Skills for Conducting Orchestra

Video Transcript

"For preparation when you're conducting an orchestra, the conductor needs to be fairly competent at certain skills. So these are things he might want to brush up on. The conductor needs to be able to do the following; you need to be able to read a full score. A full score has all the parts of the ensemble, if it's a string orchestra it has the violin; viola, cello's, double base and if it's a symphonic orchestra it will have all the strings; the wood winds and the brass, and percussion. The conductor also has to kind of have some knowledge of the capabilities of the instruments. They need to be able to recognize pitch and accuracies because you're going to be dealing with that. Rhythm and accuracies as well. They need to affectively blend the ensemble in respect with the music and they need to use clear conducting gestures."