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A Musicology of Performance

Author : Dorottya Fabian
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781783741526

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This book examines the nature of musical performance. In it, Dorottya Fabian explores the contributions and limitations of some of these approaches to performance, be they theoretical, cultural, historical, perceptual, or analytical. Through a detailed investigation of recent recordings of J. S. Bach’s Six Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, she demonstrates that music performance functions as a complex dynamical system. Only by crossing disciplinary boundaries, therefore, can we put the aural experience into words. A Musicology of Performance provides a model for such a method by adopting Deleuzian concepts and various empirical and interdisciplinary procedures. Fabian provides a case study in the repertoire, while presenting new insights into the state of baroque performance practice at the turn of the twenty-first century. Through its wealth of audio examples, tables, and graphs, the book offers both a sensory and a scholarly account of musical performance. These interactive elements map the connections between historically informed and mainstream performance styles, considering them in relation to broader cultural trends, violin schools, and individual artistic trajectories. A Musicology of Performance is a must read for academics and post-graduate students and an essential reference point for the study of music performance, the early music movement, and Bach’s opus.

Musicology and Performance

Author : Frieder Lang,Paul Henry Lang,Professor George J Buelow
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0300068050

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Musicology and Performance by Frieder Lang,Paul Henry Lang,Professor George J Buelow Pdf

Arriving in the United States at age twenty-seven, Hungarian-born Paul Henry Lang (1901-1991) went on to exert a powerful influence on musical life and scholarship in his adopted country for more than six decades. As professor of musicology at Columbia University, editor of the Musical Quarterly, a founder of the American Musicological Society, and chief music critic of the New York Herald Tribune, Lang became one of Americas foremost musical scholars and commentators. This anthology of his previously uncollected writings includes essays written throughout his career on a full array of musical subjects, as well as unpublished chapters of the book on performance practice that he was writing at the time of his death. Lang was concerned above all with safeguarding the purity of musical knowledge as reflected in both scholarship and performance. Whether addressing his fellow musicologists or the general public, he expressed a broadly humanistic conception of musicology in his erudite and entertaining writings on such diverse subjects as Bach and Handel, the historical veracity of the film Amadeus, Marxist theory and music, and the controversial issue of authenticity in performance.

Music and Familiarity

Author : Dr Helen M Prior,Dr Elaine King
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781472400277

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Familiarity underpins our engagement with music. In Music and Familiarity, King and Prior bring together 13 essays that highlight theoretical and empirical considerations about familiarity from three perspectives: listening, musicology, and performance. This book explores the ways in which familiarity impacts our behaviour and responses to music; influences our appreciation and perceptions of music; and also shows how familiarity affects musicians’ performance practices.

Beyond the Score

Author : Nicholas Cook
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199357406

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In Beyond the Score: Music as Performance, author Nicholas Cook supplants the traditional musicological notion of music as writing, asserting instead that it is as performance that music is loved, understood, and consumed. This book reconceives music as an activity through which meaning is generated in real time, as Cook rethinks familiar assumptions and develops new approaches. Focusing primarily but not exclusively on the Western 'art' tradition, Cook explores perspectives that range from close listening to computational analysis, from ethnography to the study of recordings, and from the social relations constructed through performance to the performing (and listening) body. In doing so, he reveals not only that the notion of music as text has hampered academic understanding of music, but also that it has inhibited performance practices, placing them in a textualist straightjacket. Beyond the Score has a strong historical emphasis, touching on broad developments in twentieth-century performance style and setting them into their larger cultural context. Cook also investigates the relationship between recordings and performance, arguing that we do not experience recordings as mere reproductions of a performance but as performances in their own right. Beyond the Score is a comprehensive exploration of new approaches and methods for the study of music as performance, and will be an invaluable addition to the libraries of music scholars-including musicologists, music theorists, and music cognition scholars-everywhere.

