The University of Tennessee

at Chattanooga

 
Choral Conducting

Spring Semester 2004


Instructor: Dr. Kevin Ford * Office: CAD 310 * Phone: 425-5243 * email

Catalog Description:
Designed to teach the student to train choral groups, read choral scores, and conduct effective rehearsals; basic patterns for choral and orchestral conducting, interpretation and building of repertoire of both secular and sacred choral compositions. Actual conducting of works of all periods with and without instrumental accompaniment. Spring semester. Prerequisites: 207, 208, 303

Read: The chapters are listed on the dates that reading is suppose to be completed.
Form: The video observation forms are linked in Adobe Acrobat format (.pdf)
(See the bottom of this page if you do not have Adobe Acrobat installed on your computer.)
Video review clips: These are quicktime movie clips that include demonstrations of the gesture or pattern covered in the topic. The clips that begin with a number are reference clips for you
to learn the gesture or pattern. You may use these when you practice the gestures. The
clips that begin with a letter are demonstrations of gestures covered in class. You are to
view the clips and write a few sentences describing the gesture you observed. These
evaluations are due on the next class meeting.
(See the bottom of this page if you do not have Quicktime installed on your computer.)

Downloadable Choral Library Project Time Sheet

Date Topic Read Form Video review clips
  Review- off-beat entrances    

Offbeat entrance beat 1

Offbeat entrance beat 2

Offbeat entrance beat 3

Offbeat entrance beat 4
  Review- Asymmetrical Meters Ch.8  

Asymetrical meters ex.

5 pattern fast 3+2

5 pattern fast 2+3

7 pattern fast 2+2+3

7 pattern fast 2+3+2

7 pattern fast 3+2+2

9 pattern fast 3+3+3

9 pattern fast 2+2+2+3

9 pattern fast 2+2+3+2

9 pattern fast 2+3+2+2

9 pattern fast 3+2+2+2
  5, 7, 9 patterns slow (music Hunsberger p.296-299)    

5 pattern slow 2+3

5 pattern slow 3+2

7 pattern slow 3+2+2

7 pattern slow 2+3+2

7 pattern slow 2+2+3

7 pattern slow 2221

7 pattern slow 2212

9 pattern slow 3222

9 pattern slow 2322

9 pattern slow 2232

9 pattern slow 2223
  Tempo Changes, Endings, & Rehearsal Techniques  

Web Video Clip Evaluation Form

Tempo Change Exam Form

Tempo Change ex.1

Tempo Change ex.2

Tempo Change ex.3

Tempo Change ex.4

Ending ex.1

 

Phrasing, Endings, Clarify top of beat, and Rehearsal Techniques

 

  

Lift Thine Eyes

Form

Ending ex.2

Ending ex.3

Phrasing ex.1

Top of beat ex.1

Top of beat ex.2
 

Sustaining Gestures, Pattern Modification (download music .pdf file: first page of Bruckner's "Christus factus est")

 Ch. 9  

Melding ex.1

Melding ex.2

Melding ex.3

Melding ex.4

  Supermetric, Melding Gesture, LH/RH change     Left / Right Hand ex.1
  Conducting exam 3 Bruckner   Meld  
  Programming, Audience Rapport, Administrative Ch.10    
  Contemporary Music, Notation, Scores Ch.12    
  Conducting Accompaniments, dead gestures Ch.11    
  Music Theater (music Hunsberger: p. 373-377) Ch.13    
Ap26 Final Exam 11:00-1:00   Final Exam  

All video review files are optimized for Apple's Quicktime 4 or later player. If you don't have Quicktime software installed on your computer and you want it, it is a free download. The address is http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/ . Click on the address then scroll down until you see "free download" and follow the instructions from there. The Conducting forms and online music are in .pdf format for the Adobe Acrobat Reader. This software is probably already on your computer but if it is not it is also a free download at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html

updated 12/29/2003 jkford

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