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Welcome to David Barg's Online Brochure !
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IGNITING RESPONSE
The Conductor's Toolbox
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A 200 page (working)book by David Barg
to help ignite musicians' response to your conducting.
40 illustrations, 65 musical examples, tips from
prominent musicians, advice from students, online video
demonstration of approaches and techniques.
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Igniting Response is for conductors
who want to take their
ensembles to the next level.
Igniting Response 's step-by-step approaches will
help you create significant - even dramatic -
improvement in such top-priority behaviors as:
* Watching
* Marking the Music
* Precise, compelling rhythm
* Listening
* Dynamics
* Expressiveness
* Attention and engagement
* Taking and maintaining our tempi
* Taking responsibility
* Practicing
...and many, many more
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Igniting Response
is for:
New music teachers
Veteran music teachers
University conductors
Teaching artists
Mentors
Music staff developers
Music/Music Ed faculty
Music/Music Ed students
Young musicians
Parents
Supervisors
Administrators
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Photo: Omaha Conservatory of Music
Institute Orchestra
David Barg, Conductor
Shostakovich Chamber Symphony, August 2007
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Igniting Response
goes on sale
in September 2008
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The user-friendly tools (approaches and techniques)
in Igniting Response have been developed, tested,
and refined over twenty years of research
and practical application.
Research grants from the Dana Foundation - in three
consecutive years - have helped create the tools
conductors need to make the music we hear in our heads.
Proven successful in a wide range of musical
environments, these tools will help you create inspiring
and lasting improvement at your next rehearsal.
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HOW DO THESE TOOLS WORK?
Igniting Response tools work by shifting focus from
our conducting to their response...
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From conducting focus:
- Giving a clear downbeat in the character of the music
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To response focus:
- Teaching the skill of watching, and how to breathe with us on our prep beat;
- Making sure their instruments are up in plenty of time;
- Teaching them to mentally subdivide our prep beat so they take our tempo;
- Insisting they not look down before we're even finished with our downbeat, but rather to keep
watching for several beats, etc.
Focusing on student response recognizes this truth: the musicians are our instruments.
And, as we know, it takes far more than a clear downbeat for Marisa,
Allen, and Wei-Lin to respond on their saxes, celli, and vocal cords as we want.
Igniting Response will help you "play your student-instruments"
as beautifully as you do your own.
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Do look at - and listen to - these excerpts, then...
check back in September, when IgnitingResponse goes on sale!
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Attention & Engagement
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Advice from Students
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Young
musicians
have plenty of
insightful
advice for us
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Table of Contents
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Watching
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Watching:
a Technique
to be taught,
practiced, and
rehearsed.
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Marking
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Marking is
telling
themselves
what
we say is
important.
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Good posture
makes
students'
bodies
Learning
Allies -
not enemies.
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Talking so they Listen
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And not only listen to
what we say, but also
mark, remember, and do it!
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Photos: Omaha Conservatory of Music Institute Orchestras, David Barg, Conductor. Photos courtesy of Deb Shostack
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Sound Encounters Orchestras (Ottawa, KS), David Barg, conductor. Photo courtesy of Rita Dowling
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