Historical Performance and New Music

ISBN-13: 9781032291420 / Twarda / 2023 / 248 str.

Opis

The worlds of new music and historically informed performance might seem quite distant from one another. Yet, upon closer consideration, clear points of convergence emerge. This book addresses the synergies in aesthetics and practices in historical performance and new music.

Recenzje

The early music revival and the new music scene have been inspiring each other and cross-pollinating for several decades.　Historical Performance and New Music: Aesthetics and Practices　presents a groundbreaking and comprehensive exploration of the dynamic relationship between these two domains by bringing together first-hand testimonies from some of the most authoritative, experienced, and original voices in both scholarship and practice. This pioneering work delves into the intertwining threads that connect early and new music, shedding new light on performance practice, instrumentarium, and notation. It is a must-read for composers and performers immersed in both realms, encouraging a reevaluation of the historical context of the early music revival and a broader outlook on contemporary repertoire, to the extent of redefining the boundaries of historical performance.

-Alon Schab, author of A Performer's Guide to Transcribing, Editing and Arranging Early Music

Spis treści

List of Figures

List of Music Examples

List of Tables

List of Contributors

Introduction

REBECCA CYPESS

PART I: Aesthetics and Media

1 Unfixed Media: On the Aesthetics of HIP and Interactive Computer Music

KIMARY FICK AND JASON FICK

2 Open-Source Performance Practice: The Laptop as an Instrument of Musical Democracy

DRAKE ANDERSEN

3 Minimalism and the Post-War Early Music Revival

LOREN LUDWIG

4 Historical Performance and the Ethos of Graphic Notation: Reading Pre-Twentieth-Century Scores through the Lens of an Avant-Garde Notation

DAVID HYUN-SU KIM, ELLY TOYODA, AND REBECCA CYPESS

PART II: Old Instruments for New Music

5 Parallel and Contemporary Vocal Practices: Vibrato, Historically Informed Performance, and New Music

RACHAEL LANSANG AND ERIC RICE

6 A Contemporary Lesson from an Ancient Flute: Tradition as a Key to Innovation

MATTEO GEMOLO

7 The Evolution of Modern Clavichord Music

FRANCIS KNIGHTS

8 A Natural Horn Revival in Contemporary Composition and Performance

J. DREW STEPHEN

9 Technology and/as Community in Molly Herron’s Through Lines (2021)

REBECCA CYPESS

PART III: Case Studies

10 Feeding the Flexible Omnivore: Collaborative Systems in A Far Cry and Roomful of Teeth

ESTELÍ GOMEZ AND SARAH DARLING

11 The Early Music Vocality of Cathy Berberian

KAILAN R. RUBINOFF

12 The Confrontation of Old and New in Lost Objects

VICTORIA ASCHHEIM

Bibliography, Audio, and Audio-Visual Sources

Index

O autorze

Rebecca Cypess, musicologist and historical keyboardist, is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. Her publications include Women and Musical Salons in the Enlightenment (2022) and Curious and Modern Inventions: Instrumental Music as Discovery in Galileo’s Italy (2016).

Estelí Gomez is Assistant Professor of Voice at Lawrence University. Praised for her “clear, bright voice” (New York Times), she is a founding member of the Grammy-award-winning vocal octet Roomful of Teeth and a specialist in both early and new repertoires. Gomez holds degrees from Yale and McGill.

Rachael Lansang serves as Assistant Director of Academic Affairs at the Mannes School of Music. She holds a Ph.D. in Musicology from Rutgers University, and her research interests include vocal pedagogy, music and gender studies, and contemporary opera and musical theater.