Interpreting historical keyboard music : sources, contexts and performance
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Interpreting historical keyboard music : sources, contexts and performance
Ashgate, c2013
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Ashgate historical keyboard series
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"Ashgate historical keyboard series"--on C.I.P. and cover jacket
Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-294) and index
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Description
Research in the field of keyboard studies, especially when intimately connected with issues of performance, is often concerned with the immediate working environments and practices of musicians of the past. An important pedagogical tool, the keyboard has served as the 'workbench' of countless musicians over the centuries. In the process it has shaped the ways in which many historical musicians achieved their aspirations and went about meeting creative challenges. In recent decades interest has turned towards a contextualized understanding of creative processes in music, and keyboard studies appears well placed to contribute to the exploration of this wider concern. The nineteen essays collected here encompass the range of research in the field, bringing together contributions from performers, organologists and music historians. Questions relevant to issues of creative practice in various historical contexts, and of interpretative issues faced today, form a guiding thread. Its scope is wide-ranging, with contributions covering the mid-sixteenth to early twentieth century. It is also inclusive, encompassing the diverse range of approaches to the field of contemporary keyboard studies. Collectively the essays form a survey of the ways in which the study of keyboard performance can enrich our understanding of musical life in a given period.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- I: Renaissance Keyboard Music
- 1: Some Aspects of P-Cug, MM 242
- 2: Making Connections
- 3: William Byrd's My Ladye Nevells booke (1591)
- II: Seventeenth-Century Keyboard Music
- 4: Giovanni Maria Trabaci and the New Manner of Inganni
- 5: Places of Memory and Invention
- 6: The Libro di Fra Gioseffo da Ravenna
- 7: A Discourse of Styles
- III: Performance Practice
- 8: Questions of Keyboard Temperament in the Sixteenth Century 1
- 9: Seventeenth-Century Harpsichords
- 10: 'In playing those bells, his amazing dexterity raised my wonder much higher'
- 11: Dynamics and Orchestral Effects in Late Eighteenth-Century Portuguese Organ Music
- 12: Czerny and the Organ: Pragmatism, Prestige and Performance Practice 1
- IV: Perspectives on Eighteenth-Century Repertoire
- 13: Some Reflections on Francois Couperin's 'New and diversified character'
- 14: Music for Connoisseurs and Amateurs: C.P.E. Bach and the Keyboard 1
- 15: Joao Cordeiro da Silva (1735-1808?): A Portuguese Galant Keyboard Composer
- V: The Nineteenth-Century Piano and Repertoire
- 16: Grand and Grander
- 17: Left-Hand Techniques in Carl Czerny's Pedagogical Piano Works and Nineteenth-Century Pianism
- 18: In the Footsteps of Jean Paul
- 19: A Forgotten Repertoire
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