Choral Conducting

By Abraham Kaplan

Book Overview

Abraham Kaplan has created a brilliant and practical textbook for choral conducting teachers and students on the college or conservatory level. His manual allows the instructor to cover every aspect of conducting and rehearsal techniques while giving the student regular opportunities to conduct in the classroom. Following many of the exercises is a list of choral selections from the standard repertoire which the neophyte conductor may use to practice a particular technical problem within a musical context.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393953750
• ISBN13: 9780393953756
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 203 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Kaplan's Choral Conducting

Abraham Kaplan was an amazing teacher of conducting at The Juilliard School. He transmitted much of his wisdom to the book, Choral Conducting. Unfortunately, the book was out of print for a long time and was hard to obtain, hence the possible discrepancies in editions. I've found the paperback in particular to be an extremely adequate and useful source for my college teaching. Other books deal with batons and CDs and other auxiliary products, but Kaplan deals with the basics of conducting--which is exactly what our students need.