Performance Practices in the Classical Era - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Performance Practices in the Classical Era write by Dennis Shrock. This book was released on 2011. Performance Practices in the Classical Era available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Classical era, from 1751 to the 1830s and beyond, is one of the most revolutionary and creative times in the history of music. However, critical details about the performance of music during this extraordinary time have too often been lost to generations of re-interpretation, opinionated colorings, and changes in fashion and taste. In this remarkable volume, noted scholar and choral conductor, Dennis Shrock brings together in one place writings from more than 100 Classical-era authors and composers about performance practices of music during their time. These primary sources represent the entire time span of the Classical era, writings from throughout Europe and the United States, and details on virtually every type of performing medium and genre of composition common in the era. Dr. Shrock quotes from diaries, instruction books, dictionaries, letters, biographies, and essays all written during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Dr. Shrock organizes all of these comments - complete with detailed music examples - in sections devoted to sound, tempo, articulation and phrasing, metric accentuation, rhythmic alteration, ornamentation, and expression. What emerges is an insightful and colorful portrait certain to assist anyone who seeks to better understand the music of Mozart, Haydn, and other noted composers. Performance Practices in the Classical Era is a vital resource for any conductor, performer, or aficionado of classical music.
Performance Practices in Classic Piano Music
Performance Practices in Classic Piano Music - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Performance Practices in Classic Piano Music write by Sandra P. Rosenblum. This book was released on 1988-11-22. Performance Practices in Classic Piano Music available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Performance today on either the pianoforte or the fortepiano can be at once joyful, musicianly, expressive, and historically informed. From this point of view, Sandra P. Rosenblum examines the principles of performing the music of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and their contemporaries as revealed in a variety of historical sources: their autographs and letters, early editions of their music, original instruments, and contemporary tutors and journals. She applies these findings to such elements of performance as dynamics, accentuation, pedaling, articulation and touch, technique and fingering, ornaments and embellishments, choice of tempo, and tempo flexibility. Familiarity with the Classic conventions provides a framework for interpretation and an understanding of the choices available within the style, the amount of freedom a performer has, and which areas are ambiguous. Rosenblum's detailed study, copiously illustrated with musical examples, is invaluable for professional and amateur performers, serious piano students and their teachers and students of performance practices by Scarlatti and Clementi. " . . . is and will remain unsurpassed as the study dealing with performance practice as it pertains to keyboard music of the Classical period." —American Music Teacher "Rosenblum's monumental achievement is thorough, objective, balanced, and imaginative, a compelling blend of love and respect for the solo, chamber, and concerto literature she addresses." —Journal of Musicological Research "The extent and quality of her research, the depth of her perception, and her musicianship together break new ground in the study of historic performance practice." —Early Keyboard Journal "Her attention to details is absolutely scrupulous; no stone unturned, no argument unquestioned or unstated." —The Musical Times "Its importance to thoughtful musicians cannot be overstated." —Choice " . . . thoroughly musicological." —Performance Practice Review " . . . indispensable . . . " —New York Times
Classical and Romantic Performing Practice 1750-1900
Classical and Romantic Performing Practice 1750-1900 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Classical and Romantic Performing Practice 1750-1900 write by Clive Brown. This book was released on 2004-05-20. Classical and Romantic Performing Practice 1750-1900 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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. 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 were more radically different from ours than is generally assumed.
Performance Practices in the Baroque Era
Performance Practices in the Baroque Era - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Performance Practices in the Baroque Era write by Dennis Shrock. This book was released on 2013. Performance Practices in the Baroque Era available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Baroque Era, stretching from 1600 to the 1750s, is a truly beloved time in the history of classical music, featuring works of Bach, Vivaldi, Monteverdi, and many more. However, critical details about the performance of music during the extraordinary time have been lost to generations of re-interpretation, opinionated colorings, and changes in fashion and taste. In this book, a companion to Performance Practices in the Classical Era, noted scholar and choral conductor Dennis Shrock brings together in one place treatises, primers, tutorials, letters, prefaces, and essays from the period to paint a detailed and informative portrait of this wonderful music as it was originally intended and experienced. The primary sources represent the entire time period of the Baroque era spanning all across Europe. Dr. Shrock expertly organizes these writings and music examples according to musical context: sections devoted to sound, tempo, articulation and phrasing, metric accentuation, rhythmic alteration, ornamentation, and expression.
Performance Practice: Music after 1600
Performance Practice: Music after 1600 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Performance Practice: Music after 1600 write by Howard Mayer Brown. This book was released on 1989. Performance Practice: Music after 1600 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
