Conducting the Wind Orchestra: Meaning, Gesture, and Expressive Potential
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Table of Contents

List of Figures

x

List of Tables

xi

List of Musical Examples

xii

Foreword

xv

Preface

xvii

Acknowledgments

xix

Chapter 1: Conducting in Theory and Practice

1

The Conductor as Interpreter

1

The Conductor/Ensemble Relationship

17

Chapter 2: The Development of the Wind Orchestra and Its Conductor

27

The American Wind Band

29

The Twentieth-Century Wind Orchestra in Great Britain

44

The Wind Orchestra Conductor

48

Chapter 3: Expressive Potential in Selected Works for Wind Orchestra

53

Meaning in Music: Expressive Potential and Narrative

53