Score reading : a key to the music experience / Michael Dickreiter ; translated by Reinhard G. Pauly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dickreiter, Michael.

Standardized Title:

Partiturlesen. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Score reading and playing.

Physical Description:

263 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Portland, OR : Amadeus Press, [2000]

Summary:

The ability to read an orchestral score is an obvious necessity for conductors, but it can also be rewarding for musical amateurs. Following the score while listening to a piece of music can both heighten understanding and furnish a basis for judging the performance; a careful examination of the score can provide insights into the musical structure of a work that may be difficult to gain by listening. This book offers the knowledge required to read complex scores, with clear, accessible techniques for identifying and isolating the essential parts. Exercises using excerpts of scores from the simple to the difficult encourage the student or music lover to develop reading skills.

Contents:

2. Types of Scores 11

3. The Look of a Score 17

Parts, lines, brackets 17

How to determine a score's makeup or instrumentation 20

Organization of a score page 23

Notation of individual instruments 31

Transposing instruments 34

Title pages: "Opus" and other work-numbering systems 39

Partial scores 40

4. Scores and Their History 41

The first scores 41

Renaissance and baroque scores 46

Scores of the classic and romantic periods 51

5. Reading a Score

Hearing a Score 65

Methods for following a score 66

Following a single part 67

Chamber music scores 70

Counting beats and measures 73

Synchronizing image and sound 76

Musical reading of a score 82

6. Examples for Practicing Score Reading 91

"Erbarme dich, mein Gott" (Have mercy, O Lord), Aria No. 47 from The Passion According to St. Matthew, BWV 244, Part II / Johann Sebastian Bach 92

Romanze in F Major, Op. 50, No. 2, for violin and orchestra / Ludwig van Beethoven 101

Waltz in D-flat Major, Op. 64, No. 1, for piano, the "Minute Waltz" / Frederic Chopin 119

Eine kleine Nachtmusik, Serenade in G Major, K. 525, fourth movement / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 124

Quintet in A Major for piano, violin, viola, cello, and double bass, "The Trout," fourth movement / Franz Schubert 133

Symphony in C Major, K. 551, "Jupiter," excerpt from the first movement / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 150

Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67, excerpt from the first movement / Ludwig van Beethoven 162

Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98, excerpt from the first movement / Johannes Brahms 176

Prelude to Tristan and Isolde / Richad Wagner 200

The Firebird, ballet suite, 1945, excerpt / Igor Stravinsky 220

7. Orchestras and Conductors 245

Numbers and types of instruments 248

Seating plans 251

Spatial effects 254

The conductor 256

Conducting technique 260.

ISBN:

1574670565

OCLC:

43657098