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 Stylus Phantasticus and Free Keyboard Music of the North German Baroque

The Stylus Phantasticus and Free Keyboard Music of the North German Baroque
Author: Paul Collins
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1351540211

The concept of stylus phantasticus (or ?fantastic style?) as it was expressed in free keyboard music of the north German Baroque forms the focus of this book. Exploring both the theoretical background to the style and its application by composers and performers, Paul Collins surveys the development of Athanasius Kircher?s original concept and its influence on music theorists such as Brossard, Janovka, Mattheson, and Walther. Turning specifically to fantasist composers of keyboard works, the book examines the keyboard toccatas of Merulo, Fresobaldi, Rossi and Froberger and their influence on north German organists Tunder, Weckmann, Reincken, Buxtehude, Bruhns, Lubeck, Bohm, and Leyding. The free keyboard music of this distinguished group highlights the intriguing relationship at this time between composition and performance, the concept of fantasy, and the understanding of originality and individuality in seventeenth-century culture.

Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments

Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments
Author: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Total Pages: 449
Release: 1949
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780393097160

J. S. Bach's musician son explains the technique for performing eighteenth-century compositions, discussing fingering, embellishments, bass, and accompaniment

C.P.E. Bach

C.P.E. Bach
Author: David Schulenberg
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 542
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351572806

The second son of Johann Sebastian Bach, C.P.E. Bach was an important composer in his own right, as well as a writer and performer on keyboard instruments. He composed roughly a thousand works in all the leading genres of the period, with the exception of opera, and Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven all acknowledged his influence. He was also the author of a two-volume encyclopedic book about performance on keyboard instrument. C.P.E. Bach and his music have always been the subject of significant scholarship and publication but interest has sharply increased over the past two or three decades from performers as well as music historians. This volume incorporates important writings not only on the composer and his chief works but also on theoretical issues and performance questions. The focus throughout is on relatively recent scholarship otherwise available only in hard-to-access sources.

Sara Levy's World

Sara Levy's World
Author: Rebecca Cypess
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2018
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1580469213

A rich interdisciplinary exploration of the world of Sara Levy, a Jewish salonnière and skilled performing musician in late eighteenth-century Berlin, and her impact on the Bach revival, German-Jewish life, and Enlightenment culture.

Acting on the Past

Acting on the Past
Author: Mark Franko
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2000-02-28
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780819563958

Leading scholars redefine the scope and concerns of scholarship on historical performance.

Janáček and Czech Music

Janáček and Czech Music
Author: Michael Brim Beckerman
Publisher: Pendragon Press
Total Pages: 424
Release: 1995
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780945193364

In the first week of May 1988, more than seventy scholars and musicians from five countries gathered at Washington University in St. Louis to participate in the first conference and festival ever to take place in the United States on the Moravian composer Leos Janácek. This volume, arranged in seven parts, is a collection of thirty-five of the papers presented at the conference. It is the first large collection of essays in English concerning Janácek's music, and the only collection of proceedings from a Janácek symposium to be published in the last twenty-five years... most of its essays deal with Janácek's music, while some with other Czech music, mostly from before the time of Bedrich Smetana. This breadth of scope is not a weakness of either the conference or the volume, since it places Janácek in historical perspective, and since the articles that deal with the earlier music are among the best in the volume and are deserving of a forum. John K. Novak, Notes June 1996

The Music of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach

The Music of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
Author: David Schulenberg
Publisher: University Rochester Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2010
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1580463592

The first book in nearly a century dedicated to a close examination of the musical works of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, first son of Johann Sebastian Bach.