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Early Recordings and Musical Style - Changing Tastes in Instrumental Performance, 1900-1950 (Book, New Ed)
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Early Recordings and Musical Style - Changing Tastes in Instrumental Performance, 1900-1950 (Book, New Ed)
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Until recently, early recordings were regarded as little more than
old-fashioned curiosities. Scholars and musicians now are beginning
to realise their importance as historical documents which preserve
the performances of Elgar, Rachmaninoff, Stravinsky, and other
composers, and of the musicians with whom they worked. In a more
general way, recordings reveal the detailed performance practice of
the early twentieth century and illustrate how styles have changed
over the years. Early recordings also shed new light on
nineteenth-century performance, but at the same time they highlight
the limitations of our attempts to recreate the styles of the
period before the development of recording. In this fascinating and
detailed study, Robert Philip argues that recordings of the early
twentieth century provide an important, and hitherto neglected,
resource in the history of musical performance. The book
concentrates on aspects of performance which underwent the greatest
change in the early twentieth century: rhythm, including
flexibility of tempo, rubato, and the treatment of rhythmic detail;
the use of vibrato; and the employment of portamento by
stringplayers. The final chapters explore some of the implications
of these changes, both for the study of earlier periods and for the
understanding of our own attitudes to the music of the past. The
book contains information tables, music examples, and a discography
and will be of interest to scholars and students of music history
and performance practice as well as to musicians and collectors of
historical recordings.
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