Music Directing Online Book

Hey, someone's written a book on music directing!  Here's a great online resource for music directors from a man of many talents, Armando Fox:

"So They Talked You Into Being Music Director ( A Cheat Sheet, Survival Guide, and Tales From the Pit)"

Contents
0.1 About the Author

1 Who This Book Is For
1.1 Map of This Book

I Pre-Production
2 Planning And Logistics
2.1 What’s In The Box
2.2 The Conductor’s Score
2.3 Instrumentation: Types of Ensembles
2.4 Instrumentation on a Shoestring
2.5 Electronic Instruments
2.6 Scheduling and Timeline
3 Auditions
3.1 Provide Instructions to Auditioners
3.2 First Round Auditions: Range, Tone, Pitch Retention, Rhythm
3.3 Making Callback Choices
3.4 Tips to Auditioners for a Successful Audition

II Working With Actors and Singers
4 Teaching the Music
4.1 Scheduling and Running Vocal Rehearsals
4.2 Practice Tracks For At-Home Preparation
4.3 Pitch and Interval Training
4.4 Passing/Neighbor Tones vs. the Long Line
4.5 Variable-Stress Practice
4.6 No Obvious Starting Pitch
4.7 Teaching Harmonies and Counterpoint
4.8 Tricky Rhythms
4.9 Tips for Running Successful Vocal Rehearsals
4.10 Summary and Checklist
5 Diction
5.1 Diction Basics
5.2 Vowels and Consonants
5.3 Diction and Rhythm
5.4 Tempo
5.5 Dynamics
5.6 Polishing Away Easily-Avoided Pitfalls
5.7 Microphones: A Blessing and a Curse
5.8 Summary and Checklists
6 Performing the Material
6.1 Putting the Show in Context
6.2 Getting Inside A Song
6.3 Example: So What (Cabaret)
6.4 Example: Dulcinea (Man Of La Mancha)

III Working With the Orchestra
7 A Tour of the Orchestra Materials
7.1 The Conductor or Piano/Conductor Score
7.1.1 Common Musical Notations
7.1.2 Script Cues
7.1.3 Common Structural Notations
7.1.4 Underscoring
7.1.5 Segues
7.2 The Instrument Books
7.2.1 Doubling
7.2.2 Cross-Cuing
8 Working With the Orchestra
8.1 Orchestra Recruiting
8.2 The Mighty Piano
8.3 Strings
8.4 Preparing for Orchestra Rehearsal
8.4.1 Orchestra Rehearsal Venues
8.4.2 Preparing the Book
8.4.3 Mark Up the Book
8.4.4 Practice the Cues During Regular Rehearsals
8.5 Running the Play-Through
8.5.1 Budget 30 Extra Minutes
8.5.2 Polishing
8.6 Sitzprobe or Sit-n-Sing
8.7 Tech Week
8.8 Subs
9 Conducting
9.1 Conducting 101 for Pit Conductors
9.1.1 Rules of Thumb
9.1.2 Hands-Free Conducting
9.2 Theater Conducting Situations
9.2.1 Warning and Start
9.2.2 Tempo Changes
9.2.3 Dictated Notes and Colla Voce
9.2.4 Exiting Vamps
9.2.5 Underscoring
9.2.6 Safeties
9.2.7 Starts and Stops
10 On-the-Spot Arranging
10.1 Part Consolidation
10.2 Doing Your Own Reduction
10.2.1 Who Can Be Recruited?
10.3 Score Analysis
10.3.1 Rhythmic Foundation
10.3.2 Melody Lines
10.3.3 Counterpoint Lines
10.3.4 Embellishments
10.3.5 Obbligato Lines
10.3.6 “Signature Sound”
10.4 Reduction Strategies and Examples
10.4.1 Rules of Thumb and General Principles
10.4.2 Duplication and Substitution
10.5 Example Strategies
10.5.1 Sondheim’s Assassins
10.5.2 Man of La Mancha
10.6 Transposition

IV Appendices: Other Useful Stuff
11 Technology
11.1 The Internet
11.2 Scanning
11.3 Online Documents
11.4 Recording Practice Tracks
11.5 Music Notation, Transposition, Arranging
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