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Before the baton : musical direction and conducting in Stuart and Georgian Britain /
How was large-scale music directed or conducted in Britain before baton conducting took hold in the 1830s?
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK :
The Boydell Press,
2020.
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| Colección: | Music in Britain, 1600-1900.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontcover
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Note to the Reader
- List of Abbreviations
- Prelude. To Beat or Not to Beat: The Continental Context
- Part I. Directing Choral Music
- 1 'Heard but not Seen': Leading Anglican Cathedral Music from the Organ
- 2 'With a Scroll of Parchment or Paper, in Hand': Large- Scale Choral Music
- 3 'Accompanied all along on the Organ by his Own Inimitable Hand': Handel and the Direction of his Oratorios
- 4 'The Conductor at the Organ': The Oratorio Tradition after Handel
- Part II. Directing Opera and Theatre Music
- 5 'That Ridiculous Custom': From Devolved Direction to Centralized Time-Beating in Seventeenth-Century Theatre Music
- 6 'Il maestro al cembalo': Directing Opera and Theatre Music from the Harpsichord
- 7 'A New Discipline and a New Style of Playing': Directing Opera and Theatre Music from the Violin
- 8 'That Powerful Sovereign, the Conductor': From the Piano to the Rostrum
- Postlude. Superconductors or Semiconductors? Lessons for Today
- Bibliography
- Index