Overview

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.

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Author:   Rebecca Cypess ,  Estelí Gomez ,  Rachael Lansang
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.560kg
ISBN:  

9781032291420

ISBN 10:   1032291427
Pages:   234
Publication Date:   30 November 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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

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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

Author Information

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.

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