Classical and romantic music
By: edited by David Milsom
Series: The library of essays on music performance practice; Library of essays on music performance practice
Publisher: Ashgate Pub Ltd; Ashgate Pub. Co.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 495
ISBN-13: 9780754628590
Subjects: History and criticism; Music; Performance practice (Music); History
Notes: Essays originally published 1973-2010.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. I. Style and purpose: appraising eighteenth and nineteenth century aesthetics. 1. Performing classical repertoire: the unbridgeable gulf between contemporary practice and historical reality / Clive Brown; title: 2. Mozart as early music: a romantic antidote / Laurence Dreyfus; title: 3. Listening and responding to the evidence of ealy twentieth-century performance / Daniel Leech-Wilkinson; title: Pt. II. Studies in historical sources. 4. Mathis Lussy's Traite de l'expressione musicale as a window into performance practice / Michael D. Green; title: 5. Quantz's unegal: implications for the performance of 18th-century music / Claire A. Fontijn; title: 6. The recordings of Joachim, Ysaÿe and Sarasate in light of their reception by nineteenth-century British critics / Dorottya Fabian; title: Pt. III. Instruments, ensembles and conducting. 7. Towards a Verdian ideal of singing: emancipation from modern orthodoxy / Roger Freitas; title: 8. Brahms's pianos and the performance of his late piano works / Camilla Cai; title: 9. The orchestra in Beethoven's Vienna / Clive Brown; title: 10. Mozart's Viennese orchestras / Dexter Edge; title: 11. Rejected traditions: ensemble placement in nineteenth-century Paris / Donna M. Di Grazia; title: 12. Style and sonority in Wagner string performance / David Milsom; title: 13. The origins of the ideology of authenticity in interpretation: Mendelssohn, Berlioz and Wagner and conductors / Jośe Antonio Bowen; title: Pt. IV. Tempo and rhythm. 14. Historical performance, metronome marks and tempo in Beethoven's symphonies / Clive Brown; title: 15. The case of compensating rubato / Sarah Martin; title: 16. Tempo as an expressive element in the late Romantic lied / Edward F. Kravitt; title: 17. New light on late eighteenth-century tempo: William Crotch's pendulum markings / Emanuel Rubin; title: Pt. V. Aspects of notation. 18. Dots and strokes in late 18th- and 19th-century music / Clive Brown; title: 19. The expressive pause: punctuation, rests and breathing in England 1770-1850 / Robert Toft; title: 20. Beggar at the door: the rise and fall of portamento in singing / John Potter; title: 21. Bowing styles, vibrato and portamento in nineteenth-century violin playing / Clive Brown; title: 22. Portamento and the phonograph effect / Mark Katz.