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Romantic Violin Performing Practices
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335 Pages

23.4 x 15.6 cm

24 b/w, 11 line illus.

Imprint: Boydell Press

Romantic Violin Performing Practices

A Handbook

by David Milsom

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What are the key topics that define Romantic violin playing?

This book discusses key issues (and barriers) of putting into practice nineteenth-century violin performing practices. It deals with a number of well-known problems concerning romantic performance including the widely perceived 'gap' between scholarship and the act of performance. Taking account of a modernist revolution in performing practices and aesthetic thought in the twentieth century, the book focuses on key topics to define romantic violin playing.

Practically-focused chapters discuss key aspects of performing practice evidence. The book then moves into a case-study phase to discuss examples from the author's long experience. It concludes with practical advice and exercises to enable students to begin experimenting with the assimilation of such practices into their own performance. In this way, the proposed structure aims to be a 'handbook' proper. The handbook ends by looking to the future and suggesting practical ways for violinists to adopt what has been discussed in the text. The continued centrality of nineteenth-century music in contemporary concert life makes the importance of the topic self-evident.
Introduction
Mind the Gap: Of Chasms, Historical Research, and 'Romantic' Performance
A Modernist Revolution?
A Violinistic 'Bel Canto'?
A Violinistic 'Declamatory' Ideal?
Organology and its Implications
Teaching Perspectives: Treatises
Editions as Evidence
Recordings as a Window upon 'Romantic' Performing Practice
The 'Leeds School': Autoethnographic Reflections on Historical Emulations
Joseph Joachim: A Case Study
Technical Exercises
Stylistic Exercises
Conclusion
Book Website Information
Bibliography
Discography
Other References (Conference Talks & Lectures)

DAVID MILSOM is Senior Lecturer in Music and Head of Performance at the University of Huddersfield. Milsom is a performing and recording Violinist.

"From the first pages, Milsom's authoritativeness as a performer and scholar of romantic performance practices comes to the fore immediately. Any library that collects works of violin pedagogy to any reasonable depth of coverage will benefit from adding this and Milsom's other writings to their collection." MUSIC REFERENCE SERVICES QUARTERLY

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Title Details

335 Pages

2.34 x 1.56 cm

24 b/w, 11 line illus.

Imprint: Boydell Press