
The Violin
Robert Riggs(Editor)
University of Rochester Press
Published on 15. November 2016
Book
Hardback
326 pages
978-1-58046-506-9 (ISBN)
Description
Provides new perspectives on the violin's beloved concert repertoire, its diverse roles in indigenous musical traditions on four continents, and its metaphorical presence in visual arts and literature.
With a colorful history that spans 450 years, the violin has proven to be one of the world's most important and versatile instruments. Addressed to performing musicians, serious concertgoers, and collectors of recordings, The Violin offers insightful, up-to-date essays on a wide range of topics. Essays discuss beloved masterpieces from the violin's solo repertoire, with individual chapters on the Italian Baroque, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, and the violin concerto in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as the evolution of performance styles and interpretation as documented in recordings. The volume also illustrates the broad cultural and geographic reach of the instrument, offering readers a taste of the traditional music of Argentina, Mexico, Norway, and India, in which the violin's participation is an essential and characteristic element. Other chapters are devoted to American fiddling andto the violin and violinists as metaphors in literature and the visual arts.
CONTRIBUTORS: Chris Goertzen, Eitan Ornoy, Robert Riggs, Peter Walls, Peter Wollny.
Musicologist and violinist Robert Riggs (PhD,Harvard University) chairs the Department of Music at the University of Mississippi and is the author of articles on Mozart as well as the monograph Leon Kirchner: Composer, Performer, and Teacher (URP 2010).
With a colorful history that spans 450 years, the violin has proven to be one of the world's most important and versatile instruments. Addressed to performing musicians, serious concertgoers, and collectors of recordings, The Violin offers insightful, up-to-date essays on a wide range of topics. Essays discuss beloved masterpieces from the violin's solo repertoire, with individual chapters on the Italian Baroque, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, and the violin concerto in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as the evolution of performance styles and interpretation as documented in recordings. The volume also illustrates the broad cultural and geographic reach of the instrument, offering readers a taste of the traditional music of Argentina, Mexico, Norway, and India, in which the violin's participation is an essential and characteristic element. Other chapters are devoted to American fiddling andto the violin and violinists as metaphors in literature and the visual arts.
CONTRIBUTORS: Chris Goertzen, Eitan Ornoy, Robert Riggs, Peter Walls, Peter Wollny.
Musicologist and violinist Robert Riggs (PhD,Harvard University) chairs the Department of Music at the University of Mississippi and is the author of articles on Mozart as well as the monograph Leon Kirchner: Composer, Performer, and Teacher (URP 2010).
Reviews / Votes
Succeeds in emphasizing the versatility and global reach of the instrument to readers in the early stages of exploring these topics. Though Riggs devotes space to non-Western genres, the majority of the book systematically presents 'standard' violin repertoire...[Includes] a useful guide for violinists interested in reading fiction related to their instrument. * MUSIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION NOTES * Fascinating... Riggs presents a wealth of information...written in a reader friendly style. * EARLY MUSIC * If you wish to know more about its 'virtuous and rascally associations,' (indeed the violin was long associated with the devil), this enjoyable treatise will enlighten, entertain and educate. * AUSTA STRINGENDO * Casts a wide net. There are chapters on violins and violinists in literature, the violin's association with death and the devil, recordings as documentation of performance practice, and the violin's adoption by different cultures. * AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Rochester
United States
Publishing group
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
20 b/w, 25 line illus.
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
655 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-58046-506-9 (9781580465069)
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Persons
Robert Riggs
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Content
Associations with Death and the Devil - Robert Riggs
Violinists and Violins in Literature - Robert Riggs
The Violin in Italy during the Baroque Period - Peter Walls
Bach and the Violin - Peter Wollny
Mozart, Beethoven, and the Violin - Robert Riggs
The Violin Concerto and Virtuosity in the Nineteenth Century - Robert Riggs
The Violin Concerto in the Twentieth Century - Robert Riggs
The Masters' Voice: Recordings as Documentation of Performance Practice - Eitan Ornoy
The Peripatetic Violin - Chris Goertzen
The Devil's Box No More: Fiddling in America - Chris Goertzen
Notes on Contributors
Index
Violinists and Violins in Literature - Robert Riggs
The Violin in Italy during the Baroque Period - Peter Walls
Bach and the Violin - Peter Wollny
Mozart, Beethoven, and the Violin - Robert Riggs
The Violin Concerto and Virtuosity in the Nineteenth Century - Robert Riggs
The Violin Concerto in the Twentieth Century - Robert Riggs
The Masters' Voice: Recordings as Documentation of Performance Practice - Eitan Ornoy
The Peripatetic Violin - Chris Goertzen
The Devil's Box No More: Fiddling in America - Chris Goertzen
Notes on Contributors
Index