Author: Schuller, Gunther
Hardback; Book; Music Examples
584 pages
Published: November 1997
Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195063775
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One of America's leading contemporary composers, conductors, and musicologists calls for a radical rethink on conducting - will spark considerable debate!In this controversial study, contemporary composer and conductor Gunther Schuller puts forth his own principles of conducting, and then analyzes in detail several classical masterpieces, comparing the composers' original notation to the manner in which modern conductors interpret them.