This volume offers an up-to-date overview of historical performance, surveying the various current issues (such as the influence of recording) and suggesting possible future developments. Its core comprises discussion of the period performer's myriad primary source materials and their interpretation, the various aspects of style and general technique that combine to make up a well-grounded, period interpretation, and a survey of performance conditions and practices, focusing on the period c. 1700-c. 1900. Many of the principles outlined are illustrated in case studies of works by Bach, Mozart, Berlioz and Brahms.
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"This book presents a concise overview of the main topics of historical performance practice. It is rather remarkable how the authors, in little over 200 pages, address so many practical issues of historical performance practice and help the reader get a firm grip on the main ideas of some rather complex topics. Lawson and Stowell have presented a fine study of performance practice and we look forward to other forthcoming volumes in the series, particularly John Humphries' The Early Horn: A Practical Introduction. Jeffrey Nussbaum, Historic Brass Society Newsletter
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This volume offers an up-to-date overview of historical performance, surveying the various current issues (such as the influence of recording) and suggesting possible future developments. Its kernel comprises discussion of the performer's myriad primary source materials and their interpretation, the various aspects of style and general technique that combine to make up a well-grounded, period interpretation, and a survey of performance conditions and practices, focusing on the period c. 1700 c. 1900. Many of the principles outlined are illustrated in case-studies of works by Bach, Mozart, Berlioz and Brahms.
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In order to do justice to the piece which he is about to perform, the player must first acquaint himself with the conditions under which it originated. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
extempore embellishment, choir pitch, chamber pitch, continuo group, canto figurato, improvised ornamentation, basset horns, continuo accompaniment, tempo rubato, metronome marks, rhythmic alteration, performing forces, historical performance, dotted figures, period instruments, early music, cor anglais, basso continuo, embellished versions, equal temperament, dynamic markings, performance practice Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Leopold Mozart, Symphonie Fantastique, Second Symphony, Paris Conservatoire, Bach's St Matthew Passion, Gustav Leonhardt, Handel's Messiah, Vienna Philharmonic, Concerts du Conservatoire, Georg Henschel, Hans Richter, Laurence Dreyfus, The New Grove New!
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In order to do justice to the piece which he is about to perform, the player must first acquaint himself with the conditions under which it originated. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
extempore embellishment, choir pitch, chamber pitch, continuo group, canto figurato, improvised ornamentation, basset horns, continuo accompaniment, tempo rubato, metronome marks, rhythmic alteration, performing forces, historical performance, dotted figures, period instruments, early music, cor anglais, basso continuo, embellished versions, equal temperament, dynamic markings, performance practice Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Leopold Mozart, Symphonie Fantastique, Second Symphony, Paris Conservatoire, Bach's St Matthew Passion, Gustav Leonhardt, Handel's Messiah, Vienna Philharmonic, Concerts du Conservatoire, Georg Henschel, Hans Richter, Laurence Dreyfus, The New Grove New!
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- Performance Practice (New Grove Handbooks in Music) by Howard Mayer Brown on 15 pages
- The Aesthetics of Music by Roger Scruton on 4 pages
- Johann Sebastian Bach (World's Great Composers) by Charlotte Gray in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Interpretation of Music by Thurston Dart in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Figured Bass Accompaniment by Peter Williams in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- The Early Violin and Viola: A Practical Guide (Cambridge Handbooks to the Historical Performance of Music) by Robin Stowell on 4 pages
- The Early Horn: A Practical Guide (Cambridge Handbooks to the Historical Performance of Music) by John Humphries on 4 pages
- The Cambridge Companion to the Orchestra (Cambridge Companions to Music) by Colin Lawson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The House of Novello: Practice and Policy of a Victorian Music Publisher, 1829-1866 (Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain) (Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain) by Victoria L. Cooper on page 29, and Back Matter
- The Cambridge Companion to the Concerto (Cambridge Companions to Music) by Simon P. Keefe in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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