This extension and expansion of
Guide to Score Study, co-authored with Robert Garofalo, examines the various stages conductors traverse in arriving at an interpretation. Battisti emphasizes the importance of the conductor's imagination, personality and ongoing study – weeks/months/years – in developing an interpretation that is personal, well-informed and faithful to the composer's expressive intent. He examines the score analysis process including the role and function of a work's musical elements; the need to balance intellectual understanding and intuitive feelings about a piece and the challenges faced by conductors when transforming an interpretation into a performance. As examples, he traces the procedures he used in forming interpretations of “Lisbon” and “Horkstow Grange” from Grainger's
Lincolnshire Posy, Copland's
Down a Country Lane and “Sinfonia” from Stravinksy's
Octet for Wind Instruments.
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| Publisher |
Meredith Music |
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| Pages |
112(07) |
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| Category |
Reference |
| SubCategory1 |
Conducting |
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| Medium |
Softcover |
| ISBN13 |
9781574631333 |
| ISBN13 |
1574631330 |
| Dimensions |
279x216 |
