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Basic Conducting Techniques (5th Edition) | 
 enlarge | Author: Joseph A. Labuta
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Category: Book
List Price: $104.40
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 260275
Media: Spiral-bound
Edition: 5th
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 11 x 9 x 0.7
ISBN: 0131121081
Dewey Decimal Number: 781.45
EAN: 9780131121089
ASIN: 0131121081
Publication Date: June 21, 2003
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Product Description
This competency-based workbook provides sound and practical hands-on procedures for beginning and advanced conducting enthusiasts. It features a broad repertory of musical excerpts, and—since most are reduced to a four-part format—users can practice conducting skills and rehearsal techniques readily. The workbook promotes self-directed learning by challenging users to attempt conducting techniques as they arise in the music. The workbook details conducting techniques including the baton, beat patterns, fractional beat preparations, the fermata, asymmetrical and changing meters, tempo changes and accompanying. It also outlines score preparation and rehearsal technique and provides musical excerpts. For individuals interested in learning the finer points of musical conducting.
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There are better book on conducting. August 25, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Informative value: 2 out of 5
Musical 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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