Introduction to Conducting Techniques

– Individual work in regarding to reading of scores and gestuare coordination.

-Group work  in the realization of scores, their analysis, conducting, auditions, thecnical sessions and debates on interpretation.

– Score reading exercises diagonally, vertically, horizontally, with and without request for internal listening.

– Exercises in vocal technique, breathing, vocal positioning, vocal tract, passages, and timbre balance.

– Instrumental technique exercises.

Continuous evaluation:

Gesture technique/Pattern marking – 50%

Score reading – 20%

Warm-up/Tonality – 30%

Assessment by exam:

Exam – 100%

– Develop  gesture coordination, when applied to score reading.

– Develop techniques for reading scores and writing specifics.

– Acquire choral and orchestral conducting techniques.

– Develop stylistic and aesthetic analysis skills.

– Acquire specific knowledge of each instrument or voice, their families and performance in the orchestra or choir.

– Motor and gesture coordination. Techniques and performance.

– Gesture coordination and manual unfolding, with metronomic and expression marking.

– Polyphonic conducting including entries, “Arsis”, “Thesis”, dynamics, agogical, breaths, attacks, “fermatas”, suspensions, musical speech, style and aesthetic assuptions.

– Gesture technique:

       Patterns (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 12) symmetrical and asymmetrical;

       Inputs and endings;

       Time and counter-time.

– The coral warm-up.

– Reading and analysis of 4-voice choral scores:

        Harmonic reduction;

        Sing one voice and play another voice on the piano.

– Reading and analysis of string quartet scores.

– Reading and analysis of scores for orchestra:

        Reading the lines of transposing instruments.

• - Warm-up / Tonatility - 30.0%
• - Score reading - 20.0%
• - Gesture technique / Pattern making - 50.0%

• - Exam - 100.0%

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