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Classical and Romantic Performing Practice 1750-1900
Clive Brown
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Description for Classical and Romantic Performing Practice 1750-1900
Paperback. This is an essential book for all performers and students of Classical and Romantic music. This book is the first to examine the changing relationship, during the period 1750 - 1900, between what composers committed to paper and what performers were expected to play. Num Pages: 676 pages, music examples throughout. BIC Classification: AVGC4; AVGC5; AVS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 39. Weight in Grams: 952.
The past ten years have seen a rapidly growing interest in performing and recording Classical and Romantic music with period instruments; yet the relationship of composers' notation to performing practices during that period has received only sporadic attention from scholars, and many aspects of composers' intentions have remained uncertain. Brown here identifies areas in which musical notation conveyed rather different messages to the musicians for whom it was written than it does to modern performers, and seeks to look beyond the notation to understand how composers might have expected to hear their music realized in performance. There is ample evidence to demonstrate that, in many respects, the sound worlds in which Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, and Brahms created their music were more radically different from ours than is generally assumed.
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
676
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Weight
951g
Number of Pages
676
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195166651
SKU
V9780195166651
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Ref
99-99
About Clive Brown
Clive Brown is Professor of Applied Musicology, University of Leeds; and Consultant, London Classical Players
Reviews for Classical and Romantic Performing Practice 1750-1900
"This book will revolutionize the study of music...The book weaves strong patterns from the conflicting habits of different places, people and periods. It doesn't tell you exactly what to do, but inspires a confidence that your own decisions, thus informed, will work."
BBC Music Magazine "Brown has produced a work of the greatest scholarship and utility....Recommended
required!
for all libraries with music collections serving upper-division undergraduates and above."
Choice "His substantial book presents many new findings and demonstrates new approaches. Brown has contributed greatly to our understanding of period technique, especially for string instruments"
Notes "His book offers a wealth of advice and ideas, ideas which should be thought of as creative and enabling, not restrictive."
Early Music Review "Brown's grasp of primary sources is wide-ranging and scholarly, lavishly illustrated with musical examples, often of unfamiliar repertory. He uncovers many questions and and possible answers, which can hardly fail to stimulate the thinking performer."
Gramophone Early Music "The fact that the book focuses on notation will make it permanently useful, something to consult."
The Musical Times
BBC Music Magazine "Brown has produced a work of the greatest scholarship and utility....Recommended
required!
for all libraries with music collections serving upper-division undergraduates and above."
Choice "His substantial book presents many new findings and demonstrates new approaches. Brown has contributed greatly to our understanding of period technique, especially for string instruments"
Notes "His book offers a wealth of advice and ideas, ideas which should be thought of as creative and enabling, not restrictive."
Early Music Review "Brown's grasp of primary sources is wide-ranging and scholarly, lavishly illustrated with musical examples, often of unfamiliar repertory. He uncovers many questions and and possible answers, which can hardly fail to stimulate the thinking performer."
Gramophone Early Music "The fact that the book focuses on notation will make it permanently useful, something to consult."
The Musical Times