Musical Interpretation

Casals and the Art of Interpretation
Paperback
ISBN: 0520040325
"This is an immensely valuable book and one which is clearly designed to appeal to all musicians--not just string players...Mr. Blum has captured in great detail the little things that so often make a great teacher. I would strongly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in the Art of Interpretation."--Music Teacher
"The volume belongs to an exceptional class of literature: it is to be welcomed as a significant contribution. In his Forward, Antony Hopkins in a most eloquent way makes us fully aware of our possible great loss had the subject material forming this book not been preserved for posterity...throughout the book one remains not only an absorbed reader, but very much an active participant."--Violoncello Society Newsletter
"Now we have an authoritative guide to this great artist's approach to interpretation...a book which should be compulsory reading for every player, conductor and teacher."--Music Journal of the Incorporated Society of Musicians
"Blum has elegantly combined precise music terminology with meticulous music examples to present lucid and revealing details of interpretation that can be quickly and easily grasped. Only superlatives apply to this book, and all serious musicians would find immense pleasure and musical profit from reading this work. Highly recommended at all levels."--Choice
Classical and Romantic Performing Practice 1750-1900
Hardcover
ISBN: 0198161654
Classical and Romantic Performing Practice 1750-1900
Paperback
ISBN: 0195166655
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.
Improvising Jazz
Paperback
ISBN: 0671628291
A musician's guide to developing an individual jazz style through variations in melody, harmony, and rhythm
Onstage With Grieg
Interpreting His Piano Music
Hardcover
ISBN: 0253332486
The Orchestra
Hardcover
ISBN: 1909653624
This bite-size, informative overview of the orchestra is the ideal introduction to the subject
This fun and enlightening look at the orchestra explores the make-up and functions of the different sections, from string to percussion, and highlights some of the greatest orchestras that have ever performed.
Turning Notes into Music
An Introduction to Musical Interpretation
Paperback
ISBN: 0810831651
Vocal Authority
Singing Style and Ideology
Hardcover
ISBN: 0521563569
A fascinating history of singing styles from the ancient world to the present.
Vocal Authority
Singing Style And Ideology
1st Edition Paperback
ISBN: 0521027438
A fascinating history of singing styles from the ancient world to the present.