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The Cambridge Companion to Conducting

  • Editor: Bowen, Jose Antonio
a rewarding and often revealing read

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$39.25

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Contents

  • Part I . Practice:
  • 1. The technique of conducting Raymond Holden;
  • 2. Conductors in rehearsal Charles Barber;
  • 3. Studio conduction Michael Haas;
  • 4. The conductor and the soloist Joseph Silverstein;
  • 5. Choral conducting Vance George;
  • 6. Opera conducting Sir Charles Mackerras;
  • 7. The orchestra speaks Robert L. Ripley;
  • Part II . History:
  • 8. The rise of conductors Jose Antonio Bowen;
  • 9. The central European tradition Jose Antonio Bowen and Raymond Holden;
  • 10. The French tradition David Cairns;
  • 11. The Italian tradition Michael Rose;
  • 12. The American tradition Jose Antonio Bowen and David Mermelstein;
  • 13. The English tradition Stephen Johnson;
  • 14. The Russian tradition David Nice;
  • Part III . Issues:
  • 15. The conductor as Artistic Director Bramwell Tovey;
  • 16. Women on the podium Michelle Edwards;
  • 17. Conducting early music Bernard Sherman;
  • 18. Training conductors Harold Faberman;
  • 19. The composer/conductor and modern music Martyn Brabbins;
  • 20. Managers and the business of conduction Stephen Wright;
  • 21. The future of conducting Leon Botstein.