Reimagine to revitalise : new approaches to performance practices across cultures / Charulatha Mani.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mani, Charulatha, author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in twenty-first century music practice, 2633-4585.

Cambridge elements. Elements in twenty-first century music practice, 2633-4585

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vocal music--Cross-cultural studies.

Vocal music.

Music--Cross-cultural studies.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (86 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

How can the classical Karnatik music of South India illuminate performers' and researchers' understanding of the art music of seventeenth-century Italy, and specifically Monteverdi's operas? Both art forms attach great value to the skill of vocal ornamentation, and by exploring the singer's practice moving between them, this Element reveals how intercultural approaches can enable the reconsideration of the history of Western music from a global perspective. Using methods from historical and comparative musicology, theory and practice-based research, Charulatha Mani analyses vocal ornamentation and technique and arrives at an innovative approach to studying musics from the past. Musical practice, the author argues, is an enactment of hybridity and the artistic product of plurality. Specifically, in early modern Europe the fluid movement of musicians from the East paved the way to a plurality of musical cultures. This finding holds deep implications for diversity in and decolonisation of current music performance and education.

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright page

Reimagine to Revitalise: New Approaches to Performance Practices across Cultures

Contents

1 The Pressing Need: An Interrogation of Practices

2 Understanding Monteverdi's Poetic Aesthetic

Revisiting the Ways of the Ancients

Peri's L'Euridice (1600): The Birth of Recitar Cantando

Monteverdi's Word-Setting and his Seconda Prattica (Second Practice)

Writing for Vocal Performers: Prevalent Vocal Performance Cultures in Italy

Performance-Inflected Compositional Style

Overarching Musicality

3 Developing a Conceptual Framework for Hybridity

My Musical Language: Karnatik Raga

The Decahedral Framework of Hybridity

Rhetorical Style and Construct of Musical Form

Melodic Material: Modality, Tonality, and Ragas

Consonance and Dissonance as Dramatic Devices

Continuo and the Harmonic Sphere of Prayoga

Poetic Construct

Syllabic Forward Motion and Laya

Instrumentation.

Ornamentation

Oratione, Affect, and Rasa

Sprezzatura and Sowkhya

Summation

4 The Powerful Spirit of Ornamentation

Surface-Level Comparisons of the Karnatik and Pre-Romantic Voice

Delving Deeper: Juxtapositions of Ornamentation Varieties

Progressing into the Micro Level: Brigha and Gorgie

Experiencing the Comparisons through Practical Experimentation

Embodying the Ornate

5 Reimagination: Critiques, Opportunities, Conclusions

Conclusions: Reimagined Connections

Appendix A Dimensions of Interaction in Karnatik Music and Early Opera

References

Acknowledgements.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Jul 2021).

ISBN:

1-108-91062-9

1-108-90390-8

OCLC:

1266904835