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20 Northpointe Parkway, Suite 188, Amherst, New York 14228 www.cambriapress.com T (716)568-7828 F (716)608-1489 E [email protected] An innovative, independent, non-subsidy publisher of academic research NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT Music Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hinton, Eric L. Conducting the Wind Orchestra : meaning, gesture, and expressive potential / Eric L. Hinton. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-60497-559-8 (alk. paper) 1. Conducting. 2. Band music--History and criticism. I. Title. ML458.H56 2008 784.8’145--dc22 2008032645 Conducting the Wind Orchestra Meaning, Gesture, and Expressive Potential Eric L. Hinton 5.5 x 8.5” Hardcover Level: College & Faculty 200 pages November 2008 US$99.95 / £58.95 ISBN: 9781604975598 Description This book examines the conductor’s methods in terms of the realization of ex- pressive potential in a selected body of works. This examination encompasses analytical, technical, and expressive gestural aspects of the art and craft of conducting. The author also discusses the idea of meaning in music and ways, both musical and extramusical, in which meaning arises in performance. In this unique study, the author also considers how the use of physical ges- tures may have an impact upon the realization of expressive potential in a given work and, in particular, upon those works selected for discussion. Cen- tral to this process is the notion that there is something “behind the notes.” Text-based modes of analysis do not afford access to music as it is created by the actions of performers and conductors. The author argues that this music often has strong extroversive associations. Inquiry limited to the text neither helps the interpreter to realise fully the expressive or communicative poten- tial of that work, nor does it fully consider the impact of expressive issues on performance. Thus, the conductor acts as a mediator in this process, taking the work and all relevant information surrounding it into account as it is prepared for per- formance.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hinton, Eric L.Conducting the Wind Orchestra : meaning, gesture, and expressive potential / Eric L. Hinton. p. cm.Includes bibliographical references and index.ISBN 978-1-60497-559-8 (alk. paper)1. Conducting. 2. Band music--History and criticism. I. Title.
ML458.H56 2008784.8’145--dc22
2008032645
Conducting theWind Orchestra
Meaning, Gesture, and Expressive Potential
Eric L. Hinton
5.5 x 8.5” Hardcover Level: College & Faculty200 pages November 2008 US$99.95 / £58.95
ISBN: 9781604975598
Description
This book examines the conductor’s methods in terms of the realization of ex-pressive potential in a selected body of works. This examination encompasses analytical, technical, and expressive gestural aspects of the art and craft of conducting. The author also discusses the idea of meaning in music and ways, both musical and extramusical, in which meaning arises in performance.
In this unique study, the author also considers how the use of physical ges-tures may have an impact upon the realization of expressive potential in a given work and, in particular, upon those works selected for discussion. Cen-tral to this process is the notion that there is something “behind the notes.” Text-based modes of analysis do not afford access to music as it is created by the actions of performers and conductors. The author argues that this music often has strong extroversive associations. Inquiry limited to the text neither helps the interpreter to realise fully the expressive or communicative poten-tial of that work, nor does it fully consider the impact of expressive issues on performance.
Thus, the conductor acts as a mediator in this process, taking the work and all relevant information surrounding it into account as it is prepared for per-formance.
20 Northpointe Parkway, Suite 188, Amherst, New York 14228www.cambriapress.comT (716)568-7828 F (716)608-1489 E [email protected]
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N E W B O O K A N N O U N C E M E N T
Conducting the Wind OrchestraTable of Contents
Index of Musical Examples, Figures, and TablesForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroduction
Chapter 1: Conducting in Theory and PracticeThe Conductor as InterpreterThe Conductor/Ensemble Relationship
Chapter 2: The Development of the Wind Orchestra and Its Conductor The American Wind Band The Twentieth-Century Wind Orchestra in Great Britain The Wind Orchestra Conductor
Chapter 3: Expressive Potential in Selected Works for Wind Orchestra Meaning in Music: Expressive Potential and Narrative Topical Discourse in Music Expressive Potential and Physical Gestures
Chapter 4: Overture from Gazebo Dances by John Corigliano Overture from Gazebo Dances Narrative Through Topical Discourse and Structural Content in Overture from Gazebo Dances Theory into Practice: Conducting the Overture from Gazebo Dances
Chapter 5: Introduction and Fanfare from Music for Prague 1968 by Karel Husa Introduction and Fanfare from Music for Prague 1968 Narrative Through Topical Discourse and Structural Content in Introduction and Fanfare from Music for Prague 1968 Theory into Practice: Conducting the Introduction and Fanfare from Music for Prague 1968
Chapter 6: Celebration by Edward Gregson Celebration Narrative Through Topical Discourse and Structural Content in Celebration Theory into Practice: Conducting Celebration
Chapter 7: Morning Music by Richard Rodney Bennett Morning Music Narrative Through Topical Discourse and Structural Content in Morning Music
Theory into Practice: Conducting Morning Music
Chapter 8: Summary and Conclusions
Appendices Notes Bibliography Index
About the Author
Eric L. Hinton is assistant professor of music at Susquehanna Uni-versity. He holds a PhD from the Birmingham Conservatoire in the United Kingdom. Dr. Hinton conducts the Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Symphonic Band, and Stadium Band. He teaches trumpet and conducting as well as courses in brass instrument pedagogy and the history of literature of the wind orchestra.
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It is within this context that the author examines John Cori-gliano’s Overture from Gazebo Dances, Karel Husa’s Intro-duction and Fanfare from Music for Prague 1968, Edward Gregson’s Celebration, and Morning Music by Richard Rodney Bennett, with regard to their expressive potential and adopts topical analysis in a general way as a point of departure in an attempt to relate this potential to physical gestures, facial expressions, and body language in the art and craft of conducting. In addition, the author considers the applicability of the analytical tools developed in the study to the actual practice of performance with regard to the works discussed, and at-tempts to show the relationship between the analysis of a given work, the physical manifestation of what that analysis uncovers, and the realisation of expressive potential in per-formance. This book will help readers better understand the relation-ship between the conductor’s physical gestures, body lan-guage and facial expressions, and the expressive potential of selected works for the wind orchestra. As a book that clearly reflects the author’s passion, it will be a welcome addition for collections in music.
