LUMINIŢA GUŢANU STOIAN: CHORAL CONDUCTING TREATISE - THE BASES OF CONDUCTING TECHNIQUE (THE PUBLISHING HOUSE OF THE ROMÂNIA DE MÂINE FOUNDATION, BUCHAREST, 2016)
LUMINIŢA GUŢANU STOIAN: CHORAL CONDUCTING TREATISE - THE BASES OF CONDUCTING TECHNIQUE (THE PUBLISHING HOUSE OF THE ROMÂNIA DE MÂINE FOUNDATION, BUCHAREST, 2016)

Summary/Abstract: “Thank the flame for its light, but do not forget the lamp holder standing in the shade, with constancy of patience!” says a wonderful teaching from the writings of the great poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore. We initiate this presentation in the very attractive and efficient style – let us admit it – that we are to discover in almost all the pages of this entire treatise, at the beginning of nearly every chapter: we are greeted not by an arid definition, but by an appropriate quotation from the teachings and experience of some great maestros of choral conducting. The well-determined purpose of technically elucidating, from the very beginning, the essence of the problem (tackled in that respective chapter), gets „sweeter”, but also „arms itself” both with the personality of some great artists and professors, as well as, with their incontestable professional authority. This can be either a strategy, or a gift; however, it is, certainly, an easier, more pleasant and thorough way of learning. We can also find, subliminally, that, in our practical undertakings, the essential purpose is the very practical application of one’s skills, on condition one understood and used, concretely and efficiently, the intellectual, technical and psychological spark that can trigger the energies needed for this application. The object of study is, in turn, either the technical aspect, the psycho-technical, or the movement-related one; throughout the present treatise, each of the stages proposed by the author - especially the last one - are strewn with subchapters that present, in an orderly and definite manner, practical and gradual exercises of comprehension, dexterity, gesture efficiency, as well as of kinetic and intellectual undertaking of the final conclusions provided by the problematic of each chapter.

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