An investigation of conductors' temporal gestures and conductor-musician synchronization, and a first experiment

Psychology of Music

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 81-99

  Luck, Geoff ^a   Nte, Sol ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conducting; Gestures; Visual beat perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 61049500998     PISSN: 03057356     EISSN: 17413087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0305735607080832     Document Type: Article

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