Research Guides: Conducting: Historic Overviews

Overviews of Conducting History

For Historic overviews about Orchestras and Wind Ensembles browse ML1311. The following books in the UO Libraries Music Collection provide detailed scholarly coverage of the history and development of conducting:

Conductors: a new generation by Philip Hart
Call Number: ML402 .H37
Publication Date: 1979
The Virtuoso Conductors by Raymond Holden
Call Number: ML402 .H65 2005
Publication Date: 2005
Winds of Change: the evolution of the contemporary American wind band/ensemble and its conductor by Frank Battisti
Call Number: ML1311.5 .B38 2002
Publication Date: 2002

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