The Lorenz Corporation

Author: David P DeVenney
Format: Books
Version: Textbook, CD Included

This three-volume series is a comprehensive tool for beginning conductors or more experienced conductors who are beginners in choral conducting.

Volume 1 presents fundamental conducting patterns along with numerous practice exercises. Approaches to repertory, programming, score marking, rehearsal strategies, and singing techniques are also introduced. It is a concise guide that offers a wealth of practical information and can stand alone as resource.

The more than thirty printed and recorded selections in Volume 2 complement the exercises in Volume 1. To further enhance study, each is accompanied by a brief note about the composer and the work, a translation of the text, and a short discussion of its conducting issues.

Volume 3 addresses topics that any practicing conductor is likely to face, including working with an orchestra, conducting musicals, the psychology of conducting, and using movement in the choral rehearsal.

Contents:

• Volume 1: The Promising Conductor
  • Exposition
  • Development
  • Chapter One: The Right Hand
  • Chapter Two: Two Hands
  • Chapter Three: Expressing Ideas
  • Chapter Four: Repertory and Programming
  • Chapter Five: The Score and the Rehearsal
  • Chapter Six: Singers and Choirs
  • Recapitulation
• Volume 2: Music for Classroom Use
  • Chant and Unison Music
    • General Characteristics
    • No. 1 Tantum ergo - Latin chant
    • No. 2 Veni Creator Spiritus - Latin chant
    • No. 3 Shenandoah - American folksong
    • No. 4 I'm Goin' Away - American folksong
    • No. 5 Alleluia - David P. DeVenney
  • Renaissance Music
    • General Characteristics
    • No. 6 Tu pauperum refugium - Josquin des Pres
    • No. 7 O magnum mysterium - Tomas Luis de Victoria
    • No. 8 Regina caeli - G.P. da Palestrina
    • No. 9 Adoramus te - Orlando di Lasso
    • No. 10 Il bianco e dolce cigno - Jacob Arcadelt
    • No. 11 Sing We and Chant It - Thomas Morley
  • Baroque Music
    • General Characteristics
    • No. 12 Ich dank' dir schon durch deinen Sohn. - J.S. Bach
    • No. 13 O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden - J.S. Bach
    • No. 14 Sing, Sing, Ye Muses (Movement 1) - John Blow
    • No. 15 And the Glory of the Lord, from Messiah - G.F. Handel
    • No. 16 Scene from Messiah - G.F. Handel
    • No. 17 Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich (BWV 150) - J.S. Bach
  • Classical and Romantic Music
    • General Characteristics
    • No. 18 A Virgin Unspotted, from The Singing Masters Assistant - William Billings
    • No. 19 Ave verum corpus - W.A. Mozart
    • No. 20 Lacrimosa, from Requiem - W.A. Mozart
    • No. 21 Kyrie, from Missa St. Joannis de Deo - Franz Joseph Haydn
    • No. 22 Sancti Dei - Michael Haydn
    • No. 23 Ach, arme Welt - Johannes Brahms
    • No. 24 Auf dem See - Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
    • No. 25 He,Watching over Israel, from Elijah - Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
    • No. 26 O salutaris hostia - Gioacchino Rossini
    • No. 27 Introit and Kyrie, from Requiem - Gabriel Faure
  • Contemporary Music
    • General Characteristics
    • No. 28 Sussex Carol - arr. David P. DeVenney
    • No. 29 Salve Regina - Adam Judd
    • No. 30 Sweet Reminders - James G. Kantor
    • No. 31 Stitching Chorus I, from Quilt Panels - Robert Maggio
    • No. 32 Black Is the Color - arr. David P. DeVenney
    • No. 33 Shenandoah - arr. David P. DeVenney
• Volume 3: The Practicing Conductor
  • Chapter One: Style (An Introduction to Performance Practices)
  • Chapter Two: Players (Working with an Orchestra)
  • Chapter Three: Stages (Conducting Dramatic Music)
  • Chapter Four: Psyched Out (Rehearsal Strategies - Beyond the Fundamentals)
  • Chapter Five: Locomotion (Using Movement in the Choral Rehearsal)
  • Chapter Six: Futures (Commissioning New Music)