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Conductors' Annotated Scores: A Comprehensive Study, Leandro De Magalhaes Gazineo
Conductors' Annotated Scores: A Comprehensive Study, Leandro De Magalhaes Gazineo
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Conductors’ annotations have a different nature and goal from those of orchestral musicians.
The purpose of this study is to obtain a better understanding of the process of conductors’ annotations based on examined scores[1]collected from professional conductors and supported by a questionnaire answered by twenty-seven participants.
Certain questions provided a better understanding of the elements used in conductors’ annotations. For example: Why do some conductors prefer to use symbols, words, numbers, or colors? What kind of annotations are more suitable to specific repertories? Why are reinforcement markings, although redundant, so popular among conductors and why do some conductors …