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José Bowen's Essay: A Few Afterthoughts, Roland Jackson
José Bowen's Essay: A Few Afterthoughts, Roland Jackson
Performance Practice Review
RILM abstarct: "Performance practice might benefit from CHARM (The Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music) particularly because of the access it affords to a wide range of recordings. Scholars can thereby more extensively compare, for example, composer's recordings of their own works. For practices of the early 20th c. the recordings of various composers (e.g., Grieg, Skrjabin, Elgar) may be taken as instructive models."
Invoking A Past Or Imposing A Present? Two Views Of Performance Practice, Roland Jackson
Invoking A Past Or Imposing A Present? Two Views Of Performance Practice, Roland Jackson
Performance Practice Review
RILM abstract: "Richard Taruskin has characterized performance practice or historical performance as not truly historical, but rather as a reflection of a mid-20th-c. Zeitgeist dominated by Stravinsky. In contrast with this presentist view, wherein spontaneous performance, the act, is deemed the highest value, the historicist view affirms that music (along with art works generally) is endowed with a quality of permanent value independent of how it was regarded in its own time or how people react to it now. Historicist performance practice holds that a composer's intention (the autonomous work) is rediscoverable, at least in part, and that the manner …
Performance Practice Versus Performance Analysis: Why Should Performers Study Performance, José Antonio Bowen
Performance Practice Versus Performance Analysis: Why Should Performers Study Performance, José Antonio Bowen
Performance Practice Review
RILM abstract: "The descriptive study of performance analysis and performance history differs from the usually prescriptive field of performance practice. The investigation of musical performance can be divided into three layers: general period and geographic styles, the traditions which become attached to specific works, and individual innovations. Features of the first two are transparent to performers and listeners from the same period, but they determine most of the features of a performance. Performance style is like a linguistic accent; we can no more let the music speak for itself than we can speak words without some accent. Since performance traditions …