This work is aimed at outlining a repertoire of conductors’ gestures. In this perspective, it presents two studies that investigate a specific subset of the body signals of orchestra and choir conductors, namely, the gestures for musical intensity. First, an observational qualitative study, based on a systematic coding of a corpus of fragments from orchestra concerts and rehearsals, singled out 21 gestures, in which either the gesture as a whole or some aspects of it conveyed indications for forte, piano, crescendo, or diminuendo; some are symbolic gestures, used either with the same meaning as in everyday interaction or with one specific of conductors; others are iconic gestures, both directly or indirectly iconic. Second, in a perception study, a questionnaire submitted to 77 participants tested if 8 gestures of intensity out of the 21 singled out by the coding study are in fact shared and understood, and whether they are better interpreted by music experts than by laypeople. Results showed that the tested gestures are fairly comprehensible, not only by experts but also by non-expert participants, probably due, for some gestures, to their high level of iconicity, and for others to their closeness to everyday gestures.

这项工作的目的是概述指挥家的手势。从这个角度来看，它提出了两项​​研究，它们研究了乐团和合唱团指挥的身体信号的特定子集，即音乐强度的手势。首先，一项定性观察性研究基于对乐队音乐会和排练中的片段语料库的系统编码，挑出了21种手势，其中手势整体上或某些方面传达了长处，钢琴，渐强，或diminuendo; 一些是象征性手势，其使用方式与日常互动中的含义相同，或与一种特定的导体一起使用；其他是直接或间接的标志性手势。其次，在一项感知研究中，向77名参与者提交的问卷调查了编码研究中所选择出来的21种强度手势中的8种强度手势是否实际上得到共享和理解，以及音乐专家是否比外行人更好地进行了解释。结果表明，不仅是专家，而且非专家参与者都可以很好地理解测试的手势，这可能是由于某些手势具有较高的图标性，而其他手势则是由于其与日常手势的接近性。