Author: Louis SpohrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Violin
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Louis Spohr's Grand Violin School
Author: Louis SpohrChoral Conducting and the Construction of Meaning
Author: Liz GarnettPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351571923
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
It is a truism in teaching choral conducting that the director should look like s/he wishes the choir to sound. The conductor's physical demeanour has a direct effect on how the choir sings, at a level that is largely unconscious and involuntary. It is also a matter of simple observation that different choral traditions exhibit not only different styles of vocal production and delivery, but also different gestural vocabularies which are shared not only between conductors within that tradition, but also with the singers. It is as possible to distinguish a gospel choir from a barbershop chorus or a cathedral choir by visual cues alone as it is simply by listening. But how can these forms of physical communication be explained? Do they belong to a pre-cultural realm of primate social bonding, or do they rely on the context and conventions of a particular choral culture? Is body language an inherent part of musical performance styles, or does it come afterwards, in response to music? At a practical level, to what extent can a practitioner from one tradition mandate an approach as 'good practice', and to what extent can another refuse it on the grounds that 'we don't do it that way'? This book explores these questions at both theoretical and practical levels. It examines textual and ethnographic sources, and draws on theories from critical musicology and nonverbal communication studies to analyse them. By comparing a variety of choral traditions, it investigates the extent to which the connections between conductor demeanour and choral sound operate at a general level, and in what ways they are constructed within a specific idiom. Its findings will be of interest both to those engaged in the study of music as a cultural practice, and to practitioners involved in a choral conducting context that increasingly demands fluency in a variety of styles.
Verdi in Performance
Author: Alison LathamPublisher:
ISBN: 9780198167358
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
This collection of essays addresses the issue of how to make Verdi's operas relevant to modern audiences while respecting the composer's intentions. Here, both scholars and music and stage practitioners reflect current thinking on matters such as "authentic" staging, performance practice, and the role of critical editions.
The Oxford Handbook of Time in Music
Author: Mark DoffmanPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190947292
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 617
Book Description
Music represents one of humanity's most vivid contemplations on the nature of time itself. The ways that music can modify, intensify, and even dismantle our understanding of time's passing is at the foundation of musical experience, and is common to listeners, composers, and performers alike. The Oxford Handbook of Time in Music provides a range of compelling new scholarship that examines the making of musical time, its effects and structures. Bringing together philosophical, psychological, and socio-cultural understandings of time in music, the chapters highlight the act of 'making' not just as cultural construction but also in terms of the perceptual, cognitive underpinnings that allow us to 'make' sense of time in music. Thus, the Handbook is a unique synthesis of divergent perspectives on the nature of time in music. With its focus on contemporary music (while paying attention to some of the generative temporalities of the nineteenth century), the volume establishes the richness and complexity of so much current music-making and in the process overcomes historic demarcations between art and popular musics.
The Violin and Viola
Author: Sheila M. NelsonPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486428532
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Originally published: London: E. Benn, 1972, in series: Instruments of the orchestra. With new preface by the author.
The Doflein Method
Author: Elma DofleinPublisher: Schott Music
ISBN: 379578767X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
The Doflein Method: The Violinist's Progress. Volume II: Development of technique within the first position A course of violin instruction combined with musical theory and practice in duet-playing.
Louis Spohr's autobiography, tr. from the German. Copyright ed
Author: Louis SpohrMendelssohn in Performance
Author: Siegwart ReichwaldPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253002613
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Exploring many aspects of Felix Mendelssohn's multi-faceted career as musician and how it intersects with his work as composer, contributors discuss practical issues of music making such as performance space, instruments, tempo markings, dynamics, phrasings, articulations, fingerings, and instrument techniques. They present the conceptual and ideological underpinnings of Mendelssohn's approach to performance, interpretation, and composing through the contextualization of specific performance events and through the theoretic actualization of performances of specific works. Contributors rely on manuscripts, marked or edited scores, and performance parts to convey a deeper understanding of musical expression in 19th-century Germany. This study of Mendelssohn's work as conductor, pianist, organist, violist, accompanist, music director, and editor of old and new music offers valuable perspectives on 19th-century performance practice issues.
Romantic Violin Performing Practices
Author: David MilsomPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783275278
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
What are the key topics that define Romantic violin playing?
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