Choral conducting and the construction of meaning
Subtitle: gesture, voice, identity
By: Liz Garnett.
Publisher: Ashgate; Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Burlington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780754663799
Subjects: Choral conducting
Description: "By comparing a variety of choral traditions, it investigates to an extent to which the connections between conductor demeanour and choral sound operate at a general level, and in what ways they are constructed within a specific idiom. Its findings will be of interest both to those engaged in the study of music as a cultural practice, and to practitioners involved in a choral conducting context that increasingly demands fluency in a variety of styles." -- Book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Choral conducting in context; title: How to study conducting : model, method, metalanguage. How do people think about conducting? ; From ethnography to peer research ; How to write about conducting; title: Choral singing and enculturation. Defining choral culture : what counts as choral? ; Creating choral culture : the dos and don'ts ; Maintaining choral culture : policing the boundaries; title: Conducting gesture and musical thought. Different styles, different gestures ; Different styles, common ground ; Metaphoric gesture and embodied musical meaning ; Spontaneous gesture and the ensemble; title: The conductor-choir bond. Monkey see, monkey do ; Making use of the conductor-choir bond ; Conclusion.