In recent years, scholars and musicians have become increasingly interested in the revival of musical improvisation as it was known in the Renaissance and Baroque periods. This historically informed practice is now supplanting the late Romantic view of improvised music as a rhap…
In recent years, scholars and musicians have become increasingly interested in the revival of musical improvisation as it was known in the Renaissance and Baroque periods. This historically informed practice is now supplanting the late Romantic view of improvised music as a rhap…
Cover; Contents; Preface; 1 The Underlying Philosophy; 2 My Way Toward Research; 3 The Limits of Notation; 4 The Notation, Its Perception, and Rendering; Pitch; Temperament; Tempo and Rubato; Rhythm; Phrasing; Articulation; Dynamics; Orchestration-Instrumentation-Arrangement; Ba…
Written by a leading authority and artist of the historical transverse flute, The Notation Is Not the Music offers invaluable insight into the issues of historically informed performance and the parameters--and limitations--of notation-dependent performance. As Barthold Kuijken …
Early music: a very short introduction