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Music Direction for the Stage - A View from the Podium (Hardcover)
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Music Direction for the Stage - A View from the Podium (Hardcover)
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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.
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