Franz Schubert's music in performance : compositional ideals, notational intent, historical realities, pedagogical foundations / David Montgomery.
| Author/creator | Montgomery, David |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Hillsdale, NY : Pendragon Press, 2003. |
| Description | xx, 319 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Monographs in musicology ; no. 11 Monographs in musicology no. 11. ^A174825 |
| Contents | Foreword / Ernst Hilmar -- The sonic imagination -- The "sound" of the instrumental works -- The "sound" of Schubert's lieder -- Voice types and techniques -- Dramatic vs narrative -- Accompanimental transcriptions -- Keys and transpositions -- Temperaments and tuning -- Translations -- The thematic, structural and temporal imagination -- Repeats -- Harmonic direction, repetition, and length -- Metaphors of time -- A note on introductions and postludes -- Reading Schubert's music -- Assessing editions and choosing scores -- Schubert's notation -- Lingering myths about Schubert's notation -- Literal vs. contextual values in Schubert: the historical background -- The flexible dot -- Overdotting -- Underdotting -- The Viennese sources -- Dotted figures against sextuplets -- The alignment theory -- Assimilation as a contextual choice -- Fermatas -- Notational shorthand: implied vs. explicit -- Expression and expressive devices -- Rubato -- Schubert and "Viennese" rhythm -- Trillo, bebung, tremolo, vibrato, ondeggiando, etc -- Dynamics: ranges, levels, and layering -- Accentuation -- Hairpin accents vs. decrescendos -- The tenuto-agogic hairpin -- The pure tenuto -- Articulation: dots, strokes, slurs, tenutos, bowing vs. phrasing marks, pizzicatos -- Bowing, slurring, and breathing -- Pedalling -- Essential and voluntary ornamentation -- Essential ornamentation -- Trills -- Appoggiaturas -- The long appoggiatura -- Short appoggiatura -- Voluntary ornamentation and improvisation -- Improvisation and ornamentation in the opera -- Ornamentation in the lieder -- The "Vogl" controversy, once again -- The Abschriften (copies) -- Ornamentation and embellishment in the instrumental music -- Musical structure and the argument for embellishment -- Tempo, time, and character. Relative tempos -- Tempo, meter, and character -- The duple meters -- The triple meters -- The quadruple meters -- Thinking down, thinking up -- Tempo fluctuation -- Absolute tempo -- In conslusion -- Appendices. Tempo rubato: a short overview ; Ludwig van Beethoven: So oder so ; The pedagogical sources: methods and tutors ; Selected period and modern literature ; Recordings mentioned in this book. |
| Abstract | This book challenges many operative myths about the music of this great, but often misunderstood, Viennese master. Chief among them is the lingering notion that Schubert was poorly-trained but still managed to turn out brilliant, if often flawed, scores. Modern adherents of this view believe that Schubert could not notate his own musical wishes accurately, and that he was principally a creature of intuition. Accordingly, musicians might allow themselves wide intuitive leeway in the interpretation of his music. Another myth challenged by the author is that Schubert was a conservative, or perhaps even a chronological throwback. Opposing recent attempts to legitimize performer-generated embellishment of Schubert's music in the style of the eighteenth century, he clarifies Schubert's contributions to the radical intellectualism of nineteenth-century romanticism. The book offers six informative chapters ranging from aesthetics and acoustics to the specifics of tempo and expression, plus an appendix of pertinent Viennese pedagogical sources. In addition to many years of musicological research, the author brings long experience as a concertizing pianist and conductor to this engaging and controversial work. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references, discography (pages 315-316), and index. |
| LCCN | 2002035895 |
| ISBN | 1576470253 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music | Music Stacks | ML410.S3 M66 2003 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |