On the Principles and Practice of Conducting

A practical manual for building musical understanding and physical skills, intended for conductors at all stages of development.

List of contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Make Beautiful Music: Involving Singularity of Tones in Succession and of Tones Sounding Simultaneously
Free the Mind, Hear Everything: Connecting the Open Consciousness to All the Sounds, All the Time
Free the Body: Involving the Necessity of Freeing the Body from Unnecessary Muscle Tensions
Be the Music: Applying the Free Body in the Service of a Maximally Beautiful Performance
Addendum A. Starting, Stopping, and Fermatas: Achieving a Collective Sense of When to Begin and End the Sound
Addendum B. Odds and Ends: A Miscellany of Matters Musical, Physical, and Practical
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Markand Thakar

Summary

A practical manual for building musical understanding and physical skills, intended for conductors at all stages of development.

Product details

• Authors: Markand Thakar, Markand (Customer) Thakar
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2016
• EAN: 9781580465403
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-540-3
• No. of pages: 146
• Dimensions: 238 mm x 159 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 358 g
• Illustrations: 60 line and 12 b/w illus.
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries