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The worlds of new music and historically informed performance might seem quite distant from one another. Yet, upon closer consideration, clear points of convergence emerge. This book addresses the synergies in aesthetics and practices in historical performance and new music.
List of contents
List of Figures
List of Music Examples
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Introduction
REBECCA CYPESS
PART I: Aesthetics and Media
1
Unfixed Media: On the Aesthetics of HIP and Interactive Computer Music
KIMARY FICK AND JASON FICK
2 Open-Source Performance Practice: The Laptop as an Instrument of Musical Democracy
DRAKE ANDERSEN
3 Minimalism and the Post-War Early Music Revival
LOREN LUDWIG
4 Historical Performance and the Ethos of Graphic Notation: Reading Pre-Twentieth-Century Scores through the Lens of an Avant-Garde Notation
DAVID HYUN-SU KIM, ELLY TOYODA, AND REBECCA CYPESS
PART II: Old Instruments for New Music
5 Parallel and Contemporary Vocal Practices: Vibrato, Historically Informed Performance, and New Music
RACHAEL LANSANG AND ERIC RICE
6 A Contemporary Lesson from an Ancient Flute: Tradition as a Key to Innovation
MATTEO GEMOLO
7 The Evolution of Modern Clavichord Music
FRANCIS KNIGHTS
8 A Natural Horn Revival in Contemporary Composition and Performance
J. DREW STEPHEN
9 Technology and/as Community in Molly Herron's
Through Lines (2021)
REBECCA CYPESS
PART III: Case Studies
10 Feeding the Flexible Omnivore: Collaborative Systems in A Far Cry and Roomful of Teeth
ESTELÍ GOMEZ AND SARAH DARLING
11 The Early Music Vocality of Cathy Berberian
KAILAN R. RUBINOFF
12 The Confrontation of Old and New in
Lost ObjectsVICTORIA ASCHHEIM
Bibliography, Audio, and Audio-Visual Sources
Index
About the author
Rebecca Cypess, musicologist and historical keyboardist, is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. Her publications include
Women and Musical Salons in the Enlightenment (2022) and
Curious and Modern Inventions: Instrumental Music as Discovery in Galileo's Italy (2016).
Estelí Gomez is Assistant Professor of Voice at Lawrence University. Praised for her "clear, bright voice" (
New York Times), she is a founding member of the Grammy-award-winning vocal octet Roomful of Teeth and a specialist in both early and new repertoires. Gomez holds degrees from Yale and McGill.
Rachael Lansang serves as Assistant Director of Academic Affairs at the Mannes School of Music. She holds a Ph.D. in Musicology from Rutgers University, and her research interests include vocal pedagogy, music and gender studies, and contemporary opera and musical theater.
