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Stolen Time - The History of Tempo Rubato (Paperback, Revised)
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Stolen Time - The History of Tempo Rubato (Paperback, Revised)
Series: Clarendon Paperbacks
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The history of tempo rubato ("stolen time") is as old as music
itself, composers and performers ever introducing expressive
fluctuation of the tempo contrary to music's precise notation. The
technique has been variously described by theorists and composers
as "an honest theft", "a pernicious nuisance", even "seductive" (by
Franz Liszt), yet it remains integral to the performance and
history of music. In this book, the author identifies and traces
the development of two main types of rubato: an earlier one in
which note values in a melody are altered while the accompaniment
keeps strict time, and a later, more familiar, one in which the
tempo of the entire musical substance fluctuates. In the course of
his narrative he ranges widely over Western music, from Gregorian
Chant to Chopin, from C.P.E. Bach to jazz, quoting extensively from
the writings of theorists, composers, and performers. In so doing
he not only suggests new ways of approaching the rubato in the
music of 19th century composers like Chopin and Liszt, where we
expect to encounter the term, but also illuminates the music of
earlier and later periods, revealing its use even in the music of
that most metronomic of composer
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