Murza S. Conducting gesture as an instrumental-performing phenomenon: a comparative-technological approach

The dissertation is devoted to the research of the conductor 's sign system as a performing communicative instrumental and orchestral phenomenon. The definitions of "conductor's gesture", "performing conductor-sign language", "performing conducting text" and "metatext" of a musical work are given. A historical review of the European conducting tradition from the point of view of the evolution of conducting technique is carried out. The properties of a conductor's gesture in a non-verbal-communicative performance situation with an orchestral ensemble are analyzed. Functional, structural, substantive features of conductor's manual gestures as a specific non-verbal musical-linguistic system, which is being developed as a structure capable of communicative embodiment of the value principles of music, are determined. Hence the peculiarities of the language system of conductor's gestures, which (like music itself), on the one hand, is based on intimate-psychological, maximally-individualized (performing individual-stylistic) conditions; on the other hand - on universal language parameters (historical-stylistic, compositional, temporal, musical-linguistic conditions of a musical work). The chronotopic and qualitative-sound characteristics in the system of conductor gesture embodiment are investigated in the work; the correlation of forms of game movements of musicians-instrumentalists and conductor's gesture system is analyzed. The individual properties of the system of conducting gestures of some leading conductors of the XX-XXI centuries are considered, as well as certain objective tendencies concerning conducting gestures and staging are typologized.