Treatise On Vocal Performance And Ornamentation By Johann Adam Hiller

Author : Johann Adam Hiller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2001-04-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781139428989

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Treatise on Vocal Performance and Ornamentation by Johann Adam Hiller by Johann Adam Hiller Pdf

Hiller's Treatise on Vocal Performance and Ornamentation was published in Germany in 1780 and is an important manual on vocal technique and performance in the eighteenth century. Hiller was a masterful educator and was active not only as a teacher but as a critic, composer, conductor and music director. Thus, his observations served not only to raise the standards of singing in Germany, based on the Italian model, but to present complicated material, particularly ornamentation, in a manner that his peers, the middle class, could emulate. This present edition, translated with an introduction and extensive commentary by musicologist Suzanne J. Beicken, makes Hiller's treatise available for the first time in English. With its emphasis on practical aspects of ornamentation, declamation and style it will be valuable to instrumentalists as well as singers and is a significant contribution to the understanding of performance practice in the eighteenth-century.

Author : Johann Adam Hiller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Embellishment (Music)
ISBN : 0511328125

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Treatise on Vocal Performance and Ornamentation by Johann Adam Hiller Pdf

This present edition of Johann Adam Hiller's Treatise on Vocal Performance and Ornamentation, originally published in Germany in 1780, is translated with an introduction and extensive commentary by musicologist Suzanne J. Beicken and makes this important manual on vocal technique and performance available for the first time in English.

Author : Gina Spagnoli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Embellishment (Vocal music)
ISBN : MSU:31293100632177

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Vocal Ornamentation in Two Treatises by Johann Adam Hiller by Gina Spagnoli Pdf

Author : Brianna E. Robertson-Kirkland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000536843

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Venanzio Rauzzini and the Birth of a New Style in English Singing by Brianna E. Robertson-Kirkland Pdf

Since the eighteenth century, the one-to-one singing lesson has been the most common method of delivery. The scenario allows the teacher to familiarise and individualise the lesson to suit the needs of their student; however, it can also lead to speculation about what is taught. More troubling is the heightened risk of gossip and rumour with the private space generating speculation about the student–teacher relationship. Venanzio Rauzzini (1746–1810), an Italian castrato living in England who became a highly sought-after singing master, was particularly susceptible since his students tended to be women, whose moral character was under more scrutiny than their male counterparts. Even so in 1792, The Bath Chronicle proclaimed the Italian castrato: 'the father of a new style in English singing'. Branding Rauzzini as a founder of an English style was not an error, but indicative of deep-seated anxieties about the Italian invasion on England’s musical culture. This book places teaching at the centre of the socio-historical narrative and provides unique insight into musical culture. Using a microhistory approach, this study is the first to focus in on the impact of teaching and casts new light on issues of celebrity culture, gender and nationalism in Georgian England.

Author : Berlioz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2002-08-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781139433006

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Berlioz's Orchestration Treatise by Berlioz Pdf

This is a book both by and about Berlioz, providing not only a translation but also an extensive commentary on his text, dealing with the instruments of Berlioz's time and comparing his instruction with his practice.

Author : David Milsom
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351571746

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Classical and Romantic Music by David Milsom Pdf

This volume brings together twenty-two of the most diverse and stimulating journal articles on classical and romantic performing practice, representing a rich vein of enquiry into epochs of music still very much at the forefront of current concert repertoire. In so doing, it provides a wide range of subject-based scholarship. It also reveals a fascinating window upon the historical performance debate of the last few decades in music where such matters still stimulate controversy.

Author : Margaret Medlyn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780429999222

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Embodying Voice by Margaret Medlyn Pdf

Embodying Voice: Singing Verdi, Singing Wagner articulates the process of developing an operatic voice, explaining how and why the training of such a voice is as complex and sophisticated as it is mysterious. This book illustrates how putting together a voice, embodying a sound, and creating a character are vital to an audience’s emotional involvement and enjoyment. Moreover, it addresses an imbalance of power between the opera director and the orchestra conductor – ultimately, it is the communicative power of the singer’s voice that brings life to an opera, a fact well known by Verdi and Wagner. Embodying Voice highlights the singer’s creative agency to be co-creator of the composer’s music. It explores the ways in which vocal performance is constructed and controlled, connecting layers of mind and bodily engagement that allow operatic singers to achieve expression beyond the text itself. Further reading, listening, and performance lists are provided at the end of each chapter, complemented by musical examples throughout.

Author : Martha Feldman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780226044545

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Opera and Sovereignty by Martha Feldman Pdf

Performed throughout Europe during the 1700s, Italian heroic opera, or opera seria, was the century’s most significant musical art form, profoundly engaging such figures as Handel, Haydn, and Mozart. Opera and Sovereignty is the first book to address this genre as cultural history, arguing that eighteenth-century opera seria must be understood in light of the period’s social and political upheavals. Taking an anthropological approach to European music that’s as bold as it is unusual, Martha Feldman traces Italian opera’s shift from a mythical assertion of sovereignty, with its festive forms and rituals, to a dramatic vehicle that increasingly questioned absolute ideals. She situates these transformations against the backdrop of eighteenth-century Italian culture to show how opera seria both reflected and affected the struggles of rulers to maintain sovereignty in the face of a growing public sphere. In so doing, Feldman explains why the form had such great international success and how audience experiences of the period differed from ours today. Ambitiously interdisciplinary, Opera and Sovereignty will appeal not only to scholars of music and anthropology, but also to those interested in theater, dance, and the history of the Enlightenment.

