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The Uses Of Rubato In Music, Eighteenth To Twentieth Centuries, Sandra P. Rosenblum
The Uses Of Rubato In Music, Eighteenth To Twentieth Centuries, Sandra P. Rosenblum
Performance Practice Review
Tempo rubato is a disregard of certain notated properties of rhythm and tempo for the sake of expressive performance. There are two basic types of rubato practices. Contrametric rubato involves a solo melody moving in subtly or equally redistributed note values (sometimes with added notes) against a steady pulse in the accompaniment. Structural or agogic rubato involves the simultaneous retardation or acceleration of tempo of the entire performing body. Theories on rubato practice from Lodovico Zacconi (1592) to Marian Sobieski and Jadwiga Sobieska (1960) are considered, as is use of rubato by composers from Giovanni da Cascia in the 14th …
The Expressive Pause: Punctuation, Rests, And Breathing In England, 1770-1850, Robert Toft
The Expressive Pause: Punctuation, Rests, And Breathing In England, 1770-1850, Robert Toft
Performance Practice Review
Examines the close relationship between the arts of singing and speaking in English treatises on singing published from the late-18th to the mid-19th c. Speech patterns are compared to the singer's practices of punctuation, rests, and breathing in order to explain the highly articulated singing style of the period.
The Expressive Pause: Punctuation, Rests, And Breathing In England 1770-1850, Robert Toft
The Expressive Pause: Punctuation, Rests, And Breathing In England 1770-1850, Robert Toft
Performance Practice Review
Examines the close relationship between the arts of singing and speaking in English treatises on singing published from the late-18th to the mid-19th c. Speech patterns are compared to the singer's practices of punctuation, rests, and breathing in order to explain the highly articulated singing style of the period."