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Skip to 0 minutes and 13 seconds CATHERINE TACKLEY: Have you ever wondered what a conductor does? How do musicians work together to create complicated music that sounds like a single person or instrument playing? [More Beethoven’s 5th Symphony playing]
Skip to 0 minutes and 25 seconds CATHERINE TACKLEY: What do musicians have propped up on stands in from of them and how do they use it? What makes the lines and dots meaningful to musicians and allows them to create the sounds we call music? [More Beethoven’s 5th Symphony playing]
Skip to 0 minutes and 41 seconds CATHERINE TACKLEY: What does reading music mean? Why do some musician need printed music and some not? [More Beethoven’s 5th Symphony playing]
Skip to 0 minutes and 50 seconds CATHERINE TACKLEY: Music is a bit like a language. If you understand a little bit of the language of a country you visit you really get more from your trip. If you understand a little bit about how music works you will experience music in a different and more meaningful way. [More Beethoven’s 5th Symphony playing]
Skip to 1 minute and 8 seconds CATHERINE TACKLEY: Come behind the scenes with us to explore what musicians do in rehearsals and concerts. Understand more about how they use notation to create the performances that we all enjoy. Ultimately learn about how a conductor navigates the full orchestra scores of symphonies by composers like Mahler and Beethoven. [More Beethoven’s 5th Symphony playing]
