The Pathetick Musician

Foreward: Aus der Tiefe (Geoffrey Burgess) Acknowledgements List of Musical Examples and Figures List of Audio Examples Preface: Pipe Dreams (Bruce Haynes) Part I Introduction: The Eloquent Musician (BH) The Truth in Eloquence Rhetorical Music The Pathetick Musician 'Ut pictura poesis' The Officers of Rhetoric Style Coaches Further Reading Chapter 1: In the Realm fo the Passions (GB) Humanism and the Rhetorical Ethos Seconda pratica Of Æsthetics and Beauty Autonomous Music and 'Art for Art's sake' Personally expressing passions or Passionately expressing persons? Further Reading Chapter 2: The Principles of Eloquence: The Artist's Toolbox (GB) The Offices of Rhetoric Structuring Rhetoric The Sense of Music On the possibility of a Figurenlehre Further Reading Chapter 3: Bach's Expressive Universe (GB) Imitation: Portraying and Evoking the World 'Clear running water': Schweitzer's Legacy Figuring Bach's World Bach the Poet, Bach the Painter Onomatopoeia Landscapes and 'Paintings of Life' Further Reading Chapter 4: Bach's Passionate Inner world (GB) General and Particular Expression Reading Bach's Passions Fear and Tremolo Antithesis: At Odds with oneself Polyphonies of Passions: Passions in Polyphony The Proximity of Opposites Further Reading Part II Chapter 5: Enhancing Eloquence in Performance (Elocutio) (GB) The 'Intentional Fallacy' Fallacy: Whose Intention? Elocutio: the Essence of Performance Practice 'Humouring' the score Tempo and Affekt Light and shadow Further Reading Chapter 6: Figures: Spinning straw into gold (GB) Public Speaking, Public Musicking Declamation as Figurative Speech Figures as Glosses and Ornamentation Essential Graces Graces as Glosses The Salt of Music: the Spice of Dissonance Graces as Passionate Expression Structuring Ornaments: Passaggi and Paraphrase Ornaments in History Further Reading Chapter 7: The expressive Gesture (GB) Audible architecture Articulating the Musical Gesture The Breath of Life Agogics The Agogic Accent, The Agogic Pickup, The Agogic Placement, The Hesitation Finding the Poetry in the Notes Pause to Reflect Gesture and Character Gesturing towards the Phrase Further Reading Chapter 8: Kairos: Expressive Timing (GB) Chronos and Kairos: Two kinds of time The metronome and the modern tendency toward Chronos The beat, or pulse in Baroque Music 'The true motion of the Bass' Tempo Fluctuation Borrowed time Kairos: Isolating Musical Events Timing in Dance Music Further Reading Chapter 9: To Kindle the Heart: Engagement in Performance (GB) The sovereign Audience Authentic Ears Music in the Body The Meaning of Vortrag 'The Unutterable Ravishing Soul's Delight' Dance: Une poësie muette Sincerity in Performance Mental Multitasking Further Reading Chapter 10: Analysing Expression in Recordings of Bach's cantatas (BH) Appendix: Bibliography of the Writings of Bruce Haynes General Bibliography Index