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The Beat Stops Here : Lessons on and off the Podium for Today's Conductor - Mark Gibson
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The Beat Stops Here

Lessons on and off the Podium for Today's Conductor

By: Mark Gibson

Paperback | 13 April 2017

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In The Beat Stops Here: Lessons on and off the Podium for Today's Conductor, master conductor Mark Gibson addresses the technique of conducting as an extension of intimate knowledge of the score to the hands and arms. He employs a variety of everyday activities and motions (brushing the dog, Tinkerbelle, the "door knob") to describe the physical aspects of the role. He advocates a comprehensive, detailed approach to score study, addressing major works bar-by-bar in terms of both musical analysis and conducting method. Finally, Gibson explores the various roles a conductor plays, as a teacher, a scholar and a member of the musical community. His writing is highly focused, with an occasionally tongue-in-cheek, discussing everything from motivic development in Brahms to how to hold a knife and fork in public. In short, The Beat Stops Here is a compendium of style and substance in the real world of today's conductor.
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"Filled with fabulous imagery, an insightful book from a master teacher!" -- Neil Varon, Professor of Conducting, at the Eastman School of Music

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