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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 …
"Early Recordings And Musical Style: Chaning Tastes In Instrumental Performance, 1900-1950." By Robert Philip, Douglas Leedy
"Early Recordings And Musical Style: Chaning Tastes In Instrumental Performance, 1900-1950." By Robert Philip, Douglas Leedy
Performance Practice Review
Leedy discusses and reviews Philip's 1992 book.
Tempo Gradations In Purcell's Sonatas, Mary Cyr
Tempo Gradations In Purcell's Sonatas, Mary Cyr
Performance Practice Review
"Both the Italian tempo indications in Purcell's sonatas and the occasional English words in the fantasias imply differences of character as well as speed. The melodic and harmonic motion, and the presence of dissonance or chromaticism serve as superior guides to the finer nuances of speed and Articulation than does the examination of meter. Several of the apparent inconsistencies in Purcell's tempo marks may be resolved when they are considered in the context of three categories--fast, moderate, and slow."
"Wagner In Performance." Eds. Barry Millington And Stewart Spencer, José Antonio Bowen
"Wagner In Performance." Eds. Barry Millington And Stewart Spencer, José Antonio Bowen
Performance Practice Review
A brief review of Barry Millington and Stewart Spencer's book "Wagner in Performance."
"New Essays On Performance Practice." By Frederick Neumann, Erich Schwandt
"New Essays On Performance Practice." By Frederick Neumann, Erich Schwandt
Performance Practice Review
Schwandt discusses and reviews Neumann's 1989 book.
"The Early Mandolin: The Mandolino And The Neapolitan Mandoline." By James Tyler And Paul Sparks, Donald Gill
"The Early Mandolin: The Mandolino And The Neapolitan Mandoline." By James Tyler And Paul Sparks, Donald Gill
Performance Practice Review
Gill discusses and reviews Tyler and Spark's 1989 book.
"J. S. Bach As Organist: His Instruments, Music And Performance Practices" George Stauffer And Ernest May, Eds., Kimberly Marshall
"J. S. Bach As Organist: His Instruments, Music And Performance Practices" George Stauffer And Ernest May, Eds., Kimberly Marshall
Performance Practice Review
Marshall discusses and reviews Stauffer and May's 1986 book.
"Bel Canto: The Teaching Of The Classical Italian Song-Schools, Its Decline And Restoration" By Lucie Manén, Philip Lieson Miller
"Bel Canto: The Teaching Of The Classical Italian Song-Schools, Its Decline And Restoration" By Lucie Manén, Philip Lieson Miller
Performance Practice Review
Miller discusses and reviews Manén's 1987 book.
Performance Practice: A Manifestation Of Our Time?, Roland Jackson
Performance Practice: A Manifestation Of Our Time?, Roland Jackson
Performance Practice Review
Contrasts the antihistorical, conceptualist attitude (treating the past as our conception of it) of certain performance critics with the historical, realist position (holding that a discoverable reality can be found in the past) of certain performance-practice exponents.
"The Performance Of The Basso Continuo In Italian Baroque Music" By Tharald Borgir, John Walter Hill
"The Performance Of The Basso Continuo In Italian Baroque Music" By Tharald Borgir, John Walter Hill
Performance Practice Review
Hill discusses and reviews Borgir's 1987 book.
The Present Position Of Authenticity, Robert Donington
The Present Position Of Authenticity, Robert Donington
Performance Practice Review
"Though there continues to be lively debate as to how historically correct performances of early music can or should be, the success of so-called authenticity in today's musical culture is undeniable.(Zohn, Steven)"
Concerning The Performance Of Mozart's Concert Arias K. 294 And K. 528, Nicole Baker
Concerning The Performance Of Mozart's Concert Arias K. 294 And K. 528, Nicole Baker
Performance Practice Review
Vocal treatises of the 18th c. and recent research suggest that Mozart's concert arias should be embellished with restraint. Appropriate ornaments include turns, filling-in patterns, appoggiaturas, and short cadences at elongated fermatas. Two arias--Alcandro lo confesso...Non so d'onde viene, K.294, and Bella mia fiamma...Resta, o cara, K.528--are discussed in more detail.
A Response From The Custodians: More Thoughts On The Stanford Temperaments, Robert Bates, Kimberly Marshall
A Response From The Custodians: More Thoughts On The Stanford Temperaments, Robert Bates, Kimberly Marshall
Performance Practice Review
"Mark Lindley's suggestions for modifying the temperaments of Stanford's Fisk organ, abstracted as RILM 7410, are helpful, although other solutions may be more desirable. A third temperament for French music might be added to the organ's meantone and well-temperaments.(Zohn, Steven)"