Performer''s Guide to Transcribing, Editing, and Arranging Early Music

In A Performer's Guide To Transcribing, Editing, and Arranging Early Music, author Alon Schab lays out a clear, accessible roadmap for adapting early pieces to today's ear.

List of contents

• Acknowledgements


• Introduction


• 1. Historical Sources on the Concert Stage


• 2. The Musical Text as a Point of Departure


• 3. Different Works, Different Versions, Neither or Both?


• 4. "The ear must be chief umpire" (Intuition and Critical Editing)


• 5. Historically Informed Arrangement


• 6. Writing for Early Instruments Today


• Bibliography

About the author

Alon Schab is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Music at the University of Haifa and a committee member of the Purcell Society. A musicologist, composer, and recorder player, he focuses on English music and has published extensively on the music of Henry Purcell.

Summary

In A Performer's Guide To Transcribing, Editing, and Arranging Early Music, author Alon Schab lays out a clear, accessible roadmap for adapting early pieces to today's ear.

Additional text

Alon Schab urges performers of early music to cultivate a 'historic curiosity.' His book should inspire many to do so. With well-chosen examples and lucid explanations, Schab gets readers into the inner workings of processes often taken for granted to the detriment of truly knowledgeable and committed music-making. No one who follows him on the paths he sets forth will fail to come out with greater enlightenment

Product details

• Authors: Alon Schab, Alon (Senior Lecturer in the Department of Schab
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.08.2022
• EAN: 9780197600658
• ISBN: 978-0-19-760065-8
• No. of pages: 286
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; MUSIC / Instruction & Study / General, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, Classical Music (C 1750 To C 1830), Techniques of music / music tutorials / teaching of music, Techniques Of Music / Music Tutorials, Classical style, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Western "classical" music