Guide to Score Study for the Wind Band Conductor

This is an excellent book because it is succinct, clearly organized and well written. The author is an expert on the subject and present and easy, yet very practical, and full of sense way of studying the score. If you have a score that you want to study you don't want to spend weeks of months readying a book about how to study a score. What you need is a brief, yet complete, description of the process. This book achieves that. I read it in three days and when I sat down to study a band score I made great use of my time. The book is filled with practical and musical advice.The reason why I do not give this book 5 stars is because the scores are very hard (almost impossible) to read because the font is very small. There is a score towards the end of the book with annotations, I could not read any of the notes: I tried on my two different kindles (paperwhite and fire) and on my laptop using the kindle app to no success. Editors should take this into consideration! Bottom line, this is not going to stop you from learning what you need to learn from this book, but it would have made the kindle edition much better. If you want to be able to read every single annotation (which makes sense) you might want to go with the paper edition.Overall I highly recommend the book.

This book basically taught me how to score study. It's succinct, to the point, and although Battisti is clearly a mad genius who would spend 100 hours on a 5 minute score, this is a great process to imitate. I don't know what I would've done in grad school without this resource. It was THE most important read in those 2 years for me. You can totally read the entire thing in about 2 hours too. I used it constantly as a reference thereafter, and I still do from time to time now as a professional High School Band Director.

A very concise and straight to the point book that teaches how to study scores. Excellent for beginning conductors with very helpful examples. Analysis of score has also all been done and laid out very clearly. Authors also dwell into what a conductor should be thinking about, which is rare in most books. Highly recommend.

I did enjoy this book and it was a great addition to my repertoire of skills for prepping music for rehearsal (I'm a middle school teacher who runs high school small ensembles).The process is time consuming but the input is incredibly valuable.

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As a professor of music, this book provides a fantastic baseline for music majors while offering refining tips for the more experienced conductor. Valuable resource for any conductor’s library.

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Very good book!

My previous review was sent in error for a snare drum book please disregard it.The book is excellent and well worth purchasing, very useful.

Este livro é muito bom tanto para regentes iniciantes como para os que têm algum conhecimento. Começa bem do zero na leitura da grade, transposição dos instrumentos,harmonia dos arranjos.Um material bem interessante e que não temos no Brasil, achei por sorte neste sebo.

Ottimo libro che introduce molto bene allo studio della partitura con esempi pratici estremamente utili e completi.Imperdibile per chi sta seguendo un percorso di direzione.