choral Sound
- 9. Special Choral Concepts and Techniques
- 10. Collaborating with Other Performers
- 11. Collaborating With, and Supporting Composers
- 12. Concerts and Venues
- 13. The Concert Experience - Directing and Savoring
- 14. Choral Tours
- 15. Making a Recording
- 16. Breaking Rules: When and Why It Is Acceptable
- 17. The World of Professional Choristers - An Inside Look at The New York Virtuoso Singers
- 18. Performing Modern Music
- 19. Final Thoughts
- Part 2: Anthology
- Appendix 1: Interpreting Johann Sebastian Bach's: Matthaus-Passion (St. Matthew Passion) (Barenreiter edition)
- Appendix 2: Interpreting Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Requiem
- Appendix 3: Executing Fermatas in Haydn's Die Schoepfung (The Creation) (Oxford University Press edition)
- Appendix 4: Interpreting Giuseppe Verdi's Messa da Requiem (Edition Peters Nr. 4250 or Dover Publications).
- Index