Choral Conducting: Focus on Communication

Choral Conducting: Focus on Communication
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Choral Conducting: Focus on Communication
Harold A. Decker , and Colleen J. Kirk
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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From the nation's top choral master-teachers! Choral Conducting provides direction and guidance for beginning choral conductors, and to stimulate the practicing conductor who is receptive to alternative approaches to choral development and problem solving. A wealth of experience is revealed in this unique compendium. Virtually every topic

is addressed. The cumulative effect is one of breadth and depth.

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Great Quality with a Easy Price.......2006-03-20

I ordered this book as a textbook for one of my classes at college. It arrived in perfect condition and I plan on purchasing more textbooks from Amazon because the price is in my range. I would recommend it to anyone. Thank you for your super prices and great quality products.

An excellent source for teachers and students of conducting........1998-11-22

This text explores a wealth of information unique to the choral conductor. Outstanding for all levels of students and teachers of conducting, Decker & Kirk's text is well organized and presents its eclectic contents from the most basic information to the advanced in an easy-to-read format that also allows the conductor quick reference in the future. Musical examples can be found throughout the text with sample markings that emphasize the teachings of each chapter. Other highlights of the text include:

A prologue discussing the importance of communication in a conductor; The relationship of the conducting gesture to the expression of the music (Chapter 1); An in-depth chapter on preparing the score with careful consideration to the historical perspective and score analysis. This section also includes models for score analysis and sample marked scores (Chapter 2); An extensive section on the role of the conductor in rehearsal, the reasons for careful preparation and planning, how to plan for different levels, and the choral instrument -- the physiology (breathing, phonation, amplification), diction, expression, and developmental exercises (Chapters 3-5); A chapter focusing on the criteria and guidelines for selecting repertory and building a program with your singers and audience in mind.

An extensive section of appendices includes: projects for several of the text's chapters; a guide for teachers of conducting classes; a guide on capitalization of titles (in English, Latin, Italian, French, and German); a pronunciation guide that includes a Phonetics chart, and guides for Liturgical Latin, German, and French; an annotated listing of repertory for children's, adolescents', treble, and male choruses, and music for the church choir; a glossary of terms used in this text; a bibliography; and music for conducting practice and study that is organized by musical period. Also includes an alphabetical index of terms and composers that appear throughout the text.

Choral Conducting: Focus on Communication
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Choral Conducting: Focus on Communication
Harold A. DeckerColleen J. Kirk
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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marvellous nostalgia.......2007-07-28

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If you are an American skinhead, you may get bored........2007-09-05

Why? Because it's about a young skinhead and his crew in late-60's England. They are MAD about football (soccer) and I honestly can't think of anything more boring than 13 year olds hero worshipping some team playing some sport that never fully entered the American conciseness. I wanted to read about the music, the brawling and the boozing. I got very little of that. However I did keep reading and read it pretty quick - it kept my interest enough to turn the page and I kept thinking Joe Hawkins was on the next page. He wasn't. I was looking for pulp fiction - what I got was a fairly interesting coming of age story.

A Real Cult Classic........2005-09-29

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The aftermath of Japan's 1945 military defeat left its public institutions in a state of deep crisis; virtually every major source of state legitimacy was seriously damaged or wholly remade by the postwar occupation. Between 1960 and 1990, however, these institutions renewed their strength, taking on legitimacy that erased virtually all traces of their postwar instability.

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Mathematica is today’s most advanced technical computing system. It features a rich programming environment, two-and three-dimensional graphics capabilities and hundreds of sophisticated, powerful programming and mathematical functions using state-of-the-art algorithms. Combined with a user-friendly interface, and a complete mathematical typesetting system, Mathematica offers an intuitive, easy-to-hande environment of great power and utility.

The Mathematica Guidebook for Graphics provides a comprehensive step-by-step development of how to use Mathematica to visualize functions and data, manipulate graphics, and optimize their appearance. Two-dimensional graphics, contour plots, plots of surfaces, free-form three-dimensional surfaces, and animations are the core topics. Hundreds of detailed examples and programs show a large variety of visualization techniques, algorithms, methods, and tricks. These tools allow the reader to create virtually any possible graphic, from simple curves to scientific visualizations and artistic images and logos. Mathematica graphics functions are discussed in detail, explained in numerous examples, and put to work in programs that are all contained on the accompanying DVD.

