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The Art of Musical Phrasing in the Eighteenth Century - Punctuating the Classical "Period" (Hardcover, 2Rev ed)
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The Art of Musical Phrasing in the Eighteenth Century - Punctuating the Classical "Period" (Hardcover, 2Rev ed)
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
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Practical suggestions, and documentary evidence, for performers
wishing to understand the gestures and nuances embedded in
eighteenth-century musical notation. There are, of course, no
commas, periods, or question marks in music of the Baroque and
Classic eras. Nonetheless, the concept of "punctuating" music into
longer and shorter units of expression was richly explored by many
of the era's leading composers, theorists, and performers. The Art
of Musical Phrasing in the Eighteenth Century gathers and
discusses, for the first time, an extensive collection of
quotations and musical illustrations relevant tophrase articulation
and written and unwritten rests. Among the notable authors cited
and discussed are Muffat, Telemann, C. P. E. Bach, Mattheson,
Marpurg, Tartini, and Mozart's father Leopold (author of the most
important eighteenth-century treatise on string playing). On a
larger scale, The Art of Musical Phrasing demonstrates the role of
punctuation within the history of rhetoric during the Age of
Enlightenment. From this, the performer of todaycan gain a greater
appreciation for both the strengths and shortcomings of the analogy
that writers of the day drew between punctuation in written
language and in music. Modern performers, argues Vial, have the
challenge andresponsibility of understanding and conveying the
nuances, inflections, and rhythmic gestures deeply embedded in
eighteenth-century musical notation. The Art of Musical Phrasing,
the fruit of Vial's rich experience as a cellist performing on both
period and modern instruments, lays out long-needed practical
suggestions for achieving this goal. Stephanie D. Vial performs and
records widely as a cellist and has taught at the University
ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University.
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