Performing Music in the Age of Recording / Robert Philip.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Philip, Robert, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Performance practice (Music)--History--20th century.

Performance practice (Music).

Sound recordings in musicology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2004]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Listeners have enjoyed classical music recordings for more than a century, yet important issues about recorded performances have been little explored. What is the relationship between performance and recording? How are modern audiences affected by the trends set in motion by the recording era? What is the impact of recordings on the lives of musicians? In this wide-ranging book, Robert Philip extends the scope of his earlier pioneering book, Early Recordings and Musical Style: Changing Tastes in Instrumental Performance 1900-1950. Philip here considers the interaction between music-making and recording throughout the entire twentieth century.The author compares the lives of musicians and audiences in the years before recordings with those of today. He examines such diverse and sometimes contentious topics as changing attitudes toward freedom of expression, the authority of recordings made by or approved by composers, the globalization of performing styles, and the rise of the period instrument movement. Philip concludes with a thought-provoking discussion of the future of classical music performance.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Life before Recordings

2. The Experience of Recording

3. Ensemble and Freedom: Orchestras

4. Ensemble and Freedom: Chamber Groups and Pianists

5. Questions of Authority: the Composer

6. Questions of Authority: Schools of Playing

7. Questions of Authority: the Archaeological Approach

8. Listening Back: Lessons from the Twentieth Century

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

1-280-57144-6

9786613601049

0-300-16152-2

OCLC:

795707686