Music Direction for the Stage : A View from the Podium.
Joseph. Church
Bok Engelsk 2015 · Electronic books.
| Omfang | 1 online resource (417 pages)
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| Opplysninger | Cover -- Music Direction for the Stage -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword by Alan Menken -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The View from the Podium -- part i Music Direction: A Job Description -- 1. Music Direction Today and Yesterday -- What a Music Director Does -- Historical Survey of Music Direction -- Technology and the Shrinking Orchestra -- Looking to the Future -- 2. Musical Stage Production -- Songs, Musicals, and Opera -- A (Very) Brief History of Music for the Stage -- Production in the Twenty-First Century -- 3. Job Opportunities for Music Directors -- Broadway and Off-Broadway -- National Tours -- Regional (Local), Repertory, and Stock Theater -- Nightclubs, Cabarets, and Concerts -- Revues, Special Events, and Industrials -- Academic Theaters and Events -- Amateur and Community Performances and Talent Shows -- Workshops and Developmental Productions -- part ii Personnel -- 4. The Production Team -- Producers -- Stage Managers -- General Managers, Company Managers, House Managers, and Production Managers -- 5. The Creative Team -- Composers and Lyricists -- Directors -- Choreographers -- Designers and Technicians -- 6. The Music Team -- Conductors, Associates, and Assistants -- Contractors and Music Coordinators -- Orchestrators and Copyists -- Vocal and Dance Arrangers -- Synthesizer Programmers -- The Orchestra -- 7. The Performers -- Singers and Dancers -- Singers and Actors -- Star Performers and Nontraditional Casting -- Casting Directors -- part iii Preproduction -- 8. Mounting a Production -- Meetings and Agendas, Planning and Scheduling -- Casting -- Determining the Orchestration: Three Scenarios -- Scenario 1: Voice and Piano, or Maybe More -- Scenario 2: Small Ensembles -- Scenario 3: Orchestra Reductions -- 9. The Music: Assessment and Analysis -- Learning and Practicing Scores -- Preparing Scores for Rehearsal.. - Tempo and Tempo Changes -- Feels, Grooves, and Syncopations -- Dynamics and Articulations -- Cueing and the Stage -- 18. From the Studio to the Stage -- Run-throughs, Dress Rehearsals, and the Sitzprobe -- Load-ins, Seatings, and Sound Checks -- The Podium -- Technical Rehearsals, Previews, and Brush-ups -- Giving and Receiving Notes -- part vi Performance -- 19. Conducting in Performance -- The Pre-Show Routine -- Showtime -- Repeated Performances: Variations on a Theme -- When Things Go Wrong -- 20. Maintaining a Production and Preserving a Show -- A Day in the Life -- Keeping the Performance Fresh -- Rehearsing after Opening -- Subbing in the Orchestra -- Subbing on the Podium -- Disputes -- Original Cast and Other Recordings -- Repeatability and the Rehearsal Score -- 21. Working as a Music Director -- Starting Out -- Career Philosophy -- Maintaining a Career -- How to Get a Gig -- Appendix A Putting It Together -- In The Heights #1: "In The Heights" -- The Lion King #1: "Circle of Life" -- Appendix B Bibliography, Suggested Reading, and List of Musical Works Cited -- Index.. - Transcribing -- Practical Analysis for Music Direction -- 10. Arranging for Music Directors -- Starting an Arrangement: Approaches and Rightness -- Technical Fundamentals of Arranging -- Distribution, Registration, and Voicing -- Dynamics and Articulation -- Key -- Feel and Style -- Tempo -- Structure -- Notating Arrangements -- Arranging for Voices -- Arranging for Movement -- part iv Rehearsals 1: Singers and the Stage -- 11. Overview of Rehearsal Process -- 12. Individual Vocal Rehearsals -- Coaching Singers -- Rehearsal Process and Conduct -- Background, Analysis, and Style -- Key -- Tempo -- Vocal Technique -- Accompanying and the Accompaniment -- Text and Singing -- Acting and Singing -- 13. Ensemble Vocal Rehearsals -- Ensemble Rehearsal Process -- Choral Techniques for the Stage -- Dynamics and Articulation -- Breathing and Phrasing -- Vocal Production and Technique -- Intonation -- Text and Diction -- Acting and Characterization -- Movement -- Choral Conducting for the Stage -- 14. Rehearsals with Directors and Choreographers -- Staging and Dramatic Rehearsals -- Movement and Dance Rehearsals -- 15. Adapting Music to the Production -- Cueing -- Underscoring, Transitions, and Incidental Music -- Overtures, Bows, and Exit Music -- part v Rehearsals 2: Musicians, Technicians, and the Venue -- 16. Orchestras and Orchestrations -- Organizing the Musicians -- The Orchestra: Sections and Setup -- Rhythm Sections: Keyboards, Drums, Bass, and Guitar -- Woodwinds and Brass -- Strings -- Orchestration: Notation and Parts -- 17. Instrumental Conducting for the Stage -- Rehearsal Process -- Conducting Styles -- Visibility and the "Field" -- Baton, Head, and Hands -- Conducting Techniques -- Meter, Beat Patterns, and Subdivisions -- Preparatory Beats and Cutoffs -- Rests and Holds -- Safeties and Vamps -- Free Tempo, Recitative, and Following Singers.. - One of Broadway's foremost music directors emerges from the orchestra pit to tell how the music is put into a musical show. Part descriptive account, part instruction manual, this book offers a unique and invaluable look behind the scenes, from the point of view of the musical chief of staff, the music director.
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| ISBN | 9780199993420
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