Classical and Romantic performing practice 1750-1900 / Clive Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Clive, 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Performance practice (Music)--History--18th century.

Performance practice (Music).

Performance practice (Music)--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (677 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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. Clive Brown here identifies areas in which musical notation conveyed rather different messages to the musicians for whom it was written thanit does to modern performers, and seeks to look beyond the notation to understand how composers might have expected

Contents:

CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 ACCENTUATION IN THEORY; Categories of Accentuation; 2 ACCENTUATION IN PRACTICE; Indications of Accent; Types of Accent and their Realization; 3 THE NOTATION OF ACCENTS AND DYNAMICS; Italian Terms and Abbreviations as Accents; Signs as Accent Markings; 4 ARTICULATION AND PHRASING; 5 ARTICULATION AND EXPRESSION; Staccato, Legato, and Non-Legato (or 'Non-Staccato'?); Unmarked Notes Implying Slurs; Sciolto and Non legato; Implied Non-Legato or 'Non-Staccato'; 6 THE NOTATION OF ARTICULATION AND PHRASING; Dots and Strokes as Articulation Marks; Other Articulation Marks

Slurs and ArticulationArticulated Slurs; 7 STRING BOWING; 8 TEMPO; Choice of Tempo; Late Eighteenth-Century and Early Nineteenth-Century Tempo Conventions; Late Eighteenth-Century Tempo; Beethoven's Tempo Preferences; The Impact of the Metronome; Nineteenth-Century Tempo Conventions; 9 ALLA BREVE; 10 TEMPO TERMS; Slow Tempo Terms; Andante and Andantino; Moderate Tempo Terms; Fast Tempo Terms; Other Terms Affecting Tempo; 11 TEMPO MODIFICATION; Types of Tempo Modification; Tempo Rubato as Arhythmical Embellishment; 12 EMBELLISHMENT, ORNAMENTATION, AND IMPROVISATION

13 APPOGGIATURAS, TRILLS, TURNS, AND RELATED ORNAMENTSAppoggiaturas and Grace-Notes; Trills, Turns, and Related Ornaments; 14 VIBRATO; Changing Attitudes towards Vibrato; Types of Vibrato and their Application; Speed and Intensity of Vibrato; The Notation of Vibrato; Vibrato in Orchestral and Ensemble Music; 15 PORTAMENTO; Types of Portamento; Portamento in the Music of the Period; 16 PARALIPOMENA; The Fermata; Recitative; Arpeggiation; The Variable Dot and Other Aspects of Rhythmic Flexibility; Heavy and Light Performance; Postscript; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L

MN; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [633]-644) and index.

ISBN:

9786610766055

9780191541704

0191541702

9781280766053

1280766050

OCLC:

560568957