MSC 326 Conducting I
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Brief history of conducting. Posture, stance, movement, breath and primary gestures.
Practical choral conducting techniques. Beating patterns of basic meters, with the
hand and neutral, legato and light staccato variants. The preparatory beat. The hold
and fermata. Starts and cues on all beats and off-beats. Tempo. Continuity. Conducting
a chorale. Complex beating patterns, variants, starts, holds, cues. Advanced conducting
techniques. Balance and expression. Expressive conducting. Basic analysis. Dealing
with voices. Basic vocal techniques. Basic rehearsal techniques. Conducting a madrigal.
Conducting plainchant. Soloists. Stage performance. Selected repertoire to be conducted
and sight played at the piano.
Credit units: 2 ECTS Credit units: 3.5, Prerequisite:
MSC 172 and MSC 174.
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