Bach Performance Practice, 1945–1975

Download or Read eBook Bach Performance Practice, 1945–1975 PDF written by Dorottya Fabian and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Bach Performance Practice, 1945–1975
Author :
Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 329
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781351574877
ISBN-13 : 1351574876
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Bach Performance Practice, 1945–1975 by : Dorottya Fabian

Book excerpt: Analysing over 100 recordings from 1945-1975, this book examines twentieth-century baroque performance practice as evinced in all the commercially available recordings of J.S. Bach's Passions, Brandenburg Concertos and Goldberg Variations. Dorottya Fabian presents a qualitative, style-orientated history of the early music movement in its formative years through a comparison of the performance style heard in these recordings with the scholarly literature on Bach performance practice. Issues explored in the book include the availability of resources, balance, tempo, dynamics, ornamentation, rhythm and articulation. During the decades following the Second World War, the early music movement was more concerned with the revival of repertoire than with the revival of performance style which meant that its characteristics and achievements differed essentially from those of the later 1970s and 1980s. Period practice techniques were not practised even by ensembles using eighteenth-century instruments. Yet, as this survey reveals, several recordings of the period provide unexpectedly stylish interpretations using metre and pulse to punctuate the music. Such metric performance and appropriate articulation helped to clarify structure and texture and assisted in the creation of a musical discourse - the pre-eminent goal of baroque compositions.


Bach Performance Practice, 1945–1975 Related Books

Bach Performance Practice, 1945–1975
Language: en
Pages: 329
Authors: Dorottya Fabian
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-07-05 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Analysing over 100 recordings from 1945-1975, this book examines twentieth-century baroque performance practice as evinced in all the commercially available rec
The Keyboard Sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti and Eighteenth-Century Musical Style
Language: en
Pages: 414
Authors: W. Dean Sutcliffe
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-08-28 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

W. Dean Sutcliffe investigates one of the greatest yet least understood repertories of Western keyboard music: the 555 keyboard sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti. S
The Harpsichord and Clavichord
Language: en
Pages: 1323
Authors: Igor Kipnis
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-04-15 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Harpsichord and Clavichord, An Encyclopedia includes articles on this family of instruments, including famous players, composers, instruments builders, the
Early Keyboard Instruments
Language: en
Pages: 340
Authors: Edwin M. Ripin
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 1989 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The New Grove Musical Instruments Series, a companion to the much-acclaimed New Grove Composer Biography Series, presents in book form many of the lengthy and i
Piano Pedagogy
Language: en
Pages: 282
Authors: Gilles Comeau
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-01-11 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Piano Pedagogy: A Research and Information Guide provides a detailed outline of resources available for research and/or training in piano pedagogy. Like its com