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Classical and Romantic Performing Practice 1750-1900
Clive Brown,Roger Norrington +1 more
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In this paper, the authors present a formal notation for accentuation in theory and in practice: the Notation of Accents and Dynamics, Articulation and Expression, String Bowing, and Alla Breve.Abstract:
Foreword Introduction 1. Accentuation in Theory 2. Accentuation in Practice 3. The Notation of Accents and Dynamics 4. Articulation 5. Articulation and Expression 6. The Notation of Articulation and Phrasing 7. String Bowing 8. Tempo 9. Alla Breve 10. Tempo Terms 11. Tempo Modification 12. Embellishment, Ornamentation, and Improvisation 13. Appoggiaturas, Trills, Turns, and Related Ornaments 14. Vibrato 15. Portamento 16. The fermata Recitative Arpeggiation The Variable Dot and Other Aspects of Rhythmic Flexibility Heavy and Light Performance Indexread more
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Ecstatic anthems: music and the persistence of enchantment in modern america
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a table of acknowledgements of the Dissertation of the same author, along with a Table of Table 1 of the dissertations of the authors.
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“To Play as if from the Soul of the Composer”: The Idea of the Performer in Early Romantic Aesthetics
TL;DR: Performance discourse in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries (i.e., writing about interpretative performance in treatises, reviews, dictionaries, articles, and philosophical works) is distinct from that in both earlier and later periods as discussed by the authors.
Vital performance: Culture, worldview, and romanticist performance practice with application in Franz Liszt’s Consolations and Années de Pèlerinage Première Année
TL;DR: In this paper, a detailed reconstruction of Romanticist style is made with attention to primary sources, including historical recordings, and a nomenclature for score annotation and an analytical paradigm for identification and application of romanticist performance characteristics are proposed.
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Beggar at the Door: The Rise and Fall of Portamento in Singing
TL;DR: In this paper, a short case study of portamento in twentieth-century performances of Schubert's 'Standchen' from Schwanengesang is presented, and explanations offer as to why something considered for several hundred years to be essential to good singing is now rarely taught or practised.
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A History of Singing
John Potter,Neil Sorrell +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present Imagined Voices: Mythology and Muses, a collection of historical voices from classical singing in the nineteenth and early twenty-first centuries, with a focus on the emerging soloist and the primacy of text.