Conducting Technique Etudes Softcover Book/CD

<strong>Conducting Technique Etudes</strong> by James Jordan with exercises by Blake Henson and Gerald Custer. A companion to <em>Evoking Sound</em> (Second Edition) and <em>The Conductor’s Gesture</em><br>Examples recorded on included CD<br><br><p>In this volume of etudes for conductors, James Jordan details a ground-breaking pedagogy for the development of conducting skills. This method is based on a sequential harmonic process to inform and define conducting gesture.</p><p>This book is revolutionary because it employs a process of score study to develop what Dr. Jordan calls “kinesthetic/harmonic audiation.” Conductors of all skill levels will profoundly benefit from these new ideas.</p><p>While instrumentalists and keyboardists for decades have had books of daily “etudes” for the development of technique, conducting pedagogy has not had the benefit of such a rigorous technical course of study.</p><p>This book teaches conductors to make gestural decisions based upon harmonic rhythm and uses the gestural vocabulary of Rudolf Laban as the beginning “vocabulary” from which a conductor can make decisions. This book of etudes differs from other approaches because it views harmonic progression as the primary vehicle by which to learn conducting technique.</p>