Readings in the History of Music in Performance

Readings in the History of Music in Performance
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Publisher : Indiana University Press
Total Pages : 456
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ISBN-10 : 0253144957
ISBN-13 : 9780253144959
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis Readings in the History of Music in Performance by : Carol MacClintock

..". 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.

Companion to Baroque Music

Companion to Baroque Music
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 596
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ISBN-10 : 0520214145
ISBN-13 : 9780520214149
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis Companion to Baroque Music by : Julie Anne Sadie

The Companion to Baroque Music is an illuminating survey of musical life in Europe and the New World from 1600 to 1750. With informative essays on the social, national, geographical, and cultural contexts of the music and musicians of the period by such internationally known scholars as Peter Holman, Louise Stein, Michael Talbot, Julie Anne Sadie, Stanley Sadie, and David Fuller, the Companion offers a fresh perspective on the musical styles and performance practices of the Baroque era. The Companion to Baroque Music is an illuminating survey of musical life in Europe and the New World from 1600 to 1750. With informative essays on the social, national, geographical, and cultural contexts of the music and musicians of the period by such internationally known scholars as Peter Holman, Louise Stein, Michael Talbot, Julie Anne Sadie, Stanley Sadie, and David Fuller, the Companion offers a fresh perspective on the musical styles and performance practices of the Baroque era.

A Guide to Library Research in Music

A Guide to Library Research in Music
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Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Total Pages : 290
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ISBN-10 : 9781461655817
ISBN-13 : 1461655811
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis A Guide to Library Research in Music by : Pauline Shaw Bayne

A Guide to Library Research in Music introduces the process and techniques for researching and writing about music. This informative textbook provides concrete examples of different types of writing, offering a thorough introduction to music literature. It clearly describes various information-searching techniques and library-based organizational systems and introduces the array of music resources available. Each chapter concludes with learning exercises to aid the students' concept application and skill development. Appendixes provide short cuts to specific topics in library organizational systems, including Library of Congress Subject Headings and Classification. The concluding bibliography provides a quick overview of music literature and resources, emphasizing electronic and print publications since 2000, but including standard references that all music researchers should know.

Music Research

Music Research
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 360
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015073959358
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Synopsis Music Research by : Laurie J. Sampsel

Introduces music students to the major print and electronic research tools available to them both for graduate-level music bibliography or research courses and for any music courses requiring students to write research papers. It guides students to the most significant English-language research tools and resources, reference titles in major areas, and the principal sources in French, German, Italian, and Spanish.--Publisher's description.

Performing Baroque Music

Performing Baroque Music
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 255
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ISBN-10 : 9781351554657
ISBN-13 : 1351554654
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis Performing Baroque Music by : Mary Cyr

Listeners, performers, students and teachers will find here the analytical tools they need to understand and interpret musical evidence from the baroque era. Scores for eleven works, many reproduced in facsimile to illustrate the conventions of 17th and 18th century notation, are included for close study. Readers will find new material on continuo playing, as well as extensive treatment of singing and French music. The book is also a concise guide to reference materials in the field of baroque performance practice with extensive annotated bibliographies of modern and baroque sources that guide the reader toward further study. First published by Ashgate (at that time known as Scolar Press) in 1992 and having been out of print for some years, this title is now available as a print on demand title.

Aspects of Early Music and Performance

Aspects of Early Music and Performance
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 244
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015077661752
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis Aspects of Early Music and Performance by : Audrey Ekdahl Davidson

This collection draws together twelve of the best essays related to early music, some never before published, by the influential musician and music scholar Audrey Ekdahl Davidson. Davidson's insightful studies of the works of composers such as Palestrina, John Dowland, Henry Lawes, and Hildegard of Bingen appear alongside equally impressive analyses of anonymously composed pieces, including the Planctus Mariae from Cividale del Friuli in Italy, the Ludus Danielis from the Beauvais Cathedral in France, and the Danish vernacular work known as the Roskilde St. John Passion. Edited by literary scholar Clifford Davidson, Aspects of Early Music and Performance also displays Audrey Davidson's skills as critic of English Renaissance texts, with carefully considered examinations of works by Milton, Sir Philip Sidney, and George Herbert, as well as an important reconsideration of the Alma redemptoris mater sung by Chaucer's "little clergeon." At one time a professional solo soprano and the founder and longtime director of her own early music group, Davidson also writes compellingly about practical and theoretical issues related to the performance of early music, especially vocal music. Taken together, these pieces will provide musicologists and performers, as well as students of literature, with important information and fresh insights into a diverse and compelling musical tradition and the cultural and religious conditions that helped shape it. - Publisher.

The Performance of Reading

The Performance of Reading
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 176
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ISBN-10 : 9780470777282
ISBN-13 : 0470777281
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis The Performance of Reading by : Peter Kivy

The Performance of Reading argues that there are distinct analogies between "silent" reading and artistic performance, and so fashions the new role of the reader as performer. An original and insightful exploration of the act of reading by the leading scholar in the field. Discusses the history of reading and the transitions from reading aloud to reading silently, and the changing role of literature as communal, active experience to a more private endeavor.

Baroque Music

Baroque Music
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 688
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ISBN-10 : 9781351574716
ISBN-13 : 135157471X
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis Baroque Music by : Peter Walls

Research in the 20th and 21st centuries into historical performance practice has changed not just the way performers approach music of the 17th and 18th centuries but, eventually, the way audiences listen to it. This volume, beginning with a 1915 Saint-Sa? lecture on the performance of old music, sets out to capture musicological discussion that has actually changed the way Baroque music can sound. The articles deal with historical instruments, pitch, tuning, temperament, the nexus between technique and style, vibrato, the performance implications of musical scores, and some of the vexed questions relating to rhythmic alteration. It closes with a section on the musicological challenges to the ideology of the early music movement mounted (principally) in the 1990s. Leading writers on historical performance practice are represented. Recognizing that significant developments in historically-inspired performance have been led by instrument makers and performers, the volume also contains representative essays by key practitioners.

Reading Contemporary Performance

Reading Contemporary Performance
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 508
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ISBN-10 : 9781136246562
ISBN-13 : 1136246568
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Synopsis Reading Contemporary Performance by : Gabrielle Cody

As the nature of contemporary performance continues to expand into new forms, genres and media, it requires an increasingly diverse vocabulary. Reading Contemporary Performance provides students, critics and creators with a rich understanding of the key terms and ideas that are central to any discussion of this evolving theatricality. Specially commissioned entries from a wealth of contributors map out the many and varied ways of discussing performance in all of its forms – from theatrical and site-specific performances to live and New Media art. The book is divided into two sections: Concepts - Key terms and ideas arranged according to the five characteristic elements of performance art: time; space; action; performer; audience. Methodologies and Turning Points - The seminal theories and ways of reading performance, such as postmodernism, epic theatre, feminisms, happenings and animal studies. Case Studies – entries in both sections are accompanied by short studies of specific performances and events, demonstrating creative examples of the ideas and issues in question. Three different introductory essays provide multiple entry points into the discussion of contemporary performance, and cross-references for each entry also allow the plotting of one’s own pathway. Reading Contemporary Performance is an invaluable guide, providing not just a solid set of familiarities, but an exploration and contextualisation of this broad and vital field.

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Library of Congress Subject Headings
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 1400
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ISBN-10 : OSU:32435070761028
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis Library of Congress Subject Headings by : Library of Congress