Performing History - Approaches to History Across Musicology

The fifteen essays of this volume glimpse the diverse ways music historians ¿dö history, and the diverse ways in which music histories matter. The book takes in historical musicology as well as ethnomusicology and popular music, showcasing the diverse lines of evidence and approaches suitable for music history studies.

List of contents

Table of ContentsIntroduction
Nancy November
HIP Experiences
1. Some Senses of History among HIP Performers
Mary Hunter
2. Counting to Four: The flûte du quatre in Charles Dieupart¿s Six Suittes (1701)
Imogen Morris
3. The French style of Viol Bowing and the enflé in the Works of Marin Marais
Polly Sussex
4. Contextual History through Rhetorical Visuality in Performing Monteverdi¿s Il pianto della Madonna
Daniela Kaleva
Performance as Celebration and Conservation
5. Celebrating and Enhancing a Virtual Past through Singing: The Polynesian Community on Tak¿
Richard Moyle
6. Reimagining Traditional Ritual Music of Sabah for Contemporary Performance as a Means of Conservation
Mia Palencia
Performing War
7. Historical Fidelity and Creative License in two Viennese Battles of the Nile
Allan Badley
8. Gallipoli to the Somme: A Musical Witness to History
Anthony Ritchie
9.  Britten¿s Primal Scream
Sterling Lambert
Staging Power and Enlightenment
10. Staging Power: The Role of Duchess Sophie Elisabeth of Braunschweig-Lüneburg (1613¿76) in Wolfenbüttel Court Festivities of the 1650s
Hannah Spracklan-Holl
11. An Enlightened Future History on the Milan Opera Stage: Niccolò Piccinni¿s Il regno della Luna
Lawrence Mays
Performing the Body and the Senses
12. ¿A New World is Opened up to View¿: Orchestral Gesture in Berlioz¿s Roméo et Juliette
Inge van Rij
13. Italian Futurism: Music and the Senses in the Modern Age
Jennifer Rumbell 
Performing the Popular
14. ¿Saxophones Sobbed Out Jazz¿: New Zealand¿s First Jazz Recording
Aleisha Ward
15. ¿To Display Her Chief Accomplishment¿: Domestic Manuscript Music Collections in Colonial Australia
Rosemary Richards
Author Biographies

About the author

Nancy November is currently an Associate Professor in musicology at the University of Auckland. Combining interdisciplinarity and cultural history, her research continues to center on chamber music of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, probing questions of historiography, canonization, and genre. Recent publications include Beethoven¿s Theatrical Quartets: Opp. 59, 74, and 95 (Cambridge University Press, 2013); a three-volume set of fifteen string quartets by Emmanuel Aloys Förster (A-R Editions, 2016); and Cultivating String Quartets in Beethoven¿s Vienna (Boydell Press, 2017). She is the recipient of a Humboldt Fellowship, and two Marsden Grants from the New Zealand Royal Society.

Summary

The fifteen essays of Performing History glimpse the diverse ways music historians "do" history, and the diverse ways in which music histories matter. Diverse lines of evidence and manifold methodologies are represented here, ranging from traditional historical archival research to interviewing, performing, and composing.

Product details

Assisted by	Nancy November (Editor)
Publisher	Academic Studies Press
Languages	English
Product format	Hardback
Released	31.08.2020
EAN	9781644693544
ISBN	978-1-64469-354-4
No. of pages	358
Dimensions	161 mm x 240 mm x 24 mm
Weight	702 g
Subjects	Humanities, art, music > Music > Music history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous

Product details

• Assisted by: Nancy November (Editor)
• Publisher: Academic Studies Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2020
• EAN: 9781644693544
• ISBN: 978-1-64469-354-4
• No. of pages: 358
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 240 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 702 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous