Playing The Cello 1780 1930

Author : George Kennaway
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317079817
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Playing the Cello, 1780–1930 written by George Kennaway and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative study of nineteenth-century cellists and cello playing shows how simple concepts of posture, technique and expression changed over time, while acknowledging that many different practices co-existed. By placing an awareness of this diversity at the centre of an historical narrative, George Kennaway has produced a unique cultural history of performance practices. In addition to drawing upon an unusually wide range of source materials - from instructional methods to poetry, novels and film - Kennaway acknowledges the instability and ambiguity of the data that supports historically informed performance. By examining nineteenth-century assumptions about the very nature of the cello itself, he demonstrates new ways of thinking about historical performance today. Kennaway’s treatment of tone quality and projection, and of posture, bow-strokes and fingering, is informed by his practical insights as a professional cellist and teacher. Vibrato and portamento are examined in the context of an increasing divergence between theory and practice, as seen in printed sources and heard in early cello recordings. Kennaway also explores differing nineteenth-century views of the cello’s gendered identity and the relevance of these cultural tropes to contemporary performance. By accepting the diversity and ambiguity of nineteenth-century sources, and by resisting oversimplified solutions, Kennaway has produced a nuanced performing history that will challenge and engage musicologists and performers alike.

Author : Dijana Ihas
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000970507
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teaching Violin, Viola, Cello, and Double Bass written by Dijana Ihas and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-23 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaching Violin, Viola, Cello, and Double Bass summarizes three centuries of string pedagogy treatises to create a comprehensive resource on methods and approaches to teaching all four bowed string instruments. Co-written by three performance and pedagogy experts, each specializing in different string instruments, this book is applicable to all levels of instruction. Essays on historical pedagogues are clearly structured to allow for easy comprehension of their philosophies, pedagogical practices, and unique contributions. This book concludes with a section on application through comparative analysis of the historical methods and approaches. With coverage from the eighteenth century to the present, this book will be invaluable for teachers and students of string pedagogy and general readers who wish to learn more about string pedagogy’s rich history, diverse content, and modern developments.

Author : David Milsom
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783275278
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Romantic Violin Performing Practices written by David Milsom and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2020 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the key topics that define Romantic violin playing?

Author : Gabrielle Kaufman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317130960
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gaspar Cassadó written by Gabrielle Kaufman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barcelonian Gaspar Cassadó (1897-1966) was one of the greatest cello virtuosi of the twentieth century and a notable composer and arranger, leaving a vast and heterogeneous legacy. In this book, Gabrielle Kaufman provides the first full-length scholarly work dedicated to Cassadó, containing the results of seven years of research into his life and legacy, after following the cellist’s steps through Spain, France, Italy and Japan. The study presents in-depth descriptions of the three main parts of Cassadó’s creative output: composition, transcription and performance, especially focusing on Cassadó’s plural and multi-facetted creativity, which is examined from both cultural and historical perspectives. Cassadó’s role within the evolution of twentieth-century cello performance is thoroughly examined, including a discussion regarding the musical and technical aspects of performing Cassadó’s works, aimed directly at performers. The study presents the first attempt at a comprehensive catalogue of Cassadó’s works, both original and transcribed, as well as his recordings, using a number of new archival sources and testimonies. In addition, the composer’s significance within Spanish twentieth-century music is treated in detail through a number of case studies, sustained by examples from recovered score manuscripts. Illuminated by extraordinary source material Gaspar Cassadó: Cellist, Composer and Transcriber expands and deepens our knowledge of this complex figure, and will be of crucial importance to students and scholars in the fields of Performance Practice and Spanish Music, as well as to professional cellists and advanced cello students.

Author : Vesa Kurkela
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317157206
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Music Historiography: Probing Canons, Ideologies and Institutions written by Vesa Kurkela and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the past two decades, there has emerged a growing need to reconsider the objects, axioms and perspectives of writing music history. A certain suspicion towards Francois Lyotard’s grand narratives, as a sign of what he diagnosed as our ’postmodern condition’, has become more or less an established and unquestioned point of departure among historians. This suspicion, at its most extreme, has led to a radical conclusion of the ’end of history’ in the work of postmodern scholars such as Jean Baudrillard and Francis Fukuyama. The contributors to Critical Music Historiography take a step back and argue that the radical view of the ’impossibility of history’, as well as the unavoidable ideology of any history, are counter-productive points of departure for historical scholarship. It is argued that metanarratives in history are still possible and welcome, even if their limitations are acknowledged. Foucault, Lyotard and others should be taken into account but systematized viewpoints and methods for a more critical and multi-faceted re-evaluation of the past through research are needed. As to the metanarratives of music history, they must avoid the pitfalls of evolutionism, hagiography, and teleology, all hallmarks of traditional historiography. In this volume the contributors put these methods and principles into practice. The chapters tackle under-researched and non-conventional domains of music history as well as rethinking older historiographical concepts such as orientalism and nationalism, and consequently introduce new concepts such as occidentalism and transnationalism. The volume is a challenging collection of work that stakes out a unique territory for itself among the growing body of work on critical music history.

Author : George Kennaway
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 178327641X
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Gunn written by George Kennaway and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2021 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the life and work of Scottish cellist and antiquarian John Gunn (1766-1824) through newly discovered sources.The Scottish cellist and antiquarian John Gunn (1766-1824) is unique among British writers on music in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Learned and practical, at home in classical and modern languages, knowledgeable in a wide range of musical topics and with even wider-ranging interests, and committed to the ideal of progress through rational thought, he typified the Enlightenment. His published output was large and diverse: a cello treatise in two quite different editions; two books on the flute and one on the piano; a treatise on figured bass; a history of the harp in the Highlands; and a translation of a French work of music theory. The list of his unrealised publications is even longer, including a proof of the oriental origins of the Scots. He married Anne Young, a well-known Edinburgh piano teacher, and his letters cast new light on the circumstances and date of her death. Taking account of Gunn's diverse experiences as a musician-scholar in Cambridge, London and Edinburgh, studying his sundry occupations, and exploring his social connections through a recently unearthed cache of his letters, this study moves away from 'treatise archaeology' and offers a broader view than is usually possible with such figures. The book will be of interest to those studying historical performance practice, music education in Enlightenment Britain, and the dissemination of Enlightenment thought.h. Taking account of Gunn's diverse experiences as a musician-scholar in Cambridge, London and Edinburgh, studying his sundry occupations, and exploring his social connections through a recently unearthed cache of his letters, this study moves away from 'treatise archaeology' and offers a broader view than is usually possible with such figures. The book will be of interest to those studying historical performance practice, music education in Enlightenment Britain, and the dissemination of Enlightenment thought.h. Taking account of Gunn's diverse experiences as a musician-scholar in Cambridge, London and Edinburgh, studying his sundry occupations, and exploring his social connections through a recently unearthed cache of his letters, this study moves away from 'treatise archaeology' and offers a broader view than is usually possible with such figures. The book will be of interest to those studying historical performance practice, music education in Enlightenment Britain, and the dissemination of Enlightenment thought.h. Taking account of Gunn's diverse experiences as a musician-scholar in Cambridge, London and Edinburgh, studying his sundry occupations, and exploring his social connections through a recently unearthed cache of his letters, this study moves away from 'treatise archaeology' and offers a broader view than is usually possible with such figures. The book will be of interest to those studying historical performance practice, music education in Enlightenment Britain, and the dissemination of Enlightenment thought.thought.

Author : Dorothy Churchill Pratt
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521339094
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cello Technique written by Dorothy Churchill Pratt and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1987 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume aims at rapid development and technical problems discussed for younger or less advanced students.

Author : Louis Potter (Jr.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Cello Playing written by Louis Potter (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christopher Bunting
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521241847
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essay on the Craft of 'cello-playing written by Christopher Bunting and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1982 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Harry Wimmer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780937205020
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The gestures of the (right) hand ; The hand: its unique properties written by Harry Wimmer and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: