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After the Golden Age - Romantic Pianism and Modern Performance (Hardcover): Kenneth Hamilton After the Golden Age - Romantic Pianism and Modern Performance (Hardcover)
Kenneth Hamilton
R1,419 Discovery Miles 14 190 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Kenneth Hamilton's book engagingly and lucidly dissects the oft-invoked myth of a Great Tradition, or Golden Age of Pianism. It is written both for players and for members of their audiences by a pianist who believes that scholarship and readability can go hand-in-hand. Hamilton discusses in meticulous yet lively detail the performance-style of great pianists from Liszt to Paderewski, and delves into the far-from-inevitable development of the piano recital. He entertainingly recounts how classical concerts evolved from exuberant, sometimes riotous events into the formal, funereal trotting out of predictable pieces they can be today, how an often unhistorical "respect for the score" began to replace pianists' improvisations and adaptations, and how the clinical custom arose that an audience should be seen and not heard. Pianists will find food for thought here on their repertoire and the traditions of its performance. Hamilton chronicles why pianists of the past did not always begin a piece with the first note of the score, nor end with the last. He emphasizes that anxiety over wrong notes is a relatively recent psychosis, and playing entirely from memory a relatively recent requirement. Audiences will encounter a vivid account of how drastically different are the recitals they attend compared to concerts of the past, and how their own role has diminished from noisily active participants in the concert experience to passive recipients of artistic benediction from the stage. They will discover when cowed listeners eventually stopped applauding between movements, and why they stopped talking loudly during them. The book's broad message proclaims that there is nothing divinely ordained about our own concert-practices, programming and piano-performance styles. Many aspects of the modern approach are unhistorical-some laudable, some merely ludicrous. They are also far removed from those fondly, if deceptively, remembered as constituting a Golden Age.

Liszt and Virtuosity (Hardcover): Robert Doran Liszt and Virtuosity (Hardcover)
Robert Doran; Contributions by David Keep, Dolores Pesce, Jim Samson, Jonathan Dunsby, …
R4,397 R3,775 Discovery Miles 37 750 Save R622 (14%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A new and wide-ranging collection of essays by leading international scholars, exploring the concept and practices of virtuosity in Franz Liszt and his contemporaries. In the annals of music history, few figures have dominated the discussion of virtuosity as much as Franz Liszt. A flamboyant performer whose hair-raising technical feats at the piano created a sense of awe-inspiring excitement andan icon whose star power radiated far beyond the realm of music, Liszt was, along with his early model, Paganini, among the first major performer-composers to define himself principally by virtuosity. Featuring new essays by an international group of preeminent scholars, Liszt and Virtuosity offers a reevaluation of the concept and practices of virtuosity as shaped and defined in Liszt's multifaceted oeuvre, as well as a reconsiderationof Liszt's relation to other major and lesser-known musical figures, including Czerny, Schubert, Chopin, Brahms, Debussy, and Marie Jaƫll. Set in the context of larger trends within the fields of music history, musicanalysis, intellectual history, and performance studies, these capacious explorations demonstrate that Liszt's uniqueness and significance resided in his ability to transform virtuosity into a revolutionary musical force, pushingthe piano aesthetic to the limits of sound and poetic meaning.

Liszt - Sonata in B Minor (Book): Kenneth Hamilton Liszt - Sonata in B Minor (Book)
Kenneth Hamilton
R880 Discovery Miles 8 800 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Liszt's B minor Sonata is now regarded as his finest work for piano, and one of the pinnacles of Romantic piano music. This book, written by a pianist who has performed the Sonata extensively, includes a survey of Liszt's early attempts at sonata composition and clears away some of the persisent myths regarding program music in Liszt's output. The central chapters, built around an analysis of the B minor Sonata, discuss various interpretative approaches, while the concluding chapter treats the performance practice and performing history of the work. This is the first book to elucidate this ground-breaking piece for the general reader.

Liszt - Sonata in B Minor (Hardcover, New): Kenneth Hamilton Liszt - Sonata in B Minor (Hardcover, New)
Kenneth Hamilton
R1,679 Discovery Miles 16 790 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Liszt's B minor Sonata is now regarded as his finest work for piano, and one of the pinnacles of Romantic piano music. This book, written by a pianist who has performed the Sonata extensively, includes a survey of Liszt's early attempts at sonata composition and clears away some of the persisent myths regarding program music in Liszt's output. The central chapters, built around an analysis of the B minor Sonata, discuss various interpretative approaches, while the concluding chapter treats the performance practice and performing history of the work. This is the first book to elucidate this ground-breaking piece for the general reader.

The Cambridge Companion to Liszt - Cambridge Companions to Music (Book): Kenneth Hamilton The Cambridge Companion to Liszt - Cambridge Companions to Music (Book)
Kenneth Hamilton
R908 Discovery Miles 9 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This Companion provides an up-to-date view of the music of Franz Liszt, its contemporary context and performance practice, written by some of the leading specialists in the field of nineteenth-century music studies. Although a core of Liszt's piano music has always maintained a firm hold on the repertoire, his output was so vast, influential and multi-faceted that scholarship too has taken some time to assimilate his achievement. This book offers students and music lovers some of the latest views in an accessible form. Katharine Ellis, Alexander Rehding and James Deaville present the biographical and intellectual aspects of Liszt's legacy, Kenneth Hamilton, James Baker and Anna Celenza give a detailed account of Liszt's piano music - including approaches to performance - Monika Hennemann discusses Liszt's Lieder, and Reeves Shulstad and Dolores Pesce survey his orchestral and choral music.

A Heart for God - Devotionals through the Life of David (Paperback): Hodari Kenneth Hamilton A Heart for God - Devotionals through the Life of David (Paperback)
Hodari Kenneth Hamilton
R516 Discovery Miles 5 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A History of the Engineering School of Princeton University, 1875-1955 (Paperback): Kenneth Hamilton Condit A History of the Engineering School of Princeton University, 1875-1955 (Paperback)
Kenneth Hamilton Condit
R711 Discovery Miles 7 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Cyrus Fogg Brackett, 1833-1915 Of Princeton - Pioneer In Electrical Engineering Education (Paperback): Kenneth Hamilton Condit Cyrus Fogg Brackett, 1833-1915 Of Princeton - Pioneer In Electrical Engineering Education (Paperback)
Kenneth Hamilton Condit
R548 Discovery Miles 5 480 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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