Classical and Romantic Performing Practice 1750-1900
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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 25 November 1999
- ISBN 9780198161653
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages676 pages
- Size 241x162x41 mm
- Weight 1097 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 5 figures, numerous music examples 0
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Short description:
This is an essential book for all performers and students of Classical and Romantic music. Problems of performing practice did not disappear with the death of Handel. This book is the first to examine the changing relationship, during the period 1750-1900, between what composers committed to paper and what performers were expected to play.
From the Foreword by Sir Roger Norrington:
`This is the book we have been waiting for ... Music-making must always involve guesses and inspirations, creative hunches and improvised strategies, above all, instinct and imagination. But if we don't have all the answers, the least we can do is to set out on our journey with the right questions. These questions and indeed many of the possible answers, Clive Brown gives in wonderful profusion. I cannot recommend this book too highly.'
Long description:
The 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. Clive 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 was more radically different from ours than is generally assumed.
This is an essential book for all performers and students of Classical and Romantic music.
this useful and important new book.
Table of Contents:
Foreword
Introduction
Accentuation in Theory
Accentuation in Practice
The Notation of Accents and Dynamics
Articulation
Articulation and Expression
The Notation of Articulation and Phrasing
String Bowing
Tempo
Alla Breve
Tempo Terms
Tempo Modification
Embellishment, Ornamentation, and Improvisation
Appoggiaturas, Trills, Turns, and Related Ornaments
Vibrato
Portamento
The fermata; Recitative; Arpeggiation; The Variable Dot and Other Aspects of Rhythmic Flexibility; Heavy and Light Performance
Index
