History of Music in Performance The Art of Musical Interpretation from the Renaissance to Our Day

Name: History of Music in Performance The Art of Musical Interpretation from the Renaissance to Our Day
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ISBN: 9780393003697

ISBN-10: 0393003698

ISBN-13: 9780393003697

Edition: N/A

Authors: Frederick Dorian, Eugene Ormandy

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From the great scores that have made history, from the statements of the composers about their work, from old treatises, scholarly textbooks, and contemporary literature, the author has gathered an engrossing array of evidence on the trends of interpretation. Here the art of the performer is studied in all its aspects, spiritual, technical, historical: the old Italian methods of singing, the royal virginalists, Frescobaldi's organ playing, dance types from galliard to waltz, phrasing and dynamics, acoustical conditions, the story of the metronome, Beethoven's piano playing and Chopin's rubato, the rise of virtuosity with Paganini and Liszt, the dream orchestra of Berlioz, and the…

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List price: $25.95
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/17/1966
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 404
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English