Handing on the Baton: The Conductor as Musicianship Mentor
Aleta King$15.30
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How can conductors best mentor students in developing their musicianship skills?
This book describes the experience of young musicians rehearsing and performing Bach's cantata Himmelskönig Wilkommen and explores what they found most helpful from their conductor. It asks why they found five musicianship elements--solfege, inner hearing, musical memory, sight-singing, and intervals--most important. It explores the conductor's self-mentoring process during preparation for a performance of Fauré's Requiem. Further, it asks how students learned to self-mentor during a rehearsal and performance of Karl Jenkins's The Armed Man: Mass for Peace.
It advocates the Conductor as Musicianship Mentor (CMM) model, in which a pedagogically sequential, voice-based musicianship program is intentionally aligned with an ensemble performance program, creating a synergy with a unique impact on learning.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Published: 02/16/2026
ISBN: 9798385261925
Pages: 126
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.27d
This book describes the experience of young musicians rehearsing and performing Bach's cantata Himmelskönig Wilkommen and explores what they found most helpful from their conductor. It asks why they found five musicianship elements--solfege, inner hearing, musical memory, sight-singing, and intervals--most important. It explores the conductor's self-mentoring process during preparation for a performance of Fauré's Requiem. Further, it asks how students learned to self-mentor during a rehearsal and performance of Karl Jenkins's The Armed Man: Mass for Peace.
It advocates the Conductor as Musicianship Mentor (CMM) model, in which a pedagogically sequential, voice-based musicianship program is intentionally aligned with an ensemble performance program, creating a synergy with a unique impact on learning.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Published: 02/16/2026
ISBN: 9798385261925
Pages: 126
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.27d