Performing Music History: Musicians Speak First-Hand about Music History and Performance

Author:   John C. Tibbetts ,  Michael Saffle ,  William A. Everett
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
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9783030064389


Pages:   362
Publication Date:   20 December 2018
Format:   Paperback
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Performing Music History offers a unique perspective on music history and performance through a series of conversations with women and men intimately associated with music performance, history, and practice: the musicians themselves. Fifty-five celebrated artists—singers, pianists, violinists, cellists, flutists, horn players, oboists, composers, conductors, and jazz greats—provide interviews that encompass most of Western music history, from the Middle Ages to contemporary classical music, avant-garde innovations, and Broadway musicals. The book covers music history through lenses that include “authentic” performance, original instrumentation, and social context. Moreover, the musicians interviewed all bring to bear upon their respective subjects three outstanding qualities: 1) their high esteem in the music world as immediately recognizable names among musicians and public alike; 2) their energy and devotion to scholarship and the recovery of endangered musical heritages; and 3) their considerable skills, media savvy, and showmanship as communicators. Introductory essays to each chapter provide brief synopses of historical eras and topics. Combining careful scholarship and lively conversation, Performing Music History explores historical contexts for a host of fascinating issues.

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Author:   John C. Tibbetts ,  Michael Saffle ,  William A. Everett
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.593kg
ISBN:  

9783030064389


ISBN 10:   3030064387
Pages:   362
Publication Date:   20 December 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 2. Medieval and Early Modern Music.- 3. Late Baroque Music.- 4. A Clutch of Instruments.- 5. Classical and Early Romantic Music.- 6. The Romantic Piano.- 7. From Romanticism Toward Modernism.- 8. The Art of The Accompanist.- 9. Musical Multiplicities in The Twentieth And Twenty-First Centuries.- 10. On Stage And Screen.- 11. Engaging Audiences.

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John C. Tibbetts is Associate Professor of Film and Media at the University of Kansas, USA. He is the author of The Gothic Imagination, Composers in the Movies, Schumann: A Chorus of Voices, Dvořák in America, and The Encyclopedia of Novels into Film. Michael Saffle is Professor of Music and Humanities at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA. His eight books include The Music of Franz Liszt: Stylistic Development and Cultural Synthesis (2018), and he also writes about music in film and on television. William A. Everett is Curators’ Distinguished Professor of Musicology at the University of Missouri–Kansas City. He is co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Musical and author of Music for the People: A History of the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra, 1933-1982.

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