The Art of Musical Phrasing in the Eighteenth Century : Punctuating the Classical "Period" /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vial, Stephanie
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Rochester : University of Rochester Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
1700-1800.
Frasering.
Artikulation > Musik
Musikalische Aufführungspraxis
Punkt > Musik
Phrasierung
Performance practice (Music)
Musical notation.
Music > Interpretation (Phrasing, dynamics, etc.)
MUSIC > Instruction & Study > Techniques.
Musique > Notation.
Pratique de l'execution (Musique) > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Performance practice (Music) > History > 18th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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