"Sound in Motion" by David McGill

David McGill has written, "We tend to think that what we see on the page is music. What it really is is a recipe for how to make music. You have to take that bare framework and turn it into living sound. This is where the Tabuteau number system and everything else he taught comes into play, because it helps you get from that point of looking at black notes on white paper to creating emotion in the mind of the listener."

McGill’s Sound In Motion is a delightful read and a most welcome addition to any discussion of music interpretation. As a highly successful performing musician, he tells us all of the secret inner workings of Marcel Tabuteau’s teaching and his understanding of music’s structure and how to illuminate that structure, how to successfully produce a singing, expressive musical experience for anyone to hear. To enjoy a great performance, one need not know all the whys and wherefores of how the music was accomplished. However, it never hurts to know how the performer thinks before playing. A beautifully turned phrase with lovely tone is not blind inspiration, but rather, intelligent inspiration.

For a thorough and easily understood explanation of Tabuteau’s famous teaching tools, Sound In Motion is a “Rosetta Stone” of experience. --David Weber

"Grammy winning bassoonist, David McGill, has served as principal bassoon of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra since 1997. He has also served as principal of the Cleveland Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony, and the Tulsa Philharmonic. A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia (1985), he has taught at DePaul and Roosevelt Universities in Chicago, Indiana University, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and the University of Toronto. He has given master classes in Finland, Hungary, and across the United States and Canada." —Indiana University Press