Early Sound Recordings: Academic Research and Practice

Hardcover, ix + 268 pages, NOT ex-library. Minor gentle wear, book is clean and bright throughout with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Issued without a dust jacket. -- "The use of historical recordings as primary sources is relatively well established in both musicology and performance studies and has demonstrated how early recording technologies transformed the ways in which musicians and audiences engaged with music. This edited volume offers a timely snapshot of a wide range of contemporary research in the area of performance practice and performance histories, inviting readers to consider the wide range of research methods that are used in this ever-expanding area of scholarship. The volume brings together a diverse team of researchers who all use early recordings as their primary source to research performance in its broadest sense in a wide range of repertoires within and on the margins of the classical canon - from the analysis of specific performing practices and parameters in certain repertoires, to broader contextual issues that call attention to the relationship between recorded performance and topics such as analysis, notation and composition. Including a range of accessible music examples, which allow readers to experience the music under discussion, this book is designed to engage with academic and non-academic readers alike, being an ideal research aid for students, scholars and performers, as well as an interesting read for early sound recording enthusiasts." -- Contents: Introduction; Part I: Interpreting Early Recordings: Cultural, Critical, and Contextual Approaches -- 1. Dactyls and Fire Spirits: Carl Reinecke's Written Publications on Mozart as a Guide to His Piano Rolls / Kate Bennett Wadsworth; 2. Individuality, Corporate Identity and the Development of Wind Playing Style in the Recordings of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and London Philharmonic Orchestra, 1930-1939 / Emily Worthington; 3. Expressive Portamento in "Ombra mai fu": An Analysis of Recordings by Cellists, Violinists and Singers 1906-1925 / Gabrielle Kaufman; 4. Earthy Singing, Sensuous Voices: Timbre and Orthodoxies of Beautiful Singing in Operatic Early Recordings (1900-1940) / Barbara Gentili & Daniele Palma; Part II. Animating the Archive: Early Recordings in Practice-Led Research -- 5. Understanding Joseph Joachim's Style and Practice: Recordings as a Research Tool / David Milsom; 6. Micro-temporal Measurements of Two Early Debussy Recordings as the Foundation for New Music / Richard Beaudoin; 7. Towards a Better Understanding of Ysaÿe's Portamento: A Comparative Study of Recorded and Annotated Evidence in a Practice-Based Approach / Joanna Staruch-Smolec; 8. (Re)constructing Early Recordings: Experimental Research as a Guide in Performance / Inja Stanovic; Part III. Rethinking Theory and Analysis: the Musical Work Viewed Through Early Recordings -- 9. From Notation to Stage to Recording in Spanish Zarzuela, 1896-1958 / Eva Moreda Rodríguez; 10. The Written and the Sung: Grieg's Piano Ballade and the Performativity of Genre / Georgia Volioti; 11. Early Recorded Structures: Non-organic Forms in Brahms's Cello Sonatas as Performed by Feuermann and Casals / Ana Llorens; 12. Trust in Early Recordings: Documents, Performances and Works / Adam Stanovic; Index.…