Assertion: orchestra's conductor | /r/CapableOf | beat time
Facets:
value: with their right hand
type: MANNER
value: usually
type: DEGREE
value: with a stick
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: and so a conductor beats time which both can follow.
text: The first attempt to keep an orchestra's timing together was trialled in ancient Greece, where the 'conductor' beat the time with a stick, holding the orchestra together.
text: One early conductor was the French composer Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687), who beat time by banging a big stick (like a walking stick) on the floor to the time of the music.
text: Conductors usually beat time with their right hand.