SKU: GI.G-173525
Finding Expressive
Meaning in the Score.
Composed by Frank
Battisti. Music
Education. 112 pages. GIA
Publications #173525.
Published by GIA
Publications
(GI.G-173525).
ISBN
9781574631333. UPC:
888680629212.
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.
