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Early Thoughts on Performance Practice

Early Thoughts on Performance Practice

Dabelstein, Craig
Whitwell, David

Paperback

Series: Ancient Voices: Views on Music by Ancient and Medieval Writers

Music Reference

ISBN10: 1936512769
ISBN13: 9781936512768
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jan 16 2014
Pages: 204
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.43 Width: 7.99 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
This volume presents the early views of philosophers and musicians having to do with the general background of what is known as Performance Practice. Performance Practice refers to the knowledge needed by musicians in bringing to life, in the form of present tense performance, older compositions, in view of the fact that we have a very incomplete system for the notation of music.But there are other problems besides our inadequate notational system. These include broad issues of society, the nature of the musical instruments themselves, acoustics, how the listener's brain hears music and performance traditions of earlier centuries.Modern musicians usually mean by performance practice the knowledge of small detail, such as trills, turns and improvisation. It is the hope of the present author that this volume will supply some of the background needed to help understand the solution of the smaller details.

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