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After the Golden Age Romantic Pianism and Modern Performance

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ISBN-10: 0195178262

ISBN-13: 9780195178265

Edition: 2007

Authors: Kenneth Hamilton

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Kenneth Hamilton's book engagingly and lucidly dissects the oft-invoked myth of a Great Tradition, or Golden Age of Pianism. It is written both for players and for members of their audiences by a pianist who believes that scholarship and readability can go hand-in-hand. Hamilton discusses in meticulous yet lively detail the performance-style of great pianists from Liszt to Paderewski, and delves into the far-from-inevitable development of the piano recital. He entertainingly recounts how classical concerts evolved from exuberant, sometimes riotous events into the formal, funereal trotting out of predictable pieces they can be today, how an often unhistorical "respect for the score" began to…    
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Book details

List price: $61.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/7/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 9.29" wide x 6.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Kenneth Hamilton is pianist-in-residence and senior lecturer in music at the University of Birmingham, UK. A virtuoso pianist with an international reputation, he is also an authority on Liszt and has a special interest in nineteenth-century performing techniques. He is the author of the Cambridge Music handbook Liszt: Sonata in B Minor.

Preface
List of Figures and Music Examples
Great Tradition-Grand Manner-Golden Age
Creating the Solo Recital
With Due Respect
A Suitable Prelude
A Singing Tone
The Letter of the Score
Lisztiana
Postlude: Post-Liszt
Bibliography
Index