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.
| NumberOfPages | 112 |
| Media | Book(softcover, stapled) |
| Series | Meredith Music Resource |
| Publisher | Meredith Music |
| Contributors | L. Battisti, Frank(Composer) |
| Language | English |
| ISBN | 9781574631333 |
| UPC | 888680629212 |