Klarinet Archive - Posting 000192.txt from 1995/06

From: Fred Jacobowitz <fredj@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Conductor books
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 1995 20:17:12 -0400

Scott,
Since you say you are in cow country I will spare you the
obligatory "get thee to a good Conservatory of Music library"lecture and
give
you a very partial list of possible source readings from the various
conducting courses I've taken: 1) Max Rudolf, "The Grammar of Conducting"
(1994 G. Schirmer) 2) Hunsberger and Ernst, "Art of Conducting" 3)Elizabeth
Green, "The Modern Conductor" 4) Frederick Prausnitz, "Score and Podium"
(Norton). The last one I can personally attest to as being somewhat useful.
The others have simply been recommended by instructors. If I am not
mistaken, there is also something by Paul Hindemith but I'm not sure
about that. Hope this helps.

Fred Jacobowitz

On Sun, 11 Jun 1995, SCOTT MCCHESNEY wrote:

> I know this topic has nothing whatsoever to do with the two lists I
> sent this to, but these are the best places I can think of, so bear with me.
> Being in Iowa, there are precious few resources available for me to
> use to learn (I am not currently in a university environment, and will
probably
> not be for a while.) I am trying to learn to conduct better than I currently
> do - which, due to a bad bit of irony, I do with my LEFT HAND. Yuck!
> Anyway, knowing that the only really best way to improve conducting is
> to DO IT, I nevertheless would like to get at least a beginning book on it, if
> there is such a thing. I need help on some of the basics before i try to
> overcome the problem of finding an ensemble that will let me use them as my
> "guinea pig".
> Does anybody on the list know of any good conducting books? Thanks a
> lot in advance!
>
> -- Scott
>