Author : Simon P. Keefe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003-05-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521001927

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The Cambridge Companion to Mozart by Simon P. Keefe Pdf

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Author : Richard Hudson
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Music
ISBN : 0754654079

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Jumping to Conclusions by Richard Hudson Pdf

Richard Hudson presents the first comprehensive history of this special melodic cadence and examines its usage from the beginnings of Western music to the present time. The work identifies the falling-third figures as a significant element of style in pol

Author : Daniel T. Rodgers,Bhavani Raman,Helmut Reimitz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691176178

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Cultures in Motion by Daniel T. Rodgers,Bhavani Raman,Helmut Reimitz Pdf

In the wide-ranging and innovative essays of Cultures in Motion, a dozen distinguished historians offer new conceptual vocabularies for understanding how cultures have trespassed across geography and social space. From the transformations of the meanings and practices of charity during late antiquity and the transit of medical knowledge between early modern China and Europe, to the fusion of Irish and African dance forms in early nineteenth-century New York, these essays follow a wide array of cultural practices through the lens of motion, translation, itinerancy, and exchange, extending the insights of transnational and translocal history. Cultures in Motion challenges the premise of fixed, stable cultural systems by showing that cultural practices have always been moving, crossing borders and locations with often surprising effect. The essays offer striking examples from early to modern times of intrusion, translation, resistance, and adaptation. These are histories where nothing--dance rhythms, alchemical formulas, musical practices, feminist aspirations, sewing machines, streamlined metals, or labor networks--remains stationary. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Celia Applegate, Peter Brown, Harold Cook, April Masten, Mae Ngai, Jocelyn Olcott, Mimi Sheller, Pamela Smith, and Nira Wickramasinghe.

Author : Martha Feldman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520279490

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The Castrato by Martha Feldman Pdf

The Castrato is a nuanced exploration of why innumerable boys were castrated for singing between the mid-sixteenth and late-nineteenth centuries. It shows that the entire foundation of Western classical singing, culminating in bel canto, was birthed from an unlikely and historically unique set of desires, public and private, aesthetic, economic, and political. In Italy, castration for singing was understood through the lens of Catholic blood sacrifice as expressed in idioms of offering and renunciation and, paradoxically, in satire, verbal abuse, and even the symbolism of the castratoÕs comic cousin Pulcinella. Sacrifice in turn was inseparable from the system of patriarchyÑinvolving teachers, patrons, colleagues, and relativesÑwhereby castrated males were produced not as nonmen, as often thought nowadays, but as idealized males. Yet what captivated audiences and composersÑfrom Cavalli and Pergolesi to Handel, Mozart, and RossiniÑwere the extraordinary capacities of castrato voices, a phenomenon ultimately unsettled by Enlightenment morality. Although the castrati failed to survive, their musicality and vocality have persisted long past their literal demise.

Author : Celia Applegate
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781487520489

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The Necessity of Music by Celia Applegate Pdf

Cover -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Places -- 1 How German Is It? -- 2 Music in Place -- 3 Musical Itinerancy in a World of Nations -- 4 Music at the Fairs -- Part II: People -- 5 Mendelssohn on the Road -- 6 A.B. Marx's Cosmopolitan Nationalism -- 7 Schumann's German Nation -- 8 The Musical Worlds of Brahms's Hamburg -- Part III: Public and Private -- 9 What Difference Does a Nation Make? -- 10 Men with Trombones -- 11 Women's Wagner -- 12 Hausmusik in the Third Reich -- 13 To Be or Not to Be Wagnerian in Leni Riefenstahl's Films -- 14 Saving Music -- Notes -- Index

Author : Simon P. Keefe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 719 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107116719

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Mozart in Vienna by Simon P. Keefe Pdf

Comprehensive and engaging exploration of Mozart's greatest works, focussing on his dual roles as performer and composer in Vienna.

Author : Wye Jamison Allanbrook
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520958876

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The Secular Commedia by Wye Jamison Allanbrook Pdf

Wye Jamison Allanbrook’s The Secular Commedia is a stimulating and original rethinking of the music of the late eighteenth century. Hearing the symphonies and concertos of Haydn and Mozart with an ear tuned to operatic style, as their earliest listeners did, Allanbrook shows that this familiar music is built on a set of mimetic associations drawn from conventional modes of depicting character and emotion in opera buffa. Allanbrook mines a rich trove of writings by eighteenth-century philosophers and music theorists to show that vocal music was considered aesthetically superior to instrumental music and that listeners easily perceived the theatrical tropes that underpinned the style. Tracing Enlightenment notions of character and expression back to Greek and Latin writings about comedy and drama, she strips away preoccupations with symphonic form and teleology to reveal anew the kaleidoscopic variety and gestural vitality of the musical surface. In prose as graceful and nimble as the music she discusses, Allanbrook elucidates the idiom of this period for contemporary readers. With notes, musical examples, and a foreword by editors Mary Ann Smart and Richard Taruskin.