Performance Practices in Classic Piano Music: Their Principles and Applications (Music Scholarship and Performance)
Language: English
Published by Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis, 1988
- First Edition
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516 pp., xxviii. Stated: "First Midland Book Edition 1991"; this copy with '2' in number line. Five Plates and three Charts. Following the Preface by Malcolm Bilson; Preface: About Performance Practices; Acknowledgments; Sources of Figures; Introduction: Using This Book; and Abbreviations, Contents divided into 11 Sections: (I) "Background for the Study"; (II) "The Fortepiano circa 1780-1820"; (III) "Dynamics and Accentuations"; (IV) "Use of the Pedals"; (V) "Articulation and Touch"; (VI) "Historical Technique and Fingering"; (VII) "Ornaments"; (vIII) " ' Mixed Meters ' and Dotted Rhythms"; (X+IX) "Choice of Tempo"; (X) "Flexibility of Rhythm and Tempo"; (XI) "Performing Beethoven's Bagatelle Op. 126, No. 5"; Notes, pp. 401-486; Selected Bibliography, pp. 487-496; Index, pp. 497-516.// Glossy orange and black dustewrapper not price-clipped (no price) with Author name in small orange letters over black background across toop front cover, above part of Title lettering in white letters over black background, ' Piano Music ' in black letters over orange background for black and white photo-illustration of a Fortepiano (1819) by Matthaus Andreas Stein, partially superimposed upon the orange background shared with part of the Title lettering. Small wear at top spine and a 1/4" tear down from top edge at 2" away from top right spine corner; 1/8" tear at lower left spine corner (tears now backed with Archival tape); spine sunned to a light yellow, with 5/8" strip of similar sunning just below the black band across top rear cover (wrap-around from front cover) and for 1 1/2", diminishingly, from black band down left side rear cover to lower edge (evidently placed on the shelf adjacent to a smaller book): Describes worse than it is, but there you have it. NOW in Brodart mylar which graciously forgives trespasses.// Book itself: black cloth with brilliant gilt lettering on spine, in As New condition (dustwrapper did its job), little read, if at all, condition: Tight binding (NO cracks); sharp corners (NO bumps or curls); NO rubbing wear; NO remainder marks. Clean text. // Inscribed in cursive and dated by Author on lower third Title page, below her printed name, with kind expression, in five lines, of gratitude to dedicatee. // Arguably Gift-Giving condition or you may need new friends. (Postage to be determined at time of Order: will not fit USPS Priority Mail envelope for Domestic or International use.).…
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- Title
- Performance Practices in Classic Piano Music: Their Principles and Applications (Music Scholarship and Performance)
- Author
- Rosenblum, Sandra P.
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis
- Publication year
- 1988
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Signed
- Inscribed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0253343143
- ISBN 13
- 9780253343147
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 2nd Printing
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Performance today on either the pianoforte or the fortepiano can be at once joyful, musicianly, expressive, and historically informed. From this point of view, Sandra P. Rosenblum examines the principles of performing the music of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and their contemporaries as revealed in a variety of historical sources: their autographs and letters, early editions of their music, original instruments, and contemporary tutors and journals. She applies these findings to such elements of performance as dynamics, accentuation, pedaling, articulation and touch, technique and fingering, ornaments and embellishments, choice of tempo, and tempo flexibility.
Familiarity with the Classic conventions provides a framework for interpretation and an understanding of the choices available within the style, the amount of freedom a performer has, and which areas are ambiguous. Rosenblum’s detailed study, copiously illustrated with musical examples, is invaluable for professional and amateur performers, serious piano students and their teachers and students of performance practices by Scarlatti and Clementi.
... is and will remain unsurpassed as the study dealing with performance practice as it pertains to keyboard music of the Classical period." ―American Music Teacher
Rosenblum’s monumental achievement is thorough, objective, balanced, and imaginative, a compelling blend of love and respect for the solo, chamber, and concerto literature she addresses." ―Journal of Musicological Research
The extent and quality of her research, the depth of her perception, and her musicianship together break new ground in the study of historic performance practice." ―Early Keyboard Journal
Her attention to details is absolutely scrupulous; no stone unturned, no argument unquestioned or unstated." ―The Musical Times
Its importance to thoughtful musicians cannot be overstated." ―Choice
... thoroughly musicological." ―Performance Practice Review
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