Score Reading And Conducting Annotation Of 《Appalachian Spring》

Firstly, Conducting should serve for music, and express music art quality as a medium, a means; explaining the music is to make music explain itself. The simple definition—what is called "The right gesture"," accurate acoustics" has to be a creative process, which is based on the exact and deep understanding the music score. To furthest "Realize", "Expound" and express the music information, We should know exactly what is the composer wants, and exchange those to be the accurate reappearance and expression of music figure , then purse the higher understanding and impressing of music artistic conception.This thesis is a monograph discussing how to realize the music figure and the artistic conception 《Appalachian Spring》 suite ( orchestral version) through presenting how to study its score sufficiently. The thesis aims to greatly blend the conducting performing with the music figure and artistic conception within the performing area, making reference to the circulation of combining the constant summarization of performing practice and the new practice; to "create" and "express" music in real time, and then to present the importance of reading 《Appalachian Spring》 based on its music figure and artistic conception to conducting performance.This thesis includes three parts. The first part mainly introduces all Aaron Copland's life in brief and his five main composition periods; The second part mainly introduces the background of 《Appalachian Spring》 suite (orchestral version) and the general gut of this pantomime; The third part mainly analyses the music figure and artistic conception of 《Appalachian Spring》 suite (orchestral version) , illustrating the importance of reading 《Appalachian Spring》 music figure and artistic conception to conducting performance referring to its performance way, dynamic, tempo, rhythm and expression etc. with CDs of both orchestral and chamber version.Loyally, I hope my thesis directly have the referenced value on studying and performing 《Appalachian Spring》 suite in conducting area. I also hope my thesis would arose the further exploration and consideration on conducting performance, especially on how to understand the music figure and artistic conception sufficiently, and I do my endeavor to the development of conducting career in China.