Introduction to Conducting Techniques

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– 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:
Pattern marking – 20,0 %
Gesture technique – 50,0 %
Warm-up – 10,0 %
Tonality – 20,0 %
Assessment by exam:
Exam – 100,0 %

– 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.

• - Exam - 100.0%

NAO

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