Notes Become Music: A Guidebook from the Viennese Piano Tradition - Softcover

Fleischmann, Walter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367202263 ISBN 13: 9780367202262

Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

Notes Become Music: A Guidebook from the Viennese Piano Tradition addresses the many unwritten nuances of dynamics, articulation and agogics as an expression of fundamental principles of a common European musical language. It treats the score as an incomplete musical shorthand that outlines the compositional and interpretive imperatives implicit within it, drawing on historical records from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and detailed comparisons of works to underline the author’s presentation of Viennese tradition.

This book is not primarily concerned with questions of style or interpretation. Rather, it explains the many facets of musical notation that were taken for granted by composers who assumed a knowledge of the piano tradition of their day. Notes Become Music informs not only those students in countries where the central European music tradition is still unfamiliar, but also a younger generation of Europeans who have grown up without a living connection to their musical past.

About this title

About the Author

Walter Fleischmann is Professor Emeritus of Piano at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367202263
• ISBN 13: 9780367202262
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 116