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Baton Basics: Communicating Music through Gesture
Diane Wittry
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Description for Baton Basics: Communicating Music through Gesture
Paperback. In Baton Basics, conductor Diane Wittry offers a unique approach to teaching conducting through weight, resistance, and energy. In doing so she gives readers new tools for effective and ultimately musical forms of conducting, forms based on conveying energy. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: AVRB; AVS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 168 x 15. Weight in Grams: 332.
Conducting is not simply the act of marking beats; it is the much more rich art of communicating emotion, character, and mood through movement to a large group of performers in order to freeire them to create music together. Baton Basics is based on the premise that the most effective and musical forms of conducting are about conveying energy, and that doing so is a fundamentally physical activity. In Baton Basics, conductor Diane Wittry offers a unique approach to teaching conducting through familiar gestures: weight, resistance, and energy, combined with size, beat placement. The end goal is the ability to ... Read more
Conducting is not simply the act of marking beats; it is the much more rich art of communicating emotion, character, and mood through movement to a large group of performers in order to freeire them to create music together. Baton Basics is based on the premise that the most effective and musical forms of conducting are about conveying energy, and that doing so is a fundamentally physical activity. In Baton Basics, conductor Diane Wittry offers a unique approach to teaching conducting through familiar gestures: weight, resistance, and energy, combined with size, beat placement. The end goal is the ability to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
331g
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199354160
SKU
V9780199354160
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Ref
99-1
About Diane Wittry
Diane Wittry has conducted orchestras throughout the United States and Europe and is known for her engaging audience rapport and her innovative concert programming. She is currently the Music Director and Conductor of the Allentown Symphony, PA. She is also the author of the book Beyond the Baton about artistic leadership for conductors of regional orchestras. Diane Wittry is recognized ... Read more
Reviews for Baton Basics: Communicating Music through Gesture
After her singularly successful exploration of what a modern conductor needs to know about all aspects of professional life in Beyond the Baton, Diane Wittry has written another essential book. In this lucid, comprehensive study of conducting gesture and technique, Wittry has managed to distill and clarify the essence of the conductor's craft.
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