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Off the Record
Performing Practices in Romantic Piano Playing
Neal Peres da Costa
384 pages
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185 sheet music fascimiles and reproductions
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235x156mm
978-0-19-538691-2
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Hardback
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31 May 2012
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- Visit the companion website
- Analyzes Romantic performing practices as preserved on early piano recordings and piano rolls
- Challenges accepted ways of performing nineteenth-century piano repertoire
- Demonstrates gulf between theory and practice by comparing audible evidence and written texts
Off the Record is a revealing exploration of piano performing practices of the high Romantic era. Author and well-known pianist Neal Peres Da Costa bases his investigation on a range of early sound recordings (acoustic, piano roll and electric) that capture a generation of highly-esteemed pianists trained as far back as the mid-nineteenth-century. Placing general practices of late nineteenth-century piano performance alongside evidence of the stylistic idiosyncrasies of legendary pianists such as Carl Reinecke (1824-1910), Theodor Leschetizky (1830-1915), Camille Saint-Saëns (1838-1921) and Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), he
examines prevalent techniques of the time—dislocation, unnotated arpeggiation, rhythmic alteration, tempo fluctuation—and unfolds the background and lineage of significant performer/pedagogues. Throughout, Peres Da Costa demonstrates that these early recordings do not simply capture the idiosyncrasies of aging musicians as has been commonly asserted, but in fact represent a range of established expressive practices of a lost age.
An extensive collection of these rare and never-before-heard professional recordings of the Romantic age masters are available on a companion web site, and in addition, Peres Da Costa, himself a renowned period keyboardist, illustrates points made throughout the book with his own playing. Of essential value to student and professional
pianists, historical musicologists of 19th and early 20th century performance practice, and also to the general music aficionado audience, Off the Record is an indispensable resource for scholarly research, performance inspiration, and listening enjoyment.Readership: Students and scholars of romantic music, Western music history, recording technology, as well as piano performers and instructors.
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Neal Peres da Costa, Lecturer in Musicology and Chair of Early Music Unit, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney Neal Peres da Costa is Lecturer in Musicology and Chair of Early Music Unit, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney; renowned performer of Early Music and 17th-19th century historical keyboard instruments.
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"[Peres da Costa] has read everything, listened to everything and marshalled it into a well-written and logically organised narrative. His range of references is highly impressive. He has provided pianophiles with some thought-provoking questions." - Jeremy Nicholas, Gramophone
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Contents
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1 Early Recordings: Their Value as Evidence
Chapter 2 Playing One Hand After The Other - Dislocation
Chapter 3 Unnotated Arpeggiation
Chapter 4 Metrical Rubato and Other Forms of Rhythmic Alteration
Chapter 5 Tempo Modification
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Discography
Index
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