The pathetick musician
Subtitle: moving an audience in the age of eloquence
By: Bruce Haynes and Geoffrey Burgess
Contributors: Burgess, Geoffrey (Oboist), author
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9780199373734
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Interpretation (Phrasing, dynamics, etc.); Performance practice (Music); Music; Philosophy and aesthetics; History
Other titles: Pathetic musician :
Description: What is rhetorical music? In 'The Pathetick Musician', Bruce Haynes and Geoffrey Burgess illustrate the vital place of rhetoric and eloquent expression in the creation and performance of Baroque music.
Notes: "About the companion website": page xxix.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-310) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword. Aus der Tiefen / Geoffrey Burgess; title: Preface. Pipe dreams / Bruce Haynes; title: Bach and the rhetorical heritage. Introduction : The eloquent musician; title: In the realm of the passions; title: The principles of eloquence : the artist's toolbox; title: Bach's expressive universe; title: Bach's inner world; title: Performing eloquence. Enhancing eloquence in performance (elocutio); title: Figures : spinning straw into gold; title: The expressive gesture; title: Kairos : expressive timing; title: To kindle the heart : engagement in performance; title: Analyzing expression in period recordings of Bach's cantatas; title: Appendix. Bruce Haynes : list of publications.