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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"historically informed performance"”.
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Historically Informed Performance Practice of the Baroque Era
… to how closely we should strive to emulate the performance conditions that would have been present during the Baroque era. Robert Donington, an English musicologist and author of two definitive texts on Baroque performance practice, suggests in his Performer's Guide to Baroque Music that we can …
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Achieving a historically informed performance of Renaissance polyphony: A qualitative study of the use of modernized partbooks
… ability to teach the skills needed to achieve a historically informed performance of Renaissance polyphony? Additionally, this project queries participants’ rehearsal techniques, interpreting which are most valuable for successfully integrating partbook singing into a choir. The responses …
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Performance practice in Hungarian folk music and its relationship to the Style Hongrois
This study investigates style and performance practice within the oral traditions of Hungarian folk music, and explores intersections with the nineteenth-century idiom style hongrois. Interviews, lessons, and workshops were undertaken as part of a practice-based immersive research experience, and …
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Historical and pedagogical analysis of Fiori Musicali by Renaissance organ virtuoso Girolamo Frescobaldi
… context for the work, investigating common performance practices of the era, and examining the composition’s influence on future generations of organists. This research-based initiative provides historical context for the changing landscape of Italian governance, the training and employment …
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EARLY INSTRUMENTS IN 21ST CENTURY COMPOSITION AND AN ORIGINAL COMPOSITION FOR SAXOPHONES AND VIOLS
… in contemporary composition for centuries. The historically-informed-performance movement has now evolved to a point where early instruments and period performance techniques can add extraordinary new characters to twenty-first century compositions. This thesis explores how composers effectively …
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Preserving Tchaikovsky’s legacy: a translation and critical commentary on Kirill Kondrashin’s interpretation of Tchaikovsky’s symphonies
… and the institutional transmission of performance knowledge. Although long valued by musicians in post-Soviet countries, Kondrashin’s book has remained largely inaccessible to international readers due to linguistic and contextual barriers.The translation included in this dissertation …
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A performance guide of J.S. Bach's viola da Gama sonatas transcribed for viola
… viola da gamba sonatas. My aim is to create a performance guide to J.S. Bach’s Three Sonatas for viola da gamba and Harpsichord (BWV 1027‐1029), transcribed for viola. I shall be comparing three editions of viola transcriptions to Bärenreiter’s Neue Bach Ausgabe, edited by Hans Eppstein. This …
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Vox profundis : the development of the tuba as a solo instrument since 1954
… new techniques might be explored to take tuba performance to even higher levels? These, and other questions, will be addressed through the presentation of four recordings with associated commentary. The first project returns to 1954 in a historically informed performance of Vaughan Williams' …
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Indications Concerning Contemporaneous Performance Practice in the Prose Writings of William Billings
… the teaching of musical fundamentals and vocal performance in the singing schools. Five additional tunebooks followed; three of these six contained lengthy prose introductions in which Billings addressed pedagogy, music theory, and sight singing. This prose provides important information about …
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The learning and performance practices of the chalumeau: A practice-led autoethnography
… research centred on chalumeau learning and performance practices, particularly in South Africa (SA), is scarce. Compared to other Baroque woodwind instruments, clear guidance on chalumeau playing techniques remains very limited. The aim of this study is to explore, from a performer’s …
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Te, Joseph, celebrent: An examination and guide to Manuel de Sumaya’s works for the feast of St. Joseph at the Cathedral of Mexico City, 1714-1715
… or otherwise difficult to find in performance editions, so it has previously seen very little scholarly attention. The dissertation includes a study of celebratory prescriptions for the feast at the Cathedral of Mexico City as described in primary source documents such as the …
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Johann Nauwach's <i>Teütscher Villanellen</i>: A Critical Performance Edition with Performance Practice Commentary
… <p>This dissertation provides a critical performance edition of Teütscher Villanellen. It includes settings of all the poetry verses provided in the original edition by Nauwach, translations of the poetry, translations of the dedication and dedicatory poem, and editorial notes. In …
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Tasteful piano performance in classic-era Britain
… has been little research into the conventions of performance with which this repertoire is inextricably associated. Moreover, scant attention has been given to the notions of taste that are so often encountered in contemporaneous music treatises and philosophical writings. This thesis addresses …
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A study on performing the Hungarian Rhapsodies in the Liszt tradition
… considering Liszt’s own ideas on music and performance, the writings and recordings of his pupils, and Liszt’s book Des Bohémiens et de leur musique en Hongrie (1859).
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The Interpreter as Co-Author: Pianists and the Practice of Interactive Re-Working
… musicological scholarship in the field of WAM performance studies has recognised the creative role of the interpreter, notions that equate work-interpretation with Werktreue have remained almost entirely uncontested, resulting in an apparent presupposition that the composer’s role in …