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Author Vial, Stephanie.

Title The art of musical phrasing in the eighteenth century : punctuating the classical "period" / Stephanie D. Vial.

Publication Info. Rochester : University of Rochester Press, 2008.

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 Talbott: Circulating Collection  ML457 .V53 2008    Available  ---
Description xvi, 358 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm.
Series Eastman studies in music, 1071-9989 ; [v. 55]
Eastman studies in music ; v. 55. 1071-9989
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-341) and index.
Contents Part 1. Establishing an historical perspective: Musical punctuation, the analogy ; A surprisingly complex and lively picture of pointing theory ; Musical "resting points of the spirit" -- Part 2. The art of interpreting rests: Written and unwritten rests ; Punctuation vs. articulation ; Affective punctuation -- Part 3. Case studies in musical punctuation: Musical prose F.W. Marpurg's essay on the punctuation of recitative ; Musical verse Johann Mattheson's "curious specimen" of a punctuated minuet -- Afterword -- Appendix A: Translation of Marpurg's Lessons on musical punctuation, from His Kritische Briefe über die Tonkunst, vol. 2 -- Appendix B: Chronological chart of punctuation references.
Subject Performance practice (Music) -- History -- 18th century.
Performance practice (Music)
History.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Music -- Interpretation (Phrasing, dynamics, etc.)
Music -- Interpretation (Phrasing, dynamics, etc.)
Musical notation.
Musical notation.
Frasering.
1700-1800.
Musikalische Aufführungspraxis.
Phrasierung.
Punkt Musik.
Artikulation Musik.
Chronological Term 1700-1799
Genre/Form History.
ISBN 9781580460347 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
1580460348