Julian Dodd offers an original approach to the controversial concept of authenticity in musical performance. He argues that the fundamental norm is not historical authenticity but interpretive authenticity: being faithful to the work by evincing a profound, far-reaching, or soph…
La 4ème de couverture indique : "The conventional way of understanding what musicians do as performers is to treat them as producers of sound; some even argue that it is unnecessary to see musicians in performance as long as one can hear them. But musical performance, counters P…
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…
"In 1921, insurance executive Charles Ives sent out copies of a piano sonata to two hundred strangers. Laden with dissonant chords, complex rhythm, and a seemingly chaotic structure, the so-called Concord Sonata confounded the recipients, as did the accompanying book, Essays bef…
