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9781848168817

Performers Voices Across Centuries and Cultures: Selected Proceedings of the 2009 Performer's Voice International Symposium; Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University of Singapore, 29

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    9781848168817

  • ISBN10:

    1848168810

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2012-12-15
  • Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc
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This book and its accompanying website present the selected proceedings of the inaugural, 'the Performer's Voice: An International Forum for Music Performance and Scholarship', directed by Dr Anne Marshman (editor) and hosted by the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University of Singapore. The chapters, which were selected through a process of international peer review, reflect the symposium's wide-ranging interdisciplinary scope, coupled with an uncompromising emphasis on the act of performance, the role of the performer and the professional performer's perspective.

Table of Contents

Editor's Prefacep. v
Acknowledgementsp. xi
List of Online Examplesp. xiii
List of Music Examplesp. xvii
List of Figures and Tablep. xix
Notes on Contributorsp. xxiii
The Performer's Voice
Where Things Stand Nowp. 1
The Performer's Voice and 'His Dualistic Soul': Hindemith Reconsideredp. 27
What Underwrites the Performer's Voice? A Bakhtinian Perspectivep. 43
Performer's Voices Across Centuries and Cultures
The port de voix in Louis Couperin's Unmeasured Preludes: A Study of Types, Functions and Interpretationp. 59
Explorations around Bass Parts and Key Schemes: Recording the Cantatas of Alessandro Scarlattip. 85
Marimba Plays Early Music: An Approach Informed by Historical Performance Practicep. 103
A Philosophy of the Performer's Voice and Its Performance in Works by Mozart and Stravinskyp. 121
The Literary Song Recital with Special Reference to Maudp. 137
'On the String in the Peasant Style': Performance Style in Early Recordings of Béla Bartók's Romanian FolkDancesp. 151
The Lowly Voice: The Singapore Bassist Voicep. 163
From Fortepiano to Modern Piano: A Case Study of a Performer-Composer Collaborationp. 177
Kung Fu Fan Turns Master: Eagle Claw Wu Tsiao Chen Winsp. 191
Indexp. 201
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