Choral Performance

A Guide to Historical Practice

Steven E. Plank (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

128 Seiten

2004
Scarecrow Press (Verlag)
978-0-8108-5141-2 (ISBN)

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This guide presents a detailed discussion of various aspects of historical performance practice, especially as they relate to liturgical polyphony of the Renaissance. The author considers such issues as timbre, tempo, and rhythm, the makeup of the ensemble, articulation, ornamentation, pitch and tuning, and interpretive goals—issues in which pre-modern choral technique and modern practice have often distinctively diverged. Musicological and performance perspectives are both drawn upon to address these issues in a manner that is both documentary as well as practical.

This study will be of interest to musicians who specialize in early music, but it is also particularly addressed to conductors and singers who come to early music from the mainstream and perform it in that context. Mainstream choral conductors faced with the need to develop expression in multiple styles across a broad repertory will come to find the interpretation of historical style a congenial ally.

Steven E. Plank is Chair of the Department of Musicology at Oberlin College. He is the author of the chapter "'Wrapped all in Woe': Passion Music in Late Medieval England" in The Broken Body (Groningen, 1998) and The Way to Heavens Doore: An Introduction to Liturgical Process and Musical Style (Scarecrow, 1994). He has also been a contributor to diverse music journals, including Early Music, Musical Times, Music & Letters, and Choir and Organ.

Part 1 Acknowledgments
Chapter 2 1 Introduction
Chapter 3 2 "It's on Account of the Sound It Is"
Chapter 4 3 The Ensemble
Chapter 5 4 What Pitches Shall We Sing?
Chapter 6 5 Rhythm, Tempo, and the Conductor's Gesture
Chapter 7 6 Articulation, Ornamentation, and Interpretation
Chapter 8 7 Putting Things into Practice
Chapter 9 8 So What?
Part 10 Bibliography
Part 11 Index
Part 12 About the Author

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.12.2004
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	169 x 212 mm
Gewicht	209 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
ISBN-10	0-8108-5141-5 / 0810851415
ISBN-13	978-0-8108-5141-2 / 9780810851412
Zustand	Neuware