Timeline for Why are conductors' movements shifted with respect to the musicians?
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| Jun 18, 2023 at 13:15 | answer | added | Mike Lamb | timeline score: 3 | |
| Feb 20, 2022 at 0:28 | answer | added | Lars Peter Schultz | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 11, 2022 at 15:16 | answer | added | poundifdef | timeline score: 3 | |
| Feb 10, 2022 at 11:25 | history | edited | Plop | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 9, 2022 at 18:38 | comment | added | CGCampbell | Plop, you might look up concertmaster (first violinist) vs conductor and concentrate on what is said are the duties of each. | |
| Feb 9, 2022 at 14:27 | comment | added | Barmar | Doing it synchronously would be like a GPS not telling you to turn until you're already at the intersection. | |
| Feb 9, 2022 at 10:49 | comment | added | tommsch | Two disconnected comments 1) Believe me, even as a beginner you would not be distracted by this conducting style. Its exactly the other way round. You could not play well otherwise 2) Have a look at some European Conductors and Orchestras: This gets really strange, because there the conductor is (apart from ahard of time) additionally on purpose out of sync with the beat. European orchestras are used to this and except it like that. Usually the first violinist there gives the exact beats and everybody is looking at here if necessary. | |
| Feb 9, 2022 at 10:19 | comment | added | phoog | @RedSonja sometimes that's true; at other times the conductor directs individual notes individually. | |
| Feb 9, 2022 at 9:43 | answer | added | Lazy | timeline score: 4 | |
| S Feb 9, 2022 at 8:35 | history | suggested | Greg Martin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 9, 2022 at 8:23 | comment | added | RedSonja | The conductor is not directing each note individually. The conductor is directing mood, feeling, emotional content... | |
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| Feb 9, 2022 at 1:21 | answer | added | Tim Owens | timeline score: 6 | |
| Feb 9, 2022 at 1:20 | history | edited | Richard | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 9, 2022 at 0:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackMusic/status/1491200257883049987 | ||
| Feb 8, 2022 at 20:59 | comment | added | Theodore | How far away from the orchestra are you when you are listening? Light (your visual perception of the conductor's movement) travels to you more quickly than the sound from the instruments. If you're about 50m away, the difference is about 150 ms, (a 𝅘𝅥𝅯 at ♩=100). | |
| Feb 8, 2022 at 20:44 | answer | added | Laurence | timeline score: 9 | |
| Feb 8, 2022 at 17:18 | comment | added | Andy Bonner | Your edit helped clarify the question. Could you make one more clarification: are you thinking mainly of situations where there's one particular gesture, like signaling a big dynamic change, and the conductor signals it early, OR about a phenomenon in which every single beat the conductor shows seems to be gestured a little early or late, compared to how the orchestra plays, as if the orchestra is always a little (and always the same amount) ahead or behind? | |
| Feb 8, 2022 at 17:02 | comment | added | Aaron | A conductor that moved exactly in time because everything had already been rehearsed would be entirely unnecessary. Since the musicians already know what's coming, what would be the point of having someone tell them what's coming at the exact time it arrives? | |
| Feb 8, 2022 at 16:59 | history | edited | Plop | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 8, 2022 at 16:55 | answer | added | phoog | timeline score: 6 | |
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| Feb 8, 2022 at 16:47 | answer | added | Richard | timeline score: 28 | |
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| S Feb 8, 2022 at 16:31 | history | asked | Plop | CC BY-SA 4.0 |