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The past ten years have seen a rapidly growing interest in performing and recording Classical and Romantic music with period instruments; yet the relationship of composers' notation to performing practices during that period has received only sporadic attention from scholars, and many aspects of composers' intentions have remained uncertain. Brown here identifies areas in which musical notation conveyed rather different messages to the musicians for whom it was written than it does to modern performers, and seeks to look beyond the notation to understand how composers might have expected to hear their music realized in performance. There is ample evidence to demonstrate that, in many respects, the sound worlds in which Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, and Brahms created their music were more radically different from ours than is generally assumed.Product Identifiers
PublisherOxford University Press
ISBN-139780195166651
eBay Product ID (ePID)89753123
Product Key Features
Book TitleClassical and Romantic Performing Practice 1750-1900
Publication Year2004
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
AuthorClive Brown
TopicMusic
Dimensions
Item Height233 mm
Item Weight1019 g
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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorClive Brown