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Author: Stephen Davies Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199274118 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 383
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Stephen Davies addresses such questions as: What are musical works?; are they discovered or created?; of what elements are they comprised?; how are they specified?; what's a performance? ; and, is it possible to perform old music authentically?
Author: Stephen Davies Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199274118 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 383
Book Description
Stephen Davies addresses such questions as: What are musical works?; are they discovered or created?; of what elements are they comprised?; how are they specified?; what's a performance? ; and, is it possible to perform old music authentically?
Author: Stephen Davies Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 9780801481512 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 436
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We talk not only of enjoying music, but of understanding it. Music is often taken to have expressive import--and in that sense to have meaning. But what does music mean, and how does it mean? Stephen Davies addresses these questions in this sophisticated and knowledgeable overview of current theories in the philosophy of music. Reviewing and criticizing the aesthetic positions of recent years, he offers a spirited explanation of his own position. Davies considers and rejects in turn the positions that music describes (like language), or depicts (like pictures), or symbolizes (in a distinctive fashion) emotions. Similarly, he resists the idea that music's expressiveness is to be explained solely as the composer's self-expression, or in terms of its power to evoke a response from the audience. Music's ability to describe emotions, he believes, is located within the music itself; it presents the aural appearance of what he calls emotion characteristics. The expressive power of music awakens emotions in the listener, and music is valued for this power although the responses are sometimes ones of sadness. Davies shows that appreciation and understanding may require more than recognition of and reaction to music's expressive character, but need not depend on formal musicological training.
Author: Beverly Jerold Publisher: ISBN: 9781576472750 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 348
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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
Author: Gilvano Dalagna Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0429619464 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 219
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Desired Artistic Outcomes in Music Performance is about empowering musicians to achieve their professional and personal goals in music. The narrative argues that developing musicians should be supported in conceptualizing and achieving their desired artistic outcomes (DAO), as these have been recognized as key elements in a successful career transition in and beyond their studies in higher education. The text explores the nature of DAO and illustrates how higher education students can be enabled to explore and develop these. The book draws on the findings from a range of exploratory studies which: Bring to light connections between contemporary topics in music, such as artistic research and career development; Contribute to existing discussions on innovative pedagogical approaches in higher education in music; and Offer theoretical models to support the broad artistic and professional development in young musicians. This is a text grounded in theory and practice, and which draws on case study examples, as well as historical perspectives and coverage of contemporary issues regarding employment in the music industries. The book will be of particular interest to aspiring music professionals and all those working in the areas of Music Education, Performance Studies and Artistic Research.
Author: Michael Allen Publisher: ISBN: 9781579992774 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 708
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"The book contains thorough analyses of 100 of the most significant works for strings and full orchestra, Grades 1-6. Researched and compiled by scholarly musicians and teachers around the country, the book gives important information on each musical selection, including composer and composition information, historical background, technical requirements, stylistic considerations, musical elements, suggestions for additional listening, and a guide to selected references"--Publisher's website
Author: Naomi A. Weiss Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520401441 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 300
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The Music of Tragedy offers a new approach to the study of classical Greek theater by examining the use of musical language, imagery, and performance in the late work of Euripides. Naomi Weiss demonstrates that Euripides’ allusions to music-making are not just metatheatrical flourishes or gestures towards musical and religious practices external to the drama but closely interwoven with the dramatic plot. Situating Euripides’ experimentation with the dramaturgical effects of mousike within a broader cultural context, she shows how much of his novelty lies in his reinvention of traditional lyric styles and motifs for the tragic stage. If we wish to understand better the trajectories of this most important ancient art form, The Music of Tragedy argues, we must pay closer attention to the role played by both music and text.
Author: Howard Mayer Brown Publisher: W. W. Norton ISBN: 9780393028072 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 281
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This handbook, an entirely new work, is not simply another guide to the performance of music of the past; it is, rather, a book about the study of past performance. Each main section - Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Twentieth Century - contains an introduction dealing with contexts of performance as well as sources and theory. This is followed by detailed discussions of vocal and instrumental performance.
Author: Martin Clayton Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199811326 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 257
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This book explores how the immediate experience of musical sound relates to processes of meaning construction and discursive mediation. A unique multi-authored work that both draws on and contributes to current debates in ethnomusicology, musicology, psychology, and cognitive science, it presents a novel and productive view of how cultural practice relates to the experience and meaning of musical performance.
Author: Stephen Davies
Author: Stephen Davies
Author: Stephen Davies
Author: Beverly Jerold
Author: Larry Blocher
Author: Gilvano Dalagna
Author: John Rink
Author: Michael Allen
Author: Naomi A. Weiss
Author: Howard Mayer Brown
Author: Martin Clayton