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Author: Music Library Association
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Published: 1953
Total Pages: 714
ISBN-13:
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A Century of Recorded Music
Author: Timothy Day
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2000-01-01
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780300094015
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLooks at the history of recording technology and its effect on music, including artistic performance, listening habits, and audience participation.
Marcel Moyse
Author: Ann McCutchan
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 1994-01-01
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 0931340683
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on well over 100 interviews with European and American students, colleagues, and family members, McCutchan traces his career, with particular attention to the cultural and political conditions that helped mold him. She distills a truthful and full portrait of this charismatic, complex and sometimes puzzling man.
Eight Centuries of Troubadours and Trouvères
Author: John Haines
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-07-08
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 1139451790
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 2004 book traces the changing interpretation of troubadour and trouvere music, a repertoire of songs which have successfully maintained public interest for eight centuries, from the medieval chansonniers to contemporary rap renditions. A study of their reception therefore serves to illustrate the development of the modern concept of 'medieval music'. Important stages include sixteenth-century antiquarianism, the Enlightenment synthesis of scholarly and popular traditions and the infusion of archaeology and philology in the nineteenth century, leading to more recent theories on medieval rhythm. More often than now, writers and performers have negotiated a compromise between historical research and a more imaginative approach to envisioning the music of troubadours and trouveres. This book points not so much to a resurrection of medieval music in modern times as to a continuous tradition of interpreting these songs over eight centuries.
Performing Music in the Age of Recording
Author: Robert Philip
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2004-04-10
Total Pages: 442
ISBN-13: 0300161522
DOWNLOAD EBOOKListeners have enjoyed classical music recordings for more than a century, yet important issues about recorded performances have been little explored. What is the relationship between performance and recording? How are modern audiences affected by the trends set in motion by the recording era? What is the impact of recordings on the lives of musicians? In this wide-ranging book, Robert Philip extends the scope of his earlier pioneering book, "Early Recordings and Musical Style: Changing Tastes in Instrumental Performance 1900-1950." Philip here considers the interaction between music-making and recording throughout the entire twentieth century. The author compares the lives of musicians and audiences in the years before recordings with those of today. He examines such diverse and sometimes contentious topics as changing attitudes toward freedom of expression, the authority of recordings made by or approved by composers, the globalization of performing styles, and the rise of the period instrument movement. Philip concludes with a thought-provoking discussion of the future of classical music performance.
Recording the Classical Guitar
Author: Mark Marrington
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-03-30
Total Pages: 453
ISBN-13: 1351371401
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecording the Classical Guitar charts the evolution of classical guitar recording practice from the early twentieth century to the present day, encompassing the careers of many of the instrument’s most influential practitioners from acoustic era to the advent of the CD. A key focus is on the ways in which guitarists’ recorded repertoire programmes have shaped the identity of the instrument, particularly where national allegiances and musical aesthetics are concerned. The book also considers the ways in which changing approaches to recording practice have conditioned guitarists’ conceptions of the instrument’s ideal representation in recorded form and situates these in relation to the development of classical music recording aesthetics more generally. An important addition to the growing body of literature in the field of phonomusicology, the book will be of interest to guitarists and producers as well as students of record production and historians of classical music recording.
Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Harpists
Author: Wenonah M. Govea
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 1995-06-30
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 0313369461
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe harp is both the oldest and the newest of instruments. It has existed in some form in nearly all cultures since man has made music. The contemporary concert instrument has been known since the mid-19th century. This work is a compendium of the biographies of many notable harpists of the modern era. The biographies make clear how these performers shaped the contrasts in style and technique of harp playing that have developed over the past 150 years, as cultural, social, and psychological forces influenced individual performance. In addition to the biographical information, the A-Z entries include critical reviews, discographies, and selected bibliographies where possible. New material from the former Soviet states is included.
The Modern Brass Ensemble in Twentieth-Century Britain
Author: John Miller
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2022-09-27
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 1783277343
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first study of the performance practice, repertoire and context of the modern 'brass ensemble' in the musical world.
Beyond the Score
Author: Nicholas Cook
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 0199357404
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Beyond the Score: Music as Performance, author Nicholas Cook supplants the traditional musicological notion of music as writing, asserting instead that it is as performance that music is loved, understood, and consumed. This book reconceives music as an activity through which meaning is generated in real time, as Cook rethinks familiar assumptions and develops new approaches. Focusing primarily but not exclusively on the Western 'art' tradition, Cook explores perspectives that range from close listening to computational analysis, from ethnography to the study of recordings, and from the social relations constructed through performance to the performing (and listening) body. In doing so, he reveals not only that the notion of music as text has hampered academic understanding of music, but also that it has inhibited performance practices, placing them in a textualist straightjacket. Beyond the Score has a strong historical emphasis, touching on broad developments in twentieth-century performance style and setting them into their larger cultural context. Cook also investigates the relationship between recordings and performance, arguing that we do not experience recordings as mere reproductions of a performance but as performances in their own right. Beyond the Score is a comprehensive exploration of new approaches and methods for the study of music as performance, and will be an invaluable addition to the libraries of music scholars-including musicologists, music theorists, and music cognition scholars-everywhere.
Gaston Crunelle and Flute Playing in Twentieth-Century France
Author: Leonard Garrison
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2024-09-09
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0197778534
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGaston Crunelle (1898--1990) was Professor of Flute at the Paris Conservatory from 1941 to 1969 and taught an entire generation of the world's leading flutists. A leading orchestral, chamber music, and solo flutist, his recordings are among the best of the 78-rpm and early LP eras. Gaston Crunelle and Flute Playing in Twentieth-Century France establishes Crunelle's place in history as one of the most important flutists of the twentieth century and shines light on musical life in France during his lifetime from the silent film era, through the German Occupation, to the changes in music and education since 1968.
