Oh, yum

Boo, hiss

Hahahha, have my upvote

The conductor arranges the piece. There’s a LOT of interpretation to written music. A time signature indicates the structure of a measure. How fast it’s actually played (overall) is often indicated, but a conductor may choose to alter the tempo.

Then within the sheets there are indicators for louder/softer, faster/slower, and a number of other elements for each instrument and the music overall, but again the conductor will choose what that means for a given piece, at a given stage, at a given time (maybe there are more people in the audience, so he increases volume with hand gestures, or it’s a warmer night at an outdoor venue, which means less dense air so the sound carries less).

The reason the conductor bows is the sum total of the music is a result of his choices, his direction of the musicians. The resultant music as a whole is because of him. No small task.

He also represents the orchestra as a unit. That bow represents every musician there.

To add to this, there are specific baton patterns for specific time signatures. For example, a 3/4 time signature motion looks like the baton is tracing a sail on a boat since it has 3 corners - up, down/across, horizontal back to the start position (anyone correct me, it’s been a long time).

A musician following the conductor has a clear visual timer to verify against plus he knows which beat of the measure they’re on.

And the description… Oh my

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Studs come in to play in rare situations.

Source: grew up driving on ice all winter. Not “snow”, just ice. Eventually found Nokian Haakapaliita tires (Finnish), even the worst over-powered, open-diff, FWD car suddenly goes (and turns, and stops) in the worst conditions.

I refuse to use any other tire for winter.

Come on now, you can’t say that and not give the link!

(Stil upvoted you though)