Basic Conducting Techniques - OEBHH2180Z

• Title: Basic Conducting Techniques
• Guaranteed by: Katedra hudební výchovy (41-KHV)
• Faculty: Faculty of Education
• Actual: from 2023 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: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Is provided by: OIBS4H011A
• Note: enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: PhDr. Leona Stříteská, Ph.D.

Annotation

English

Last update: Kateřina Esserová, DiS. (06.05.2022)

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).

Literature

English

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

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

Syllabus

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

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.

Course completion requirements

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

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.