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Conducting Bibliography |
I have attended numerous workshops on conducting. At one workshop, Dr. Marvin Rabin handed out his list of books that every conductor should have. I purchased as many of those as I could find and started adding more books to his list. In working with Dr. Rabin over the past five years, I have shared many of the book ideas with him and the following list is the result of that collaboration. The books are listed in strict bibliographic order -- by author -- as it is difficult to predict what books you will need and in what order. The topics run the gamut of music, from technique to interpretation, from terms to instrumentation, from theory to practice. I hope you find a book that will help your understanding of your function on the podium as well as in the classroom. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.
Jeff Jacobsen
Director of Orchestral Studies
Stephen F. Austin State University
Box 13042 - SFA Station
Nacogdoches, TX 75962-3043
(936) 468-4602
| Teaching
Music Through Performance in Orchestra
Allen, Bergonzi, Dillon, Gillespie, Kjelland and Straub Wingert-Jones Music, Kansas City (2001) |
A Practical Guide to Percussion
Terminology Russ Girsberger Meredith Music Publications, Ft. Lauderdale (1998) |
| Musician's
Handbook of Foreign Terms Christine Ammer Schirmer Books, New York (1971) |
The
Conductor and His Score Elizabeth A. H. Green, and Nicolai Malko Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ (1975) |
| The A to Z
of Foreign Musical Terms Christine Ammer Schirmer, Boston (1989) |
The Modern Conductor Elizabeth A. H. Green Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ (1981) |
| Harvard
Dictionary of Music Willi Appel Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA |
Elementary Training for Musicians Paul Hindemith Schott, New York (1949) |
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Instrumentation/Orchestration
Alfred Blatter Longman, New York & London (1980) |
The Technique of Orchestration Kennan & Grantham Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ (1983) |
| Performance Times of Orchestral
Works Aronowsky Ernest Bresin, Ltd., London (1959) |
The Conductor's Role (3rd
Ed.) John Koshak Chapman University |
| A Performers Guide to Musical
Expression and Interpretation Donald Barra Prentice Hall (1983) |
Orchestral Accents Richard Korn Farrar, Strauss-Cudahy, New York (1956) |
| 20th Century Score Reading Malcolm Barry and Roger Parker Oxford University Press |
Orchestral Performance Practices
in the 19th Century
Daniel Koury VMI Research Press, Ann Arbor, MI (1986) |
| Casals and the Art of Interpretation
David Blum University of California Press, Berkley, CA (1977) |
Basic Conducting Techniques Joseph A. Labuta Prentice Hall, Inc. Englewood Cliffs, NJ (1982) |
| Harmony: Baroque to Contemporary
- Part I R. Evan Copley Stipes, Champaign, Illinois (1978) |
Guidelines for Style Analysis
Jan LaRue W.W.Norton, New York (1970) |
|
Harmony: Baroque to Contemporary
- Part II R. Evan Copley Stipes, Champaign, Illinois (1979) |
Conductor's Corner Series
from the Instrumentalist Magazine Robert G. Laycock, ed The Instrumentalist, 200 Northfield Road, Northfield, IL 60093 |
| Orchestra Music Handbook
David Daniels Scarecrow Press |
The Composer's Advocate
Erich Leinsdorf Yale University Press, New Haven, CT (1981) |
| Anatomy of the Orchestra
Norman Del Mar University of California Press, Berkley, CA (1983) |
On Music Erich Leinsdorf Amadeus Press, Portland, OR (1997) |
| The Anchor Companion to the
Orchestra Norman Del Mar Anchor Press/Doubleday, New York (1987) |
Ensemble -- A Rehearsal Guide
to Great Chamber Music Abraham Loft Amadeus Press, Portland, OR (1992) |
| Orchestral Variations
Norman Del Mar Eulenberg Books, London (1981) |
Conducting: A Hands On Approach Anthony Maiello Belwin Mills Warner Bros., Miami (1996) |
| Conducting Beethoven, Vol.
1 & 2 Norman Del Mar Clarendon Press, Oxford (1992) |
The Symphony and the Symphonic
Poem Moore & Heger Ulrich's Books, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI 48104 (1974) |
| The Complete Conductor
Robert W. Demaree/Don V. Moses Prentice Hall (1995) |
Score and Podium Frederick Prausnitz W.W.Norton & Co., New York (1983) |
| Music Analysis: An Annotated
Guide to Literature Harold Diamond Schirmer Books (1991) |
Guide to Orchestral Bowings
through Musical Styles Rabin & Smith University of Wisconsin-Madison WI (1991) |
| Guide to Symphonic Music Edward Downes Walker and Company, New York (1976) |
The Classical Style Charles Rosen Viking Press (1971) |
| The Art of Conducting Technique Harold Farberman Belwin Mills Warner Bros., Miami (1997) |
The
Grammer of Conducting Max Rudolph Schirmer, New York (1983) |
| Orchestral Music in Print
Margaret Farish MusicData, Inc. (1939-1983) |
The Saito Conducting Method
Hideo Saito Wayne Toews 1610 Morgan Ave Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, S7H 2S1 |
| Score Reading - Book 1: Orchestration
Roger Fiske Oxford University Press (1958) |
Handbook of Conducting Hermann Scherchen Oxford University Press (1989) |
| Score Reading - Book 2: Musical
Form Roger Fiske Oxford University Press (1958) |
The Complete Conductor Gunther Schuller Oxford University Press (1997) |
| The History of Orchestral
Conducting in Theory and Practice Elliot Galkin Pendragon Press, New York (1989) |
Essays in Musical Analysis,
Vols. 1-6 Donald Francis Tovey Oxford University Press (1935) |
| Manual of Orchestral Bowing Charles Gigante ASTA, Theodore Presser Co., Bryn Mawr, PA (1986) |
Of Music and Music Making Bruno Walter W.W.Norton, New York (1961) |
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