Experience and Meaning in Music Performance

Author : Martin Clayton,Byron Dueck,Laura Leante
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199811489

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Experience and Meaning in Music Performance by Martin Clayton,Byron Dueck,Laura Leante Pdf

How does the immediate experience of musical sound relate to processes of meaning construction and discursive mediation? This question lies at the heart of the studies presented in Experience and Meaning in Music Performance, a unique multi-authored work that both draws on and contributes to current debates in a wide range of disciplines, including ethnomusicology, musicology, psychology, and cognitive science. Addressing a wide range of musical practices from Indian raga and Afro-Brazilian Congado rituals to jazz, rock, and Canadian aboriginal fiddling, the coherence of this study is underpinned by its three main themes: experience, meaning, and performance. Central to all of the studies are moments of performance: those junctures when sound and meaning are actually produced. Experience-what people do, and what they feel, while engaging in music-is equally important. And considered alongside these is meaning: what people put into a performance, what they (and others) get out of it, and, more broadly, how discourses shape performances and experiences of music. In tracing trajectories from moments of musical execution, this volume a novel and productive view of how cultural practice relates to the experience and meaning of musical performance. A model of interdisciplinary study, and including access to an array of audio-visual materials available on an extensive companion website, Experience and Meaning in Music Performance is essential reading for scholars and students of ethnomusicology and music psychology.

Music, Performance, Meaning

Author : Nicholas Cook
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351557047

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This selection of sixteen of Nicholas Cook's essays covers the period from 1987 to 2004 and brings out the development of the author's ideas over these years. In particular the two keywords of the title -Meaning and Performance- represent critical directions that expand to the point that, by the end of the book, they become coextensive: music is seen as social action and meaning as created by that action. Within this overall direction, a wide variety of topics is explored, ranging from Beethoven to Schenker, from Chinese qin music to jazz and rock, from perceptual psychology to sketch studies and analysis of record sleeves. A substantial introduction draws out the links (and differences) between the essays, sometimes critiquing them and always setting them into the developing context of the author's work as a whole.

Aesthetics and Experience in Music Performance

Author : Denis Collins,Klisala Harrison,Samantha Owens
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781443802307

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Aesthetics and Experience in Music Performance by Denis Collins,Klisala Harrison,Samantha Owens Pdf

Drawing upon a wide range of scholarly enquiry into early music, queer musicology, ethnomusicology, performance practice, music education and technology, Aesthetics and Experience in Music Performance provides a lively forum for the articulation of varied perspectives on the role of music, its interpretation and function in contexts supported by those who practice or experience it. The formal and shorter discussion papers included in this scholarly collection were presented at the National Workshop of the Musicological Society of Australia, held at the University of Queensland, Brisbane in October 2003. The themes of aesthetics and experience are central to this publication and each paper engages in a scholarly dialogue on the technical, expressive and embodied aspects of performance. The papers included in this publication bring together the research of a wide community of scholars (e.g., musicologists, anthropologists, ethnomusicologists and linguists) working in the field of performance studies and collectively reflect the musicological issues being debated in Australia today.

Expressiveness in Music Performance

Author : Dorottya Fabian,Renee Timmers,Emery Schubert
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780199659647

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Expressiveness in Music Performance by Dorottya Fabian,Renee Timmers,Emery Schubert Pdf

This book brings together researchers from a range of disciplines that use diverse methodologies to provide new perspectives and formulate answers to questions about the meaning, means, and contextualisation of expressive performance in music.

Performing Music Research

Author : Aaron (Professor of Performance Science Williamon, Professor of Performance Science Royal College of Music),Professor of Performance Science Aaron Williamon,Associate Director of Research Jane Ginsborg,Jane (Associate Director of Research Ginsborg, Associate Director of Research Royal Northern College of Music),Reader in Performance Science Rosie Perkins,Rosie (Reader in Performance Science Perkins, Reader in Performance Science Royal College of Music),George (Research Associate in Performance Science Waddell, Research Associate in Performance Science Royal College of Music),Research Associate in Performance Science George Waddell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780198714545

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Performing Music Research by Aaron (Professor of Performance Science Williamon, Professor of Performance Science Royal College of Music),Professor of Performance Science Aaron Williamon,Associate Director of Research Jane Ginsborg,Jane (Associate Director of Research Ginsborg, Associate Director of Research Royal Northern College of Music),Reader in Performance Science Rosie Perkins,Rosie (Reader in Performance Science Perkins, Reader in Performance Science Royal College of Music),George (Research Associate in Performance Science Waddell, Research Associate in Performance Science Royal College of Music),Research Associate in Performance Science George Waddell Pdf

Performing Music Research is a comprehensive guide to planning, conducting, analyzing, and communicating research in music performance. The book examines the approaches and strategies that underpin research in music education, psychology, and performance science.

