[PDF] Historical Performance And New Music eBook

Author : Rebecca Cypess
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 29,54 MB
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 100380182X

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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.

Author : Colin Lawson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 31,54 MB
Release : 1999-11-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521627382

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A 1999 overview of historical performance, surveying issues and suggesting future developments.

Author : John Butt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 43,27 MB
Release : 2002-05-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521013581

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This challenging 2002 study examines and ultimately defends the case for historically informed musical performance.

Author : Colin Lawson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1066 pages
File Size : 13,95 MB
Release : 2012-02-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 1316184420

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The intricacies and challenges of musical performance have recently attracted the attention of writers and scholars to a greater extent than ever before. Research into the performer's experience has begun to explore such areas as practice techniques, performance anxiety and memorisation, as well as many other professional issues. Historical performance practice has been the subject of lively debate way beyond academic circles, mirroring its high profile in the recording studio and the concert hall. Reflecting the strong ongoing interest in the role of performers and performance, this History brings together research from leading scholars and historians and, importantly, features contributions from accomplished performers, whose practical experiences give the volume a unique vitality. Moving the focus away from the composers and onto the musicians responsible for bringing the music to life, this History presents a fresh, integrated and innovative perspective on performance history and practice, from the earliest times to today.

Author : Ian Inglis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 33,79 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 1351554735

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Since the emergence of rock'n'roll in the early 1950s, there have been a number of live musical performances that were not only memorable in themselves, but became hugely influential in the way they shaped the subsequent trajectory and development of popular music. Each, in its own way, introduced new styles, confronted existing practices, shifted accepted definitions, and provided templates for others to follow. Performance and Popular Music explores these processes by focusing on some of the specific occasions when such transformations occurred. An international array of scholars reveal that it is through the (often disruptive) dynamics of performance - and the interaction between performer and audience - that patterns of musical change and innovation can best be recognised. Through multi-disciplinary analyses which consider the history, place and time of each event, the performances are located within their social and professional contexts, and their immediate and long-term musical consequences considered. From the Beatles and Bob Dylan to Michael Jackson and Madonna, from Woodstock and Monterey to Altamont and Live Aid, this book provides an indispensable assessment of the importance of live performance in the practice of popular music, and an essential guide to some of the key moments in its history.

Author : Robin Stowell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,59 MB
Release : 2001-07-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521625555

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An invaluable guide to the available historical source material on playing the violin and viola.

Author : John C. Tibbetts
Publisher : Springer
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 19,93 MB
Release : 2018-09-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3319924710

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Performing Music History offers a unique perspective on music history and performance through a series of conversations with women and men intimately associated with music performance, history, and practice: the musicians themselves. Fifty-five celebrated artists—singers, pianists, violinists, cellists, flutists, horn players, oboists, composers, conductors, and jazz greats—provide interviews that encompass most of Western music history, from the Middle Ages to contemporary classical music, avant-garde innovations, and Broadway musicals. The book covers music history through lenses that include “authentic” performance, original instrumentation, and social context. Moreover, the musicians interviewed all bring to bear upon their respective subjects three outstanding qualities: 1) their high esteem in the music world as immediately recognizable names among musicians and public alike; 2) their energy and devotion to scholarship and the recovery of endangered musical heritages; and 3) their considerable skills, media savvy, and showmanship as communicators. Introductory essays to each chapter provide brief synopses of historical eras and topics. Combining careful scholarship and lively conversation, Performing Music History explores historical contexts for a host of fascinating issues.

Author : Colin Lawson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 765 pages
File Size : 20,91 MB
Release : 2021-02-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107518476

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Recent decades have seen a major increase of interest in historical performance practice, but until now there has been no comprehensive reference tool available on the subject. This fully up-to-date, illuminating and accessible volume will assist readers in rediscovering and recreating as closely as possible how musical works may originally have sounded. Focusing on performance, this Encyclopedia contains entries in categories including issues of style, techniques and practices, the history and development of musical instruments, and the work of performers, scholars, theorists, composers and editors. It features contributions from more than 100 leading experts who provide a geographically varied survey of both theory and practice, as well as evaluation of and opinions on the resolution of problems in period performance. This timely and ground breaking book will be an essential resource for students, scholars, teachers, performers and audiences.

Author : Colin James Lawson
Publisher :
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 49,31 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Performance practice (Music)
ISBN : 9780511050466

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This volume offers an overview of historical performance, surveying current issues, and suggesting future developments. Its kernel comprises discussion of the performer's primary source-materials and their interpretation, aspects of style and technique that combine to make up a well-grounded, period interpretation, and a survey of performance conditions and practices.

Author : Carol MacClintock
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 37,40 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780253144959

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..". extremely useful... In MacClintock's selections, even when the source is primarily theoretical, she chooses passages that give a lively insight into actual music-making."A -- Continuo Readings on the performance of Western music from the late middle ages to the early nineteenth century describe the accepted conventions and actual practices of former times.