McElheran: Conducting Technique

Contents

• Foreword
• Preface to the third edition
• Preface to the revised edition
• Preface to the first edition
• Inspiration
• Other studies
• Conducting technique - general
• The baton
• Odds and ends
• Beat patterns - theory
• Beat patterns - specific
• The left hand
• Dynamics, accents, phrasing, tempo, character
• Cues
• Off-beat cues, accents, and syncopations
• Conducting to records
• More odds and ends
• Starts and stops
• Subdivision and 'merging'
• Moulding the music
• Fermatas
• Ears
• Nerves
• Thoughts and interpretation
• Some rehearsal suggestions
• Solos and recitatives
• Changing beat units
• The avant-garde
• The concert
• Non-musical chores
• On teaching conducting
• Additions and amplifications for the third edition
• Index