Details

Subject(s)

• Conducting [Browse]
• Quartets (Unspecified instruments (4))—Scores [Browse]
• Music—Textbooks [Browse]

Editor

• Caldwell, Jonathan [Browse]
• Shapiro, Derek [Browse]

Summary note

Original Études for the Developing Conductor is a collection of supplemental études designed to enhance contemporary conducting pedagogy by amplifying the voices of composers from historically excluded groups. Each étude was commissioned from and composed by a living composer, the majority of whom are woman-identifying composers and/or composers of color. Each étude also addresses multiple specific pedagogical goals common to all conducting classrooms.Conducting textbooks commonly include musical examples to expose student conductors to various musical challenges and situations. However, due to the relative ease of using only music from the public domain, most examples found in commercially published books are excerpts of larger works composed by deceased cisgender white men of European descent. Often, this music bears little relation to a significant portion of the music contemporary students engage with and perform. These excerpts also tend to be quite short (i.e., less than a minute) and do not create cohesive, self-contained musical arcs.

Notes

Studies for four unspecified instruments in soprano, alto, tenor, and bass ranges for use by conducting students.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The jester-- Swirl-- Vespers : (walking in beauty)-- Lyrah-- Saunter-- Tarantella-- Choppy frontier-- Ban : (beat)-- Native American etude-- Bulletproof-- Fanfare with afterimages-- Tumbao pesante-- Legend of the moonlight above-- Offbeat-- Addolcimento : (sweetly, softening)-- Festive fugue-- Etude for conductors-- Estudio a cuatro voces-- Pony Hollow Trail-- Keepsake-- Loose canon-- Last waltz in Paris-- Fortress-- Moonrise-- Reverie

ISBN

• 1-957213-51-5
• 9781957213514

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