The Beat Stops Here: Lessons on and off the Podium for Today's Conductor

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• Foreword: Teaching Conducting
• List of Musical Examples and Illustrations
• PART 1: REPERTOIRE LESSONS
• Introduction to Repertoire Lessons
• A Glossary of Conducting Gesture
• Chapter 1. Overture
• Ludwig van Beethoven: Die Geschopfe des Prometheus, Op. 43 (1801)
• Gioacchino Rossini: La Cenerentola (1817)
• Felix Mendelssohn: Die schone Melusine, Op. 32 (1833)
• Giuseppe Verdi: Les Vepres Siciliennes (I Vespri Siciliani) (1855)
• Johannes Brahms: Tragische Ouverture, Op. 81 (1880)
• Chapter 2. Opera
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni, K. 527 (1787)
• Sestetto: Solo, solo in buio loco
• Giuseppe Verdi: Un ballo in maschera (1859)
• Finale 3o Scena e Romanza:
• Forse la soglia attinseELMa se m'e forza perderti
• Jules Massenet: Manon (1884)
• Duo: Pardonnez-moi, Dieu de toute puissance
• Giacomo Puccini: Madama Butterfly (1904)
• Duetto: Viene la sera
• Chapter 3. Smaller symphonic works
• W.A.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 29 in A Major, K. 201 (1774)
• Antonin Dvorak: Scherzo Capriccioso, Op. 66 (1883)
• Maurice Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales (1911, orch. 1912)
• Chapter 4. Concerto and solo works
• Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto no. 4 in G Major, Op. 58 (1805-6)
• Gustav Mahler: Des knaben Wunderhorn (1887-1899)
• Four songs
• Jean Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 47 (1904)
• Chapter 5. Larger symphonic works
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Op. 35 (1888)
• Igor Stravinsky: Petrouchka: Scenes burlesques en 4 tableaux (1911, rev. 1947)
• PART 2: PROFESSIONAL LESSONS
• Chapter 6. The Conductor as Teacher
• Not the Eternal Tao
• Are Two Hands Better?
• MAKE YOUR OWN METRONOME!
• Storytelling
• Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes
• Developing Score Reading Skills (by A. Tomaro)
• Quantifiable
• Chapter 7. The Conductor as Scholar
• On Rewriting the Act 3 Finale of Bizet's Les Pecheurs de Perles (1863)
• Heroism Denied: Movement Order in Mahler's Sixth Symphony (1903-4, rev. 1906)
• Puccini's Turandot (1924): A Conductor's Perspective
• Chapter 8. The Conductor as Leader
• Working with the Orchestra: Bill of Rights
• Three-part Conducting Rules
• More Rules for the Road
• Talk Show - a cautionary tale
• Quiz Show
• Working in the Opera House:Gott, welch dunkel hier!
• Working with Singers: A Breed Apart
• Working with Chorus: Dreamers of Dreams
• Building a Career: Ou voulez-vous allez?
• POSTSCRIPT: Present and Future Tense
• Appendix A: Musical works and editions
• Appendix B: Texts and Translations
• Appendix C: Tempo Indications and Metronome Markings
• Appendix D: Endnotes
• Appendix E: Resource materials/bibliography
• INDEX