Historical Performance and New Music by Cypess, Rebecca; Gomez, Estelí; Lansang, Rachael;

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The worlds of new music and historically informed performance might seem quite distant from one another. Yet, upon closer consideration, clear points of convergence emerge. This book addresses the synergies in aesthetics and practices in historical performance and new music.

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The worlds of new music and historically informed performance might seem quite distant from one another. Yet, upon closer consideration, clear points of convergence emerge. Not only do many contemporary performers move easily between these two worlds, but they often do so using a shared ethos of flexibility, improvisation, curiosity, and collaboration—collaboration with composers past and present, with other performers, and with audiences.

Bringing together expert scholars and performers considering a wide range of issues and case studies, Historical Performance and New Music—the first book of its kind—addresses the synergies in aesthetics and practices in historical performance and new music. The essays treat matters including technologies and media such as laptops, printing presses, and graphic notation; new music written for period instruments from natural horns to the clavichord; personalities such as the pioneering singer Cathy Berberian; the musically “omnivorous” ensembles A Far Cry and Roomful of Teeth; and composers Luciano Berio, David Lang, Molly Herron, Caroline Shaw, and many others.

Historical Performance and New Music presents pathbreaking ideas in an accessible style that speaks to performers, composers, scholars, and music lovers alike. Richly documented and diverse in its methods and subject matter, this book will open new conversations about contemporary musical life.

The early music revival and the new music scene have been inspiring each other and cross-pollinating for several decades.　Historical Performance and New Music: Aesthetics and Practices　presents a groundbreaking and comprehensive exploration of the dynamic relationship between these two domains by bringing together first-hand testimonies from some of the most authoritative, experienced, and original voices in both scholarship and practice. This pioneering work delves into the intertwining threads that connect early and new music, shedding new light on performance practice, instrumentarium, and notation. It is a must-read for composers and performers immersed in both realms, encouraging a reevaluation of the historical context of the early music revival and a broader outlook on contemporary repertoire, to the extent of redefining the boundaries of historical performance.

-Alon Schab, author of A Performer's Guide to Transcribing, Editing and Arranging Early Music

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List of Figures

Introduction

REBECCA CYPESS

1 Unfixed Media: On the Aesthetics of HIP and Interactive Computer Music

KIMARY FICK AND JASON FICK

2 Open-Source Performance Practice: The Laptop as an Instrument of Musical Democracy

DRAKE ANDERSEN

3 Minimalism and the Post-War Early Music Revival

LOREN LUDWIG

4 Historical Performance and the Ethos of Graphic Notation: Reading Pre-Twentieth-Century Scores through the Lens of an Avant-Garde Notation

DAVID HYUN-SU KIM, ELLY TOYODA, AND REBECCA CYPESS

5 Parallel and Contemporary Vocal Practices: Vibrato, Historically Informed Performance, and New Music

RACHAEL LANSANG AND ERIC RICE

6 A Contemporary Lesson from an Ancient Flute: Tradition as a Key to Innovation

MATTEO GEMOLO

7 The Evolution of Modern Clavichord Music

FRANCIS KNIGHTS

8 A Natural Horn Revival in Contemporary Composition and Performance

J. DREW STEPHEN

9 Technology and/as Community in Molly Herron’s Through Lines (2021)

REBECCA CYPESS

10 Feeding the Flexible Omnivore: Collaborative Systems in A Far Cry and Roomful of Teeth

ESTELÍ GOMEZ AND SARAH DARLING

11 The Early Music Vocality of Cathy Berberian

KAILAN R. RUBINOFF

12 The Confrontation of Old and New in Lost Objects

VICTORIA ASCHHEIM

Bibliography, Audio, and Audio-Visual Sources

Index