On the principles and practice of conducting
By: Markand Thakar
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9781580465403
Subjects: Conducting
Description: Each chapter begins with a summary of the underlying principles, presents real-life applications, and offers exercises for developing skills.
Notes: "Video demonstrations of the exercises as well as downloadable scores and parts are available on a companion website"--Book jacket flap.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-126) and index.
Table of contents: title: Make beautiful music : involving singularity of tones in succession and of tones sounding simultaneously; title: Free the mind, hear everything : connecting the open consciousness to all the sounds, all the time; title: Free the body : involving the necessity of freeing the body from unnecessary muscle tensions; title: Be the music : applying the free body in the service of a maximally beautiful performance; title: Addenda. Starting, stopping, and fermatas : achieving a collective sense of when to begin and end the sound; title: Odds and ends : a miscellany of matters musical, physical, and practical.