Sound - Perception - Performance

Author : Rolf Bader
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319001074

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Sound - Perception - Performance by Rolf Bader Pdf

Musical Performance covers many aspects like Musical Acoustics, Music Psychology, or motor and prosodic actions. It deals with basic concepts of the origin or music and its evolution, ranges over neurocognitive foundations, and covers computational, technological, or simulation solutions. This volume gives an overview about current research in the foundation of musical performance studies on all these levels. Recent concepts of synchronized systems, evolutionary concepts, basic understanding of performance as Gestalt patterns, theories of chill as performance goals or historical aspects are covered. The neurocognitive basis of motor action in terms of music, musical syntax, as well as therapeutic aspects are discussed. State-of-the-art applications in performance realizations, like virtual room acoustics, virtual musicians, new concepts of real-time physical modeling using complex performance data as input or sensor and gesture studies with soft- and hardware solutions are presented. So although the field is still much larger, this volume presents current trends in terms of understanding, implementing, and perceiving performance.

The Historical Performance of Music

Author : Colin Lawson,Robin Stowell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1999-11-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521627389

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A 1999 overview of historical performance, surveying issues and suggesting future developments.

Music Performance Issues

Author : Beverly Jerold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Music
ISBN : 1576472752

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Frontcover -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- 1 Dilettante and Amateur: Our Evolving Language -- 2 Bach's Lament about Leipzig's Professional Instrumentalists -- 3 Choral Singing Before the Era of Recordings -- 4 Why Most a cappella Music Could Not Have Been Sung Unaccompanied -- 5 Fasch and the Beginning of Modern Artistic Choral Singing -- 6 What Handel's Casting Reveals About Singers of the Time -- 7 Intonation Standards and Equal Temperament -- 8 Eighteenth-Century Stringed Keyboard Instruments from a Performance Perspective -- 9 The Tromba and Corno in Bach's Time -- 10 Maelzel's Role in Beethoven's Symphonic Metronome Marks -- 11 The French Time Devices Revisited -- 12 The Notable Significance of C and (in Bach's Era -- 13 Numbers and Tempo: 1630-1800 -- 14 Overdotting in Handel's Overtures Reconsidered -- 15 Notes inégales: A Definitive New Parameter -- 16 Distinguishing Between Artificial and Natural Vibrato in Premodern Music -- 17 A Solution for Simple (secco) Theater Recitative -- 18 How Composers Viewed Performers' Additions -- 19 The Varied Reprise in Eighteenth-Century Intrumental Music-A Reappraisal

Shakespeare, Music and Performance

Author : Bill Barclay,David Lindley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107139336

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Shakespeare, Music and Performance by Bill Barclay,David Lindley Pdf

This volume traces the uses of music in Shakespearean performance from the first Globe and Blackfriars to contemporary, global productions.

Music, Performance, Meaning

Author : Nicholas Cook
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351557054

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Music, Performance, Meaning by Nicholas Cook Pdf

This selection of sixteen of Nicholas Cook's essays covers the period from 1987 to 2004 and brings out the development of the author's ideas over these years. In particular the two keywords of the title -Meaning and Performance- represent critical directions that expand to the point that, by the end of the book, they become coextensive: music is seen as social action and meaning as created by that action. Within this overall direction, a wide variety of topics is explored, ranging from Beethoven to Schenker, from Chinese qin music to jazz and rock, from perceptual psychology to sketch studies and analysis of record sleeves. A substantial introduction draws out the links (and differences) between the essays, sometimes critiquing them and always setting them into the developing context of the author's work as a whole.

The Science and Psychology of Music Performance

Author : Richard Parncutt,Gary McPherson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002-04-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 0195350170

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The Science and Psychology of Music Performance by Richard Parncutt,Gary McPherson Pdf

What type of practice makes a musician perfect? What sort of child is most likely to succeed on a musical instrument? What practice strategies yield the fastest improvement in skills such as sight-reading, memorization, and intonation? Scientific and psychological research can offer answers to these and other questions that musicians face every day. In The Science and Psychology of Music Performance, Richard Parncutt and Gary McPherson assemble relevant current research findings and make them accessible to musicians and music educators. This book describes new approaches to teaching music, learning music, and making music at all educational and skill levels. Each chapter represents the collaboration between a music researcher (usually a music psychologist) and a performer or music educator. This combination of expertise results in excellent practical advice. Readers will learn, for example, that they are in the majority (57%) if they experience rapid heartbeat before performances; the chapter devoted to performance anxiety will help them decide whether beta-blocker medication, hypnotherapy, or the Alexander Technique of relaxation might alleviate their stage fright. Another chapter outlines a step-by-step method for introducing children to musical notation, firmly based on research in cognitive development. Altogether, the 21 chapters cover the personal, environmental, and acoustical influences that shape the learning and performance of music.