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analytical approaches to piano interpretation
Artistic Prerogatives
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Author_Julian Hellaby
Brahms Handel Variations
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Chopin
Christ Child
comparative recording analysis
Dotted Crotchet
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Duration Manipulator
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Forthcoming Case Studies
Handel Op
Instrumental Recitative
interpretative frameworks
listener perception studies
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Messiaen's Performance
Messiaen's Score
Messiaen’s Performance
Messiaen’s Score
Metronome Markings
mode
moderator
Moura Lympany
music performance analysis
Performance Analysis
Pierre Laurent Aimard
Queen's Hall
Queen’s Hall
Regard De
Rida Johnson Young
solo keyboard works
sonic
Sonic Moderator
Stylus Phantasticus
Top Level Indications
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Topical Mode
Tower Framework
Western art music
Western Art Music Performance
Product details
- ISBN 9780754666677
- Weight: 584g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 11 Sep 2009
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Performance studies in the Western art music tradition have often been dominated by the relationship of theoretical score-analysis to performance, although some recent trends have aimed at dislodging the primacy of the score in favour of assessing performance on its own terms. In this book Julian Hellaby further develops these trends by placing performance firmly at the heart of his investigations and presents a structured approach to analysing the interpretation of a musical work from the perspective of a musically informed listener. To enable analysis of individual interpretations, the author develops a conceptual framework in which a series of performance-related categories is arranged hierarchically into an 'interpretative tower'. Using this framework to analyse the acoustic evidence of a recording, interpretative elements are identified and used to assess the relationship between a performance and a work. The viability of the interpretative tower is tested in three major case studies. Contrasting recorded performances of solo keyboard works by Bach, Messiaen and Brahms are the focus of these studies, and analysis of the performances, using the tower model, uncovers an interpretative rationale. The book is wide-ranging in scope and holistic in approach, offering a means of enhancing a listener's appreciation of an interpretation. It is richly illustrated with examples taken from commercial recordings and from the author's own recordings of the three focal works. Downloadable resources of the latter are included.
Julian Hellaby is Associate Senior Lecturer in music at Coventry University. He has performed in the Wigmore Hall and Purcell Room and has also appeared as concerto soloist, chamber musician, duettist (with Peter Noke) and accompanist in the UK and overseas. He has recorded six CDs of solo piano and chamber music.
