Historical Performance and New Music

Aesthetics and Practices
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-29142-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 546 g

Reihe: Studies in Contemporary Music and Culture

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. Not only do many contemporary performers move easily between these two worlds, but they often do so using a shared ethos of flexibility, improvisation, curiosity, and collaboration—collaboration with composers past and present, with other performers, and with audiences.

Bringing together expert scholars and performers considering a wide range of issues and case studies, Historical Performance and New Music—the first book of its kind—addresses the synergies in aesthetics and practices in historical performance and new music. The essays treat matters including technologies and media such as laptops, printing presses, and graphic notation; new music written for period instruments from natural horns to the clavichord; personalities such as the pioneering singer Cathy Berberian; the musically “omnivorous” ensembles A Far Cry and Roomful of Teeth; and composers Luciano Berio, David Lang, Molly Herron, Caroline Shaw, and many others.

Historical Performance and New Music presents pathbreaking ideas in an accessible style that speaks to performers, composers, scholars, and music lovers alike. Richly documented and diverse in its methods and subject matter, this book will open new conversations about contemporary musical life.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cypess, Rebecca

Gomez, Estelí

Lansang, Rachael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikinstrumente Instrumentenunterricht & Lernanleitungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.