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SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Conducting Books,
Mediated Materials, and Sources Related to Gesture
(with special attention to the Left Hand)
Adler, Samuel. Choral
Conducting: An Anthology, 2nd
ed. New York:
Schirmer
Books, 1985.
Banks, Timothy Paul. Et la Gauche?: Toward a Methodology of Left Hand Use in
Conducting.
Lecture-Demonstration presented at the Alabama Music Educators
Convention, January 2004.
For abstract, outline, and resources, see
http://faculty.samford.edu/~tpbanks
.
Busch, Brian R. The Complete Choral Conductor: Gesture and Method. New York:
Schirmer Books, 1984.
Braithwaite, Warwick. “Use of Left Hand and
Arm,” in The Conductor’s Art.
London:
Williams and Norgate,
1952.
Collins, Don L. Teaching Choral Music. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1993.
Davidson, Archibald T. Choral Conducting. Cambridge:
Harvard Univ. Press, 1948.
Decker,
Harold and Colleen Kirk. Choral
Conducting: Focus on Communication.
Prospect Heights:
Waveland Press, 1995
(Reissue of original version,
Englewood Cliffs:
Prentice-Hall, 1988).
Ehmann, Wilhelm, trans. George Wiebe.
“Conducting Patterns and Choral Gestures”
in Choral Directing. Minneapolis:
Augsburg, 1968.
Farberman, Harold. The
Art of Conducting Technique: A New
Perspective. [U.S.]:
Belwin-Mills/Warner Bros.,
1997. Also Video supplement to the
text (same
publisher).
Finn, William J. “Baton Technique,” in The
Art of the Choral Conductor.
Boston:
Birchard, 1939.
Fuchs, Peter Paul. The Psychology of
Conducting. New York: MCA Music, 1969.
Galknin, Elliott W. A History of Orchestral Conducting in Theory and Practice.
Stuyvesant, NY: Pendragon Press, 1986.
Garretson, Robert L. “Conducting Techniques,” in Conducting Choral Music, 6th
ed.
Englewood Cliffs:
Prentice-Hall, 1988.
Gehrkens, Karl W. Essentials in Conducting.
New York: Oliver Ditson, 1919.
Gordon, Lewis. “Estabishing
Rudiments of Conducting,” and “Developing Expressive
Conducting Techniques,” in Choral
Director’s Rehearsal and Performance Guide.
West Nyack, NY:
Parker Publishing, 1989.
Green, Elizabeth A. H. The Modern Conductor, 6th ed. Upper Saddle
River: Prentice-
Hall, 1997.
_____________ and Russell Reed. Malko Conducting Exercises (videotape
accompanying The Modern
Conductor 5th ed.).
Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall,
1992.
_____________. “Sight (The Eyes),” in The Dynamic
Orchestra. Englewood Cliffs:
Prentice-Hall, 1987.
_____________. “On Teaching Conducting,” in The
Conductor’s Score (rev. ed. of
The Conductor and His Score). Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1985.
Grosbayne, Benjamin. Techniques
of Modern Orchestral Conducting, 2nd ed.
Cambridge: Harvard
Univ. Press, 1973.
Hunsberger, Donald and Roy Ernst. The Art of Conducting. New York:
Knopf, 1883.
Hylton, John B.
“Developing Conducting Skill,” in Comprehensive Choral Music
Education. Upper Saddle
River: Prentice-Hall, 1995.
Kahn, Emil. Elements of Conducting, 2nd
ed. New
York: Schirmer
Books, 1975.
Kelso, J.
A. Scott, Dan L. Southard, and David Goodman. “On the
nature of human
interlimb
coordination,” in Science. Vol.
203 (1979), pp. 1029-1031.
Kohut, Daniel and Joe Grant. Learning to Conduct and Rehearse. Englewood Cliffs:
Prentice-Hall, 1990.
Labuta, Joseph. Basic Conducting Techniques. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1982.
Lamb, Gordon. “Conducting Techniques,” in Choral
Techniques, 2nd ed. Dubuque:
Wm. C. Brown, 1979.
Lawrence,
Douglas, and Vernon Sanders. A Conductor’s Handbook, Volume 2:
A Basic Conductor’s Alphabet. San Carlos,
CA: Thomas House Publications,
1996.
Leinsdorf, Erich. The
Composer’s Advocate. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1981.
Marrin, Teresa Anne. Toward
an Understanding of Musical Gesture:
Mapping
Expressive Intention with the Digital
Baton. M.S. Thesis,
Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, 1996.
[Abstract at http://web.media.mit.edu/~marrin/HTMLThesis/4.1.1.htm
]
[ See also Teresa Marrin
Nakra below.]
Maiello, Anthony. Conducting: A Hands-On Approach, 2nd ed. [U.S.]: Belwin Mills
(Warner Bros), 1996. Also Video presentation of introductory
remarks and
examples (same publisher).
Malko, Nicolai. The Conductor and His Baton: Fundamentals
of the Technic of
Conducting.
Copenhagen: Hansen, 1950.
Meek,
Charles J. “The Left Hand,” in Conducting Made
Easy: for Directors of Amateur
Musical Organizations. Metuchen: Scarecrow Press, 1988.
Moses, Don V., Robert W. Demaree, and Allen
F. Ohmes. Face
to Face With An
Orchestra.
Princeton: Prestige Publications,
1987.
Nakra, Teresa Marrin. Inside the Conductors Jacket: Analysis, Interpretation and
Musical Synthesis of Expressive Gesture. Ph.D. Dissertation,
Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, 2000.
[Abstract at http://web.media.mit.edu/~marrin/HTMLThesis/Title_abstract_committee.htm
]
Neuen, Donald. Artistic Musical Conducting, Vols. I
and II. [CD-rom
video] Fayston:
Choral Excellence Series, c2002.
Oldfield, R. C. “Handedness in musicians,” in British Journal of Psychology. 1969,
Vol. 60(1), pp. 91-99.
Phillips, Kenneth H. Basic Techniques of
Conducting. New York /
Oxford: Oxford
Univ. Press, 1997.
Pfautsch, Lloyd. “The Choral Conductor and the Rehearsal.” In Choral Conducting
Symposium, 2nd
ed., ed. Harold Decker and Julius Herford,
69-111. Englewood
Cliffs:
Prentice-Hall, 1988.
Prausnitz, Frederick. Score and Podium. New
York: Norton, 1983.
Roe, Paul F. “Conducting,” in Choral Music Education,
2nd ed.
Englewood Cliffs:
Prentice-Hall, 1983.
Rudolf, Max. The Grammar of Conducting: A Comprehensive
Guide to Baton
Technique and Interpretation, 3rd ed.
[prepared
with assistance from Michael
Stern] Belmont, CA: Schirmer / Thomson /
Wadworth, 1995.
Sanders,
Vernon. A Conductor’s Handbook, [Volume 1:] An Exercise Manual for
Individual or Ensemble Practice. [Vol. 1] San Carlos, CA: Thomas House
Publications, 1993. [See Lawrence above for Vol. 2]
Schuller, Gunther. The Compleat
Conductor. Oxford/New
York: Oxford Univ. Press,
1997.
Shepherd, William. A Conducting Workbook with
CD-ROM Video. Belmont, CA:
Schirmer/Wadsworth/Thomson, 2002.
Skadsem, Julie Ann. The
Effect of Conductor Verbilization, Dynamic Markings,
Conductor Gesture, and Choir
Dynamic Level on Individual Singers’ Dynamic
Responses. PhD.
Dissertation, Univ. of Missouri-Kansas City, 1995.
VanWeelden, Kimberly.
“Relationships between perceptions of conducting
effectiveness and ensemble
performance,” in Journal of Research in Music
Education. 2002 Summer; Vol. 50 (2), pp. 165-176.
Wiens, Paul W. Expressive Conducting. Wheaton, IL:
Paul W. Wiens, 2002.
Also, accompanying
CD-roms for interaction with
website at
www.ExpressiveConducting.com .
Willetts, Sandra. Upbeat
Downbeat: Basic Conducting Patterns and
Techniques.
Nashville:
Abingdon Press, 1993.
Wood, Henry. About Conducting. London, 1945; St. Clair Shores, Mich.:
Scholarly
Press, 1972.