Basic Conducting Techniques - OEBHH2180Z

• Title: Basic Conducting Techniques
• Guaranteed by: Katedra hudební výchovy (41-KHV)
• Faculty: Faculty of Education
• Actual: from 2024 to 2024
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, MC [HT]
• Extent per academic year: 0 [hours]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: PhDr. Leona Stříteská, Ph.D.

Annotation

English

The course is focused on the issue of vocal conducting. The content of the course is theoretical and practical acquisition of basic clock schemes and elementary conducting skills: clock schemes, conclusions, divided gesture. The study material is mainly Czech, Moravian and Slovak folk songs and easy choral compositions (canon, homophony, polyphony).

Last update: Esserová Kateřina, DiS. (06.05.2022)

Course completion requirements

Active participation in lessons, max. 3 absences. Theoretical interpretation of the assigned timing issue and its practical application to the studied repertoire. Profile of the chosen conductor or choir master.

Last update: Valášek Marek, doc. Mgr. MgA., Ph.D. (02.02.2024)

Literature

English

HUNSBERGER, D., ERNST, R. The Art of Conducting. US,McGraw-Hill Education - Europe, 1992. ISBN 9780070313262.
McELHERAN, B. Conducting Technique : For Beginners and Professionals. Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN 9780193868540.
WATKINS, J. J. The Art of the Conductor : The Definitive Guide to Music Conducting Skills, Terms, and Techniques.  Bloomington, 2007. ISBN 9780595433964

Last update: Valášek Marek, doc. Mgr. MgA., Ph.D. (02.02.2024)

Syllabus

1. Meaning of timing, attitude, preparatory gesture, scheme 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 5/4, 6/4
2. Basic timing schemes in legato and staccato execution, work with dynamics.
3. Practicing basic time signatures and conclusions, changing time signatures.
4. Types of fermates and their implementation.
5. Subdivided gesture.
6. Clock schemes of compound clocks.
7. Recitative conducting.
8. Performances at main and half times.
9. Work with tempo, riterando, accelerando, subita, una battuta, alla breve
10. Functions of the left hand, differentiation.
11. Dynamics, subitto, crescendo, decrescendo.

Last update: Valášek Marek, doc. Mgr. MgA., Ph.D. (02.02.2024)