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Sandra P. Rosenblum has lectured widely on performance practices at universities, schools of music, and both national and international conferences. The author of numerous journal articles and of editions of sonatas by Scarlatti and Clementi, Ms. Rosenblum holds degrees from Wellesley College and Harvard University. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the Radcliffe Institute. Her present research is on the music of Chopin.
List of contents
Foreword by Malcolm Bilson
Preface: About Performance Practices
Acknowledgments
Sources of Figures
Introduction: Using this Book
Abbreviations
I. Background for the Study
II. The Fortepiano circa 1780-1820
III. Dynamics and Accentuation
IV. Use of the Pedals
V. Articulation and Touch
VI. Historical Technique and Fingering
VII. Ornaments
VIII. "Mixed Meters" and Dotted Rhythms
IX. Choice of Tempo
X. Flexibility of Rhythm and Tempo
XI. Performing Beethoven's Bagatelle Op. 126, No. 5
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the author
Sandra P. Rosenblum has lectured widely on performance practices at universities, schools of music, and both national and international conferences. The author of numerous journal articles and of editions of sonatas by Scarlatti and Clementi, Ms. Rosenblum holds degrees from Wellesley College and Harvard University. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the Radcliffe Institute. Her present research is on the music of Chopin.
