Performing history : approaches to history across musicology / edited by Nancy November.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

November, Nancy, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Performance--History.

Music.

Music--Interpretation (Phrasing, dynamics, etc.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 351 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Boston : Academic Studies Press, [2020]

Summary:

The fifteen essays of Performing History glimpse the diverse ways music historians “do” history, and the diverse ways in which music histories matter. This book’s chapters are structured into six key areas: historically informed performance; ethnomusicological perspectives; particular musical works that “tell,” “enact,” or “perform” war histories; operatic works that works that “tell,” “enact,” or “perform” power or enlightenment; musical works that deploy the body and a broad range of senses to convey histories; and histories involving popular music and performance. Diverse lines of evidence and manifold methodologies are represented here, ranging from traditional historical archival research to interviewing, performing, and composing. The modes of analyzing music and its associated texts represented here are as various as the kinds of evidence explored, including, for example, reading historical accounts against other contextual backdrops, and reading “between the lines” to access other voices than those provided by mainstream interpretation or traditional musicology.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

1. Some Senses of History among HIP Performers

2. Counting to Four: The flûte du quatre in Charles Dieupart’s Six Suittes (1701)

3. The French Style of Viol Bowing and the enflé in the Works of Marin Marais

4. Contextual History through Rhetorical Visuality in Performing Monteverdi’s Il pianto della Madonna

5. Celebrating and Enhancing a Virtual Past through Singing: The Polynesian Community on Takū

6. Reimagining Traditional Ritual Music of Sabah for Contemporary Performance as a Means of Conservation

7. Historical Fidelity and Creative License in two Viennese Battles of the Nile

8. Gallipoli to the Somme: A Musical Witness to History

9. Britten’s Primal Scream

10. Staging Power: The Role of Duchess Sophie Elisabeth of Braunschweig-Lüneburg (1613–76) in Wolfenbüttel Court Festivities of the 1650s

11. An Enlightened Future History on the Milan Opera Stage: Niccolò Piccinni’s Il regno della Luna

12. “A New World is Opened up to View”: Orchestral Gesture in Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette

13. Italian Futurism: Music and the Senses in the Modern Age

14. “Saxophones Sobbed Out Jazz”: New Zealand’s First Jazz Recording

15. “To Display Her Chief Accomplishment”: Domestic Manuscript Music Collections in Colonial Australia

Author Biographies

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-64469-446-8

1-64469-355-0

OCLC:

1198929001