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Conducting for a New Era

Conducting for a New Era

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Conducting

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ISBN10: 1843838028
ISBN13: 9781843838029
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: Oct 16 2014
Pages: 236
Weight: 1.80
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.60 Depth: 9.70
Language: English
A guide to the art of conducting in the twenty-first century, by the founder of the RCM's Twentieth Century Ensemble.

Conducting for a New Era fills in a lacuna by offering guidance and practical advice for conducting twentieth-century and contemporary repertoire. The book begins with a look at the development of the art of conducting during the first half of the twentieth century. Distinctions are made between conductors who pursued populist careers and those who established the foundations for the new art form of the twenty-first century. The book goes on to discuss the technical resources required to negotiate the rhythmic complexity of so much music composed since 1950. Beginning with the rhythmic revolution created by Stravinsky in Le Sacre du Printemps (in which conducting unequal units within single bars was introduced), ten different categories of music are featured in an analysis of the technical and aesthetic characteristics involved.

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