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" Music direction for the stage : "
Joseph Church
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BL
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581446
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b410665
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Church, Joseph,1957-
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Music direction for the stage : : a view from the podium /\ Joseph Church
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xvi, 392 pages :: illustrations, music ;; 26 cm
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9780199993406
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: 9780199993413
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: 0199993416
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: 0199993408
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-385) and index
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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 -- 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 -- 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 ; 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 -- 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 -- 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; 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 -- 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
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Theater music directors must draw on a remarkably broad range of musical skills. Not only do they conduct during rehearsals and performances, but they must also be adept arrangers, choral directors, vocal coaches, and accompanists. Like a record producer, the successful music director must have the flexibility to adjust as needed to a multifaceted job description, one which changes with each production and often with each performer. In Music Direction for the Stage, veteran music director and instructor Joseph Church demystifies the job in a book that offers aspiring and practicing music directors the practical tips and instruction they need in order to mount a successful musical production. Church, one of Broadway's foremost music directors, emerges from the orchestra pit to tell how the music is put into a musical show. He gives particular attention to the music itself, explaining how a music director can best plan the task of learning, analyzing, and teaching each new piece. Based on his years of professional experience, he offers a practical discussion of a music director's methods of analyzing, learning, and practicing a score, thoroughly illustrated by examples from the repertoire. The book also describes how a music director can effectively approach dramatic and choreographic rehearsals, including key tips on cueing music to dialogue and staging, determining incidental music and underscoring, making musical adjustments and revisions in rehearsal, and adjusting style and tempo to performers' needs. A key theme of the book is effective collaboration with other professionals, from the production team to the creative team to the performers themselves, all grounded in Church's real-world experience with professional, amateur, and even student performances. He concludes with a look at music direction as a career, offering invaluable advice on how the enterprising music director can find work and gain standing in the field [Publisher description]
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Musicals-- Production and direction
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MT955.C59 2015
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