On the Principles and Practice of Conducting
- Author: Thakar, Markand
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Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Make Beautiful Music: Involving Singularity of Tones in Succession and of Tones Sounding Simultaneously
- Free the Mind, Hear Everything: Connecting the Open Consciousness to All the Sounds, All the Time
- Free the Body: Involving the Necessity of Freeing the Body from Unnecessary Muscle Tensions
- Be the Music: Applying the Free Body in the Service of a Maximally Beautiful Performance
- Addendum A. Starting, Stopping, and Fermatas: Achieving a Collective Sense of When to Begin and End the Sound
- Addendum B. Odds and Ends: A Miscellany of Matters Musical, Physical, and Practical
- Bibliography
- Index