Unique Features:

* Step-by-step introductions to all of Mathematica graphics capabilities

* Comprehensive presentation of two-and three-dimensional graphics primitives and directives, as well as plotting capabilities for functions and data

* Hundreds of unique and innovative scientific visualizations and artistic images

* Website for book with additional materials and updates:

http://www.MathematicaGuideBooks.org

* Accompanying DVD contains all material as an electronic book with complete, executable Mathematica versions 4 and 5 compatible code and programs, rendered color graphics, and animations

Michael Trott is a symbolic computation and computer graphics expert. He holds a Ph.D. in theoretical physics and joined the R&D team at Wolfram Research in 1994, the creators of Mathematica. Since 1998, he has been leading development of the Wolfram Functions Site http://functions.wolfram.com, which currently features more that 80,000 formulas and identities, and thousands of visualizations.

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Non-trivial examples and accompanying DVD creates a fantastic resource.......2007-02-24

After first flipping through the book I, like another reviewer, was a little overwhelmed. It takes you into complex operations in the very first Fundamentals section. But after popping in the DVD (do this right away) and sitting down to actually work through some of the examples, I saw the light.

This isn't a "M- for Dummies" type of approach where the author consumes 100 pages of narrative on selecting pull-down menus and working gradually through trivial problems to build your confidence--the Guidebook is definitely learn by immersion and active exploration. Think "work the Guidebook" not "read the Guidebook".

The value of Trott's approach is that you're working through the kind of sophisticated problems that prompted you to buy Mathematica in the first place, not over-simplified examples that can be done on a calculator. So there's no leap to make from trivial tutorial to doing your work.

Stopping here, I'd give the book 4 stars because the index is a little scant and the headings/sections structure is hard to discern (both drawbacks when in reference mode).

However, the entire book (plus the other 3 guidebooks) are on the accompanying DVD as nb's. So you don't have to re-key anything, and you can modify and re-eval any of the expressions to better understand what's going on. Another key benefit is that the book structure is much clearer in the nb's so it's easier to reference. Open the table of contents nb which hyperlinks to all the contents and you've got a 5-star resource for doing serious graphics in Mathematica.

Turn to this book.......2007-01-10

I use Mathematica for both professional engineering applications and for personal interests which presently focus on complex analysis. This book describes through examples how to use the 2D and 3D plot commands together with all of the graphics options. Many of the examples make use of Mathematica programming capabilities to add another dimension of instuction to the text. Mathematica's Help files cover the basics, but if you need professional level results, then turn to this book.

Bad Book.......2006-06-17

Very bad book! This book, like all the books in the Trotter-Mathematica series is a excellent example of how not to write a good technical book. Presentation of material and ideas do not flow and he makes simple things more complex than they really are by virtue of his inability to communicate ideas in the most direct way. Many good authors have written books on Mathematica such as Bahder or Ruskeepaa. It would have been better if they had written this book as well.

A labor of love: Guidebook is a must have for Mathematica-using physicists .......2006-03-29

Imagine thumbing through a technical 1340 page book full of Mathematica graphics codes. If you are a Mathematica user, you would love going over this book. Michael Trott's The Mathematica Guidebook to Graphics is a treasure. He generously shared his labor of love with the ever growing Mathematica user community. Each chapter of the book is flooded with a wealth of references; he has clearly done his homework. The number of reference chapters runs well into the hundreds, some chapters have more than 800. Reviewing the references helps to compliment the unfamiliar concepts. The book also has an accompanying DVD. I personally have not used the DVD; I'd rather rehash the codes manually and try to understand them by trail and error. Essential comments explaining the reasoning behind using the commands for the majority of the codes are embedded in the codes. This book is properly called Guidebook; it is not a text book. Its target audience is a semi-advanced Mathematica user. However, interested beginners may well learn a lot going over the codes. Chapters also end with suggestive practice problems, some challenging, but nonetheless rewarding. Michael is a physicist with profound mathematical knowledge and skills. He has developed his own Mathematica coding style. As we all may agree, Mathematica is the natural glue joining physics and mathematics together; the playground is Mathematica and the players are physics and math. In my view, this book needs to be in every Mathematica-using physicist's personal library. I highly recommend the book, and applaud Michael for his enormous efforts in bringing the extended graphics features of Mathematica to the fore.

