New Essays on Performance Practice
Published on 1. January 1989
Book
Paperback/Softback
267 pages
978-1-878822-13-0 (ISBN)
Description
`Demonstrates once again the qualities of perhaps the most consistently stimulating scholar of 17th and 18th-century performance practice writing today. Sure to become a standard resource in its field.' Jane Stevens, DYALEUNIVERSITY
The eighteen witty and provocative essays in this collection spanperformance issues in music from Vivaldi and Bach to Mozart and Haydn.Two survey the early music movement and the creed of authenticity,two ornamentation in the music of Haydn,and one performance problemsin music of Mozart. Other essays argue for contextual examinationof binary and ternary rhythmic conflicts, refute the attempt to universalise the application of the French principle of notes inegales, question the historical `justification' for nonvibrato singing and playing of early music, and challenge the practice of literal interpretation of ornament tables.
FREDERICK NEUMANN has since 1955 been affiliated with the University of Richmond (Virginia) as Professor Emeritus of music.
The eighteen witty and provocative essays in this collection spanperformance issues in music from Vivaldi and Bach to Mozart and Haydn.Two survey the early music movement and the creed of authenticity,two ornamentation in the music of Haydn,and one performance problemsin music of Mozart. Other essays argue for contextual examinationof binary and ternary rhythmic conflicts, refute the attempt to universalise the application of the French principle of notes inegales, question the historical `justification' for nonvibrato singing and playing of early music, and challenge the practice of literal interpretation of ornament tables.
FREDERICK NEUMANN has since 1955 been affiliated with the University of Richmond (Virginia) as Professor Emeritus of music.
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`Demonstrates once again the qualities of perhaps the most consistently stimulating scholar of 17th- and 18th-century performance practice writing today...sure to become a standard resource in its field.' `Neumann is the absolute master of detached engagement, a practitioner of boundless experience, and a historian of unequalled specialised vision. -- Alfred Mann, EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSICMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Rochester
United States
Publishing group
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 579 mm
Width: 381 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-878822-13-0 (9781878822130)
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Content
Part 1 Introduction: the rise of the Early Music movement; some controversial aspects of the authenticity school. Part 2 Problems of rhythm: conflicting binarty and ternary rhythms - from the theory of mensural notation to the music of J.S. Bach; the "Notes Inegales" revisited; Graham Pont's "paradigm of inconsistency" and the interpretation of Handel's Overtures; the rhythm in "Behold the Lamb of God". Part 3 Problems of ornamentation: remarks on Haydn's ornaments; more of Haydn's ornaments and the evidence of musical clocks; interpretation problems of ornament symbols and two recent case histories - Hans Klotz on Bach, Faye Ferguson on Mozart; some problems of Mozart ornamentation - a response to Robert Levin; authenticity and the vocal vibrato; ornamentation in the bassoon music of Vivaldi and Mozart. Part 4 Varia: Bach - progressive or conservative and the authorship of the Goldberg Aria; Mattheson on performance practice; notes on the violin sonatas of Bach and Handel. Part 5 Book reviews: Peter Brown - "Performing Haydn's "Creation""; Anthony Newman - "Bach and the Baroque"; Raymond H. Haggh - Translation of Tuerk's "Klavierschule".