Performance Practices in Classic Piano Music: Their Principles and Applications (Music Scholarship and Performance)

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Performance today on either the pianoforte or the fortepiano can be atonce joyful musicianly expressive and historically informed. From this point ofview Sandra P. Rosenblum examines the principles of performing the music of Haydn Mozart Beethoven and their contemporaries as revealed in a variety of their autographs and letters early editions of their music originalinstruments and contemporary tutors and journals. She applies these findings tosuch elements of performance as dynamics accentuation pedaling articulation andtouch technique and fingering ornaments and embellishments choice of tempo andtempo flexibility.Familiarity with the Classic conventionsprovides a framework for interpretation and an understanding of the choicesavailable within the style the amount of freedom a performer has and which areasare ambiguous. Rosenblums detailed study copiously illustrated with musicalexamples is invaluable for professional and amateur performers serious pianostudents and their teachers and students of performance practices by Scarlatti andClementi...". is and will remain unsurpassed as the studydealing with performance practice as it pertains to keyboard music of the Classicalperiod." -- American Music Teacher"Rosenblums monumentalachievement is thorough objective balanced and imaginative a compelling blend oflove and respect for the solo chamber and concerto literature she addresses."-- Journal of Musicological Research"The extent and qualityof her research the depth of her perception and her musicianship together breaknew ground in the study of historic performance practice." -- Early KeyboardJournal"Her attention to details is absolutely scrupulous; nostone unturned no argument unquestioned or unstated." -- The MusicalTimes"Its importance to thoughtful musicians cannot beoverstated." -- Choice..". thoroughly musicological." --Performance Practice Review..". indispensable... " -- New YorkTimes