Цветелина Славова: „Учебен диригентски терминологичен речник“
Tsvetelina Slavova: The Active Study Dictionary of Conducting Terminology

Summary/Abstract: The publication “The Active Study Dictionary of Conducting Termino-logy” is the first of its kind in our country. Its immediate addressees are students from the speciality of conducting (both choral and orchestral) as well as students who study conducting in music-pedagogical and music-theoretical fields. However, the scope of prospective readers and users is much broader. The highly informative preface presents the conception of the conductor’s terminological apparatus by typologizing the lexical sources of conducting terminology in terms of: a) commonly used vocabulary; b) general music theory vocabulary; and c) narrowly specialized vocabulary. At the same time, the conductor’s terminological apparatus has been classified on the basis of functional criteria of non-verbal and verbal communication. The dictionary includes about 250 concepts, which all together activate an informative field of a wide historical range woven from the meaning-based trajectories of the genres included, the cultural practices, institutional structures, compositional techniques, musical language, notations, executive methods, as well as the components and characteristics of the conductor’s semiotic system. Tsvetelina Slavova’s work highlights the growing need for thematically oriented terminological dictionaries in the respective fields of expertise.

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