Cadenzas

Cadenzas
Author: Andrea Poma
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2017-04-24
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3319528122

This book examines the concepts behind a philosophical project on postmodernism: the social and cultural condition of our time, the age of the achieved capitalism. It proposes an original theory of postmodern humanism based on the absence of form and describes the development of philosophical thought as a musical “cadenza” that produces meaning in the empty space between the past of the modern and the future of the postmodern. The book focuses on three main postmodernist themes: the denial of identity and the assertion of the differences, the shattered subject, and the absence of teleology in history and politics.

The Complete Original Cadenzas to the Piano Concertos

The Complete Original Cadenzas to the Piano Concertos
Author: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 156
Release: 1996-08-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781457454356

Many of Mozart's own cadenzas are preserved, but many more that he improvised in performance were never written down. In that spirit, famed pianist Lili Kraus sensed an obligation and a challenge to follow the tradition of using her own cadenzas where no original was available. This collection, then contains Mozart's original cadenzas as well as editorial versions by Ms. Kraus for Concertos 1-27.

Performance Practice

Performance Practice
Author: Roland Jackson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 552
Release: 2013-10-23
Genre: Music
ISBN: 113676769X

Performance practice is the study of how music was performed over the centuries, both by its originators (the composers and performers who introduced the works) and, later, by revivalists. This first of its kind Dictionary offers entries on composers, musiciansperformers, technical terms, performance centers, musical instruments, and genres, all aimed at elucidating issues in performance practice. This A-Z guide will help students, scholars, and listeners understand how musical works were originally performed and subsequently changed over the centuries. Compiled by a leading scholar in the field, this work will serve as both a point-of-entry for beginners as well as a roadmap for advanced scholarship in the field.

The Classical Woodwind Cadenza

The Classical Woodwind Cadenza
Author: David Lasocki
Publisher:
Total Pages: 78
Release: 1978
Genre: Cadences (Music)
ISBN:

Many modern performers of Classical woodwind music use cadenzas that have a harmonic vocabulary, length, range and expression more suitable for late Romantic than Classical music. The Romantic period directly followed the Classical one, and its performer-composers wrote cadenzas in the style of their own music for use in their performances of earlier music. Hummel's cadenzas for Mozart's piano concertos are prime examples. In the same spirit, the modern performer separated in time from both Classical and Romantic performance practices would compose cadenzas in a style familiar to him, such as avant-garde or rock! The particular goal of this workbook is to show modern woodwind players how to compose effective cadenzas in the Classical style for the Classical concertos they perform -- the concertos by Mozart and his contemporaries. - Preface.

Interpreting Mozart

Interpreting Mozart
Author: Eva Badura-Skoda
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 579
Release: 2018-12-07
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1135868506

Originally published in German as Interpreting Mozart on the Keyboard in 1957, this definitive work on the performance of Mozart's works has greatly influenced students and scholars of keyboard literature and of Mozart. Now, in a completely updated and revised edition, this book includes the last half century of scholarship on Mozart's music, addressing the elements of performance and problems that may occur in performing Mozart's works on modern instruments.

Unfinished Music

Unfinished Music
Author: Richard Kramer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2012-07-12
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0199917884

Unfinished Music explores with subtle insight the uneasy relationship between the finished work and the elusive, provocative traces of the profound labors buried in its past.