chironomy

Cheironomy (or Chironomy) is the use of hand signals to direct vocal music performance.

He raised his arms in practised chironomy. '

A composer and zither player, Miya Masaoka, will lead her trio, Chironomy, which includes the tabla player Samir Chatterjee and the cornet player Taylor Ho Bynum in works that explore North Indian rhythms.

Upon selling the pastor on the idea of the replacement, Wagner then gave Salamunovich the only conducting lesson he ever received from him and showed him the conducting chironomy for the meters of the 2, 3 and 4/4 time signatures, and wished him well.