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1	Conducting Technique for Beginners and Professionals more books like this by Brock McElheran add to wishlist Conducting Technique has been accepted as a standard text for both choral and orchestral conducting courses taught at universities, colleges, and conservatories throughout the English-speaking world. For this revised edition the author has made a number of corrections and additions, including a new preface. see all copies from $4.60! new only from $18.43! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Modern Conductor more books like this by Elizabeth A H Green add to wishlist For junior- to graduate-level courses in Introduction to Conducting (advanced techniques included), Band, Orchestra, Chorus. Requires background in Music Theory, Music History, and Music Analysis. Building upon a classic conducting text, this edition updates references and expands sections to provide students with more comprehensive explanations ... see all copies from $2.99! new only from $89.77! \| SVS
3	Conducting Choral Music more books like this by Robert L. Garretson add to wishlist For courses in Choral Conducting, Choral Methods and Techniques, and Secondary School Choral Music. America's best selling text on Choral Conducting was initially based upon actual research, i.e., a survey of numerous choral conductors to identify specific problems that they currently encountered and the extent to which they felt they were ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.33! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Art of Conducting more books like this by Donald Hunsberger add to wishlist This text contains practical instruction in choral and instrumental conducting, for both beginning and intermediate students, along with a large selection of scores for classroom practice. see all copies from $25.00! new only from $76.62! \| first editions
5	The Maestro Myth: Great Conductors in Pursuit of Power more books like this by Norman Lebrecht add to wishlist This book debunks today's largely uncritical view of the conductor's role, taking to task the over-paid, over-praised and self-inflated men and women who have mounted the conductor's podium since the turn of the century. Few top conductors escape unscathed: Lebrecht is tireless in his exposure of Machiavellian shennanigans, professional rivalry, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $53.45! \| first editions
6	The Grammar of Conducting: A Comprehensive Guide to Baton Technique and Interpretation more books like this by Max Rudolf, Michael Stern (Designer) add to wishlist Providing an introduction to the techniques and practical concerns of leading an orchestra, this text proceeds from the basic conducting patterns to explorations of performance practice issues and rehearsal techniques. see all copies from $26.00! new only from $88.35! \| first editions
7	Basic Conducting Techniques more books like this by Joseph A Labuta add to wishlist For one/two-semester junior-level conducting courses in department of Music. Designed for use with mixed classes of instrumental and choral music majors, this competency-based student workbook provides sound and practical hands-on procedures for beginning and advanced conducting students. It features a broad repertory of musical excerpts, and ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $49.00! \| SVS
8	Conducting -- A Hands-On Approach more books like this by Anthony Maiello (Composer), Jack Bullock add to wishlist This comprehensive text by Anthony Maiello on the art of conducting is designed to be hands on, user friendly, playable by any instrumentation, a step-by-step approach to baton technique, great for use with a wind, string or voice conducting class, and excellent as a refresher course for all conductors at all levels of ability. The 232-page book ... see all copies from $28.36! new only from $28.36! \| SVS
9	The Modern Conductor: A College Text on Conducting Based on the Technical Principles of Nicolai Malko as Set Forth in His the Conductor and His Baton more books like this by Elizabeth A H Green add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.99! \| first editions
10	The Compleat Conductor more books like this by Gunther Schuller add to wishlist Gunther Schuller is one of America's leading contemporary composers, conductors, and musicologists. He has become increasingly dismayed about the way contemporary orchestra leaders have been ignoring the composer's intentions in playing the basic concert repertory from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. In this controversial new book, ... see all copies from $9.37! new only from $24.92! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Basic Techniques of Conducting more books like this by Kenneth H Phillips add to wishlist This introduction to conducting method, appropriate for vocal and instumental conducting students, is organized to establish essential conducting skills in a developmental sequence. The book contains 30 content lessons, guided practice outlines, ten videotaping sessions with evaluation forms for each taped session, assignments at the end of each ... see all copies from $30.44! new only from $65.55! \| SVS
12 view cover	Simon Rattle: From Birmingham to Berlin more books like this by Nicholas Kenyon add to wishlist The most brilliant British conductor of his generation, Simon Rattle has brought thrilling music-making to audiences around the world. Still in his mid-forties, Rattle becomes Music Director of the Berlin Philharmonic in 2002. What is the secret of his success, which has propelled him from being a Liverpool schoolboy with a fierce enthusiasm for ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.98! \| first editions
13 view cover	Lifeline for Children's Choir Directors more books like this by Jean Bartle add to wishlist A repertoire resource textbook for building children's choirs. Lifeline for Children's Choir Directors offers extensive repertoire lists as well as perceptive text from one of the foremost experts in the field of children's choir. A useful tool for school, community and church-based groups. see all copies from $21.43! new only from $21.43!
