Conducting Good Music

Shows Hans Swarowsky conducting the Vienna Symphony Orchestra as excerpts from Brahms, Back, Weber, Schubert, Haydn, Tschaikowsky, Dvorak, and Beethoven are played. Traces the historical background and development of conducting as it is known today. Explains the signs which the composer writes into the score and illustrates how the conductor interprets them to the orchestra. Uses superimposed animated diagrams and close ups to demonstrate 4/4, 2/4, and 3/4 tempos.