A Performer's Guide to the Music of the Classical Period
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Published: 2002
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A Performer's Guide to Music of the Baroque Period
Author: ABRSM
Publisher: Performer's Guides (ABRSM)
Published: 2017-10-05
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9781786010384
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPreface / Anthony Burton -- Introduction / Christopher Hogwood -- Historical background / George Pratt -- Notation and interpretation / Peter Holman -- Keyboard / Davitt Moroney -- Strings / Andrew Manze -- Wind instruments / Stephen Preston -- Singing / John Potter -- Sources and editions / Clifford Bartlett
Classical and Romantic Performing Practice 1750-1900
Author: Clive Brown
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2004-05-20
Total Pages: 677
ISBN-13: 0195347242
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe past ten years have seen a rapidly growing interest in performing and recording Classical and Romantic music with period instruments; yet the relationship of composers' notation to performing practices during that period has received only sporadic attention from scholars, and many aspects of composers' intentions have remained uncertain. Brown here identifies areas in which musical notation conveyed rather different messages to the musicians for whom it was written than it does to modern performers, and seeks to look beyond the notation to understand how composers might have expected to hear their music realized in performance. There is ample evidence to demonstrate that, in many respects, the sound worlds in which Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, and Brahms created their music were more radically different from ours than is generally assumed.
The Flute Book
Author: Nancy Toff
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2012-09-13
Total Pages: 559
ISBN-13: 0195373081
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe instrument -- Performance -- The music -- Repertoire catalog -- Fingering chart for the Boehm flute -- Flute manufacturers -- Repair shops -- Sources for instruments and accessories -- Sources for music and books -- Journals, societies, and service organizations -- Flute clubs and societies.
After the Golden Age
Author: Kenneth Hamilton
Publisher: OUP USA
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0195178262
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHamilton dissects the oft invoked myth of a 'Great Tradition', or Golden Age of pianism. He then goes on to discuss the performance style great pianists, from Liszt to Paderewski, and delves into the far from inevitable development of the piano recital.
Singing in Style
Author: Martha Elliott
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780300109320
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMuziekhistorisch en musicologisch overzicht van de klassieke solozang vanaf de barok tot heden.
Music and Sentiment
Author: Charles Rosen
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2010-06-29
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 0300168373
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow does a work of music stir the senses, creating feelings of joy, sadness, elation, or nostalgia? Though sentiment and emotion play a vital role in the composition, performance, and appreciation of music, rarely have these elements been fully observed. In this succinct and penetrating book, Charles Rosen draws upon more than a half century as a performer and critic to reveal how composers from Bach to Berg have used sound to represent and communicate emotion in mystifyingly beautiful ways.Through a range of musical examples, Rosen details the array of stylistic devices and techniques used to represent or convey sentiment. This is not, however, a listener’s guide to any “correct” response to a particular piece. Instead, Rosen provides the tools and terms with which to appreciate this central aspect of musical aesthetics, and indeed explores the phenomenon of contradictory sentiments embodied in a single motif or melody. Taking examples from Chopin, Schumann, Wagner, and Liszt, he traces the use of radically changing intensities in the Romantic works of the nineteenth century and devotes an entire chapter to the key of C minor. He identifies a “unity of sentiment” in Baroque music and goes on to contrast it with the “obsessive sentiments” of later composers including Puccini, Strauss, and Stravinsky. A profound and moving work, Music and Sentiment is an invitation to a greater appreciation of the crafts of composition and performance.
For the Love of Music
Author: John Mauceri
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 0525520651
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith a lifetime of experience, profound knowledge and understanding, and heartwarming appreciation, an internationally celebrated conductor and teacher answers the questions: Why should I listen to classical music? How can I get the most from the listening experience? A protégé of Leonard Bernstein--his colleague for eighteen years--and an eminent conductor who has toured and recorded all over the world, John Mauceri helps us to reap the joys and pleasures classical music has to offer. Briefly, we learn the way a musical tradition born in ancient Greece, embraced by the Roman Empire, and subsequently nurtured by influences from across the globe, gave shape to the classical music that came to be embraced by cultures from Japan to Bolivia. Then Mauceri examines the music itself, helping us understand what it is we hear when we listen to classical music: how, by a kind of sonic metaphor, it expresses the deepest recesses of human feeling and emotion; how each piece bears the traces of its history; how the concert experience--a unique one each and every time--allows us to discover music anew. Unpretentious, graceful, instructive, this is a book for the aficionado, the novice, and anyone looking to have the love of music fired within them.
Reading Musical Interpretation
Author: Julian Hellaby
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 1351552198
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPerformance studies in the Western art music tradition have often been dominated by the relationship of theoretical score-analysis to performance, although some recent trends have aimed at dislodging the primacy of the score in favour of assessing performance on its own terms. In this book Julian Hellaby further develops these trends by placing performance firmly at the heart of his investigations and presents a structured approach to analysing the interpretation of a musical work from the perspective of a musically informed listener. To enable analysis of individual interpretations, the author develops a conceptual framework in which a series of performance-related categories is arranged hierarchically into an 'interpretative tower'. Using this framework to analyse the acoustic evidence of a recording, interpretative elements are identified and used to assess the relationship between a performance and a work. The viability of the interpretative tower is tested in three major case studies. Contrasting recorded performances of solo keyboard works by Bach, Messiaen and Brahms are the focus of these studies, and analysis of the performances, using the tower model, uncovers an interpretative rationale. The book is wide-ranging in scope and holistic in approach, offering a means of enhancing a listener's appreciation of an interpretation. It is richly illustrated with examples taken from commercial recordings and from the author's own recordings of the three focal works. Downloadable resources of the latter are included.
A Performer's Guide to Music of the Romantic Period
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Published: 2018
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ISBN-13: 9781786010995
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