14 view cover	Comprehensive Choral Music Education more books like this by John B Hylton add to wishlist This text covers rehearsal techniques, conducting, development of choral tone, selection of music, diction, administration of choral programs as well as junior high and middle school concerns, and provides strategies for comprehensive, aesthetic education through choral music. see all copies from $69.68! new only from $121.15!
15	Choral Conducting: A Symposium more books like this by Harold A. Decker (Editor), Julius Herford (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $6.00! first editions
16 view cover	Handbook of conducting more books like this by Hermann Scherchen add to wishlist The distinguished German conductor Hermann Scherchen, 1891-1966, became a legend in his own time as a supremely knowledgeable, inspiring, and uncompromising advocate of the most demanding orchestral repertoire. The founder of the Berlin Society of New Music, he was an ardent champion of twentieth-century music, especially that of Schoenberg, with ... see all copies from $16.00! new only from $31.30! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The Armchair Conductor: How to Lead a Symphony Orchestra in the Privacy of Your Own Home more books like this by Dan Carlinsky, Ed Goodgold add to wishlist Provides a crash course in conducting, showing would-be conductors: how to stop and start an orchestra, and what to do in-between; what to do if you mess up; why conducting is good for your health; what to do if you lose your baton; and how to pronounce Mstislav Rostropovich. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $27.36!
18 view cover	The Robert Shaw Reader more books like this by Robert Shaw, Robert Blocker, Dean (Editor) add to wishlist Robert Shaw is considered to be the most influential choral conductor in American history. This is the first collection of his letters and notes about music ever published - at another time, it is the book Shaw would have written himself. The letters are an invigorating mix of music history and analysis, philosophy, inspiration, and practical ... see all copies from $37.25! new only from $37.25!
19	The Orchestra Speaks more books like this by Bernard Shore add to wishlist see all copies from $11.99! first editions
20 view cover	Learning to Conduct and Rehearse more books like this by Daniel L Kohut, Joe W Grant add to wishlist An introductory conducting text stressing baton technique, score preparation and special emphasis on rehearsal. Will also include musical excerpts for both choral and instrumental. see all copies from $32.12! new only from $72.34! \| SVS
21 view cover	Conducting: The Art of Communication more books like this by Wayne Bailey add to wishlist Conducting: The Art of Communication provides the most comprehensive treatment available of all aspects of instrumental conducting: technical, analytical, and expressive. Extending beyond the strictly technical coverage of other books, this unique text can be used in both one-semester courses and in two-semester sequences that include advanced ... see all copies from $32.16! new only from $48.45!
22 view cover	Choral Techniques more books like this by Gordon H Lamb add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $49.99! \| SVS
23	The Dynamic Choral Conductor more books like this by Royal Stanton add to wishlist see all copies from $4.86! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
24	The Conductor and His Score more books like this by Elizabeth A H Green add to wishlist see all copies from $98.22!
25 view cover	Choral Conducting Symposium more books like this by Harold A Decker, Heinz Decker, G Herford add to wishlist see all copies from $42.49! new only from $67.77! \| first editions

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