Performing History
Approaches to History Across Musicology
1st Edition
Published on 25. August 2020
358 pages
978-1-64469-446-6 (ISBN)
Description
The fifteen essays of this volume glimpse the diverse ways music historians "do" history, and the diverse ways in which music histories matter. The book takes in historical musicology as well as ethnomusicology and popular music, showcasing the diverse lines of evidence and approaches suitable for music history studies.
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November Nancy:
Nancy November is currently an Associate Professor in musicology at the University of Auckland. Combining interdisciplinarity and cultural history, her research continues to center on chamber music of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, probing questions of historiography, canonization, and genre. Recent publications include Beethoven's Theatrical Quartets: Opp. 59, 74, and 95 (Cambridge University Press, 2013); a three-volume set of fifteen string quartets by Emmanuel Aloys Förster (A-R Editions, 2016); and Cultivating String Quartets in Beethoven's Vienna (Boydell Press, 2017). She is the recipient of a Humboldt Fellowship, and two Marsden Grants from the New Zealand Royal Society.Nancy November is currently an Associate Professor in musicology at the University of Auckland. Combining interdisciplinarity and cultural history, her research continues to center on chamber music of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, probing questions of historiography, canonization, and genre. Recent publications include Beethoven's Theatrical Quartets: Opp. 59, 74, and 95 (Cambridge University Press, 2013); a three-volume set of fifteen string quartets by Emmanuel Aloys Förster (A-R Editions, 2016); and Cultivating String Quartets in Beethoven's Vienna (Boydell Press, 2017). She is the recipient of a Humboldt Fellowship, and two Marsden Grants from the New Zealand Royal Society.
Nancy November is currently an Associate Professor in musicology at the University of Auckland. Combining interdisciplinarity and cultural history, her research continues to center on chamber music of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, probing questions of historiography, canonization, and genre. Recent publications include Beethoven's Theatrical Quartets: Opp. 59, 74, and 95 (Cambridge University Press, 2013); a three-volume set of fifteen string quartets by Emmanuel Aloys Förster (A-R Editions, 2016); and Cultivating String Quartets in Beethoven's Vienna (Boydell Press, 2017). She is the recipient of a Humboldt Fellowship, and two Marsden Grants from the New Zealand Royal Society.Nancy November is currently an Associate Professor in musicology at the University of Auckland. Combining interdisciplinarity and cultural history, her research continues to center on chamber music of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, probing questions of historiography, canonization, and genre. Recent publications include Beethoven's Theatrical Quartets: Opp. 59, 74, and 95 (Cambridge University Press, 2013); a three-volume set of fifteen string quartets by Emmanuel Aloys Förster (A-R Editions, 2016); and Cultivating String Quartets in Beethoven's Vienna (Boydell Press, 2017). She is the recipient of a Humboldt Fellowship, and two Marsden Grants from the New Zealand Royal Society.
Content
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Nancy NovemberHIP Experiences1. Some Senses of History among HIP Performers
Mary Hunter2. Counting to Four: The flûte du quatre in Charles Dieupart's Six Suittes (1701)
Imogen Morris3. The French style of Viol Bowing and the enflé in the Works of Marin Marais
Polly Sussex4. Contextual History through Rhetorical Visuality in Performing Monteverdi's Il pianto della Madonna
Daniela KalevaPerformance as Celebration and Conservation5. Celebrating and Enhancing a Virtual Past through Singing: The Polynesian Community on Taku
Richard Moyle6. Reimagining Traditional Ritual Music of Sabah for Contemporary Performance as a Means of Conservation
Mia PalenciaPerforming War7. Historical Fidelity and Creative License in two Viennese Battles of the Nile
Allan Badley8. Gallipoli to the Somme: A Musical Witness to History
Anthony Ritchie9. Britten's Primal Scream
Sterling LambertStaging Power and Enlightenment10. Staging Power: The Role of Duchess Sophie Elisabeth of Braunschweig-Lüneburg (1613-76) in Wolfenbüttel Court Festivities of the 1650s
Hannah Spracklan-Holl11. An Enlightened Future History on the Milan Opera Stage: Niccolò Piccinni's Il regno della Luna
Lawrence MaysPerforming the Body and the Senses12. "A New World is Opened up to View": Orchestral Gesture in Berlioz's Roméo et Juliette
Inge van Rij13. Italian Futurism: Music and the Senses in the Modern Age
Jennifer Rumbell Performing the Popular14. "Saxophones Sobbed Out Jazz": New Zealand's First Jazz Recording
Aleisha Ward15. "To Display Her Chief Accomplishment": Domestic Manuscript Music Collections in Colonial Australia
Rosemary RichardsAuthor Biographies
Nancy NovemberHIP Experiences1. Some Senses of History among HIP Performers
Mary Hunter2. Counting to Four: The flûte du quatre in Charles Dieupart's Six Suittes (1701)
Imogen Morris3. The French style of Viol Bowing and the enflé in the Works of Marin Marais
Polly Sussex4. Contextual History through Rhetorical Visuality in Performing Monteverdi's Il pianto della Madonna
Daniela KalevaPerformance as Celebration and Conservation5. Celebrating and Enhancing a Virtual Past through Singing: The Polynesian Community on Taku
Richard Moyle6. Reimagining Traditional Ritual Music of Sabah for Contemporary Performance as a Means of Conservation
Mia PalenciaPerforming War7. Historical Fidelity and Creative License in two Viennese Battles of the Nile
Allan Badley8. Gallipoli to the Somme: A Musical Witness to History
Anthony Ritchie9. Britten's Primal Scream
Sterling LambertStaging Power and Enlightenment10. Staging Power: The Role of Duchess Sophie Elisabeth of Braunschweig-Lüneburg (1613-76) in Wolfenbüttel Court Festivities of the 1650s
Hannah Spracklan-Holl11. An Enlightened Future History on the Milan Opera Stage: Niccolò Piccinni's Il regno della Luna
Lawrence MaysPerforming the Body and the Senses12. "A New World is Opened up to View": Orchestral Gesture in Berlioz's Roméo et Juliette
Inge van Rij13. Italian Futurism: Music and the Senses in the Modern Age
Jennifer Rumbell Performing the Popular14. "Saxophones Sobbed Out Jazz": New Zealand's First Jazz Recording
Aleisha Ward15. "To Display Her Chief Accomplishment": Domestic Manuscript Music Collections in Colonial Australia
Rosemary RichardsAuthor Biographies
