The Art of Musical Phrasing in the Eighteenth Century : Punctuating the Classical "Period" /
Practical suggestions, and documentary evidence, for performers wishing to understand the gestures and nuances embedded in eighteenth-century musical notation. There are, of course, no commas, periods, or question marks in music of the Baroque and Classic eras. Nonetheless, the concept of "punc...
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Idioma: | Inglés |
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Rochester :
University of Rochester Press,
2008.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part 1. Establishing an historical perspective: Musical punctuation, the analogy ; A surprisingly complex and lively picture of pointing theory ; Musical "resting points of the spirit"
- Part 2. The art of interpreting rests: Written and unwritten rests ; Punctuation vs. articulation ; Affective punctuation
- Part 3. Case studies in musical punctuation: Musical prose F.W. Marpurg's essay on the punctuation of recitative ; Musical verse Johann Mattheson's "curious specimen" of a punctuated minuet
- Afterword
- Appendix A: Translation of Marpurg's Lessons on musical punctuation, from His Kritische Briefe über die Tonkunst, vol. 2
- Appendix B: Chronological chart of punctuation references.