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Prerequisites included make this a bargain and a gem.......2006-03-22

It is unfortunate that two recent Amazon reviewers have found it difficult to understand the programming style in this book. I am a retired mathematician, now an antiquarian bookseller. Over the last 14 months, I have been reading all four books in the GuideBooks set and am preparing detailed written reviews on their content for publication elsewhere. The Graphics volume, like volumes 3 and 4, assumes that the reader has read the first volume, Programming, the full text of which is available with this volume. Indeed, this is explicitly stated in Section 0.1.2 of the Introduction:

"The four volumes of the GuideBooks are basically independent, in the sense that readers familiar with Mathematica programming can read any of the other three volumes. But a solid working knowledge of the main topics discussed in The Mathematica GuideBook to Programming -- symbolic expressions, pure functions, rules and replacements, list manipulations -- is required for the Graphics, Numerics, and Symbolics volumes. ... The whole suite of graphical capabilities and all of the mathematical knowledge in Mathematica are accessed and applied through lists, patterns, rules, and pure functions, the material discussed in the Programming volume."

Mathematica's pure functional notation and nonprocedural programming and symbolic pattern-matching can appear quite cryptic, being difficult to understand without the detailed background provided in the Programming volume. This is not to slight the ability of people who have been programming in Mathematica for many years, for one can write procedural, pure function [nonprocedural], or object-oriented programs in this robust system. Fortunately, the Graphics volume comes with a DVD that includes the complete text of all four volumes in the 5029-page GuideBooks series, including an index and hyperlinks to references and material found in the other volumes. Once one has read the needed chapters of the Programming volume, reading and understanding the programs in this outstanding Graphics volume is quite straightforward.

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The Mathematica Graphics Guidebook
Cameron Smith , and Nancy Blachman
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The Mathematica GuideBook for Symbolics (w/ DVD)

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The Mathematica GuideBook for Symbolics (w/ DVD)
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Mathematica is today's most advanced technical computing system. It features a rich programming environment, two-and three-dimensional graphics capabilities and hundreds of sophisticated, powerful programming and mathematical functions using state-of-the-art algorithms. Combined with a user-friendly interface, and a complete mathematical typesetting system, Mathematica offers an intuitive easy-to-handle environment of great power and utility.

The Mathematica GuideBook for Symbolics (code and text fully tailored for Mathematica 5.1) deals with Mathematica's symbolic mathematical capabilities. Structural and mathematical operations on single and systems of polynomials are fundamental to many symbolic calculations and they are covered in considerable detail. The solution of equations and differential equations, as well as the classical calculus operations (differentiation, integration, summation, series expansion, limits) are exhaustively treated. Generalized functions and their uses are discussed. In addition, this volume discusses and employs the classical orthogonal polynomials and special functions of mathematical physics. To demonstrate the symbolic mathematics power, a large variety of problems from mathematics and phyics are discussed.

Unique Features: Familiarizes the reader with symbolic mathematics functions in Mathematica for algebra, analysis, as well as orthogonal polynomials and the special functions of mathematical physics and shows how to use them effectively

Detailed discussions of the most frequent symbolic operations: equation solving, differentiation, series expansion, integration and organizing and performing symbolic calculations in mathematica, as compared to paper-and-pencil calculations

Numerous examples from mathematics, physics, and computer science

Clear organization, complete topic coverage, and accessible exposition for both novices and experts

Website for book with additional materials and updates: http://www.MathematicaGuideBooks.org

Accompanying DVD contains all material in the form of hyperlinked Mathematica notebooks that can be edited and manipulated; striking color graphics and animations are included on the DVD

Michael Trott is a symbolic computation and computer graphics expert. He holds a Ph.D. in theoretical physics and joined the R&D team at Wolfram Research in 1994, the creators of Mathematica. Since 1998, he has been leading the development of the Wolfram Functions Site http://functions.wolfram.com, which features more that 10,000 visualizations and 85,000 formulas and identities, and also allows for semantical searches.

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