provides early music and mainstream performers with an engaging and workable vocabulary for analyzing recordings as well as shaping and conceptualizing personal performance decisions.

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Baroque oboists Bruce Haynes and Geoffrey Burgess established reputations as authorities on the history of their instrument with their co-authored book The Oboe, voted an outstanding achievement by the American Music Instrument Society. Haynes' writings, notably The End of Early Music, are known for pioneering new approaches in historical performance practice and inspiring healthy debate among scholars and performers of early music. Burgess, an instructor at the Eastman School of Music, recently published Well-Tempered Woodwinds: Friedrich von Huene and the Making of Early Music in a New World, which combines the biography of a leading manufacturer of historic instruments with a history of the emerging early music scene in America. Bruce Haynes passed away in May, 2011.

Klappentext

What is rhetorical music? In The Pathetick Musician, Bruce Haynes and Geoffrey Burgess illustrate the vital place of rhetoric and eloquent expression in the creation and performance of Baroque music.

Inhalt

• Foreward: Aus der Tiefe (Geoffrey Burgess)

• Acknowledgements

• List of Musical Examples and Figures

• List of Audio Examples

• Preface: Pipe Dreams (Bruce Haynes)

• Part I

• Introduction: The Eloquent Musician (BH)

• The Truth in Eloquence

• Rhetorical Music

• The Pathetick Musician

• 'Ut pictura poesis'

• The Officers of Rhetoric

• Style Coaches

• Further Reading

• Chapter 1: In the Realm fo the Passions (GB)

• Humanism and the Rhetorical Ethos

• Seconda pratica

• Of Æsthetics and Beauty

• Autonomous Music and 'Art for Art's sake'

• Personally expressing passions or Passionately expressing persons?

• Further Reading

• Chapter 2: The Principles of Eloquence: The Artist's Toolbox (GB)

• The Offices of Rhetoric

• Structuring Rhetoric

• The Sense of Music

• On the possibility of a Figurenlehre

• Further Reading

• Chapter 3: Bach's Expressive Universe (GB)

• Imitation: Portraying and Evoking the World

• 'Clear running water': Schweitzer's Legacy

• Figuring Bach's World

• Bach the Poet, Bach the Painter

• Onomatopoeia

• Landscapes and 'Paintings of Life'

• Further Reading

• Chapter 4: Bach's Passionate Inner world (GB)

• General and Particular Expression

• Reading Bach's Passions

• Fear and Tremolo

• Antithesis: At Odds with oneself

• Polyphonies of Passions: Passions in Polyphony

• The Proximity of Opposites

• Further Reading

• Part II

• Chapter 5: Enhancing Eloquence in Performance (Elocutio) (GB)

• The 'Intentional Fallacy' Fallacy: Whose Intention?

• Elocutio: the Essence of Performance Practice

• 'Humouring' the score

• Tempo and Affekt

• Light and shadow

• Further Reading

• Chapter 6: Figures: Spinning straw into gold (GB)

• Public Speaking, Public Musicking

• Declamation as Figurative Speech

• Figures as Glosses and Ornamentation

• Essential Graces

• Graces as Glosses

• The Salt of Music: the Spice of Dissonance

• Graces as Passionate Expression

• Structuring Ornaments: Passaggi and Paraphrase

• Ornaments in History

• Further Reading

• Chapter 7: The expressive Gesture (GB)

• Audible architecture

• Articulating the Musical Gesture

• The Breath of Life

• Agogics

• The Agogic Accent,

• The Agogic Pickup,

• The Agogic Placement,

• The Hesitation

• Finding the Poetry in the Notes

• Pause to Reflect

• Gesture and Character

• Gesturing towards the Phrase

• Further Reading

• Chapter 8: Kairos: Expressive Timing (GB)

• Chronos and Kairos: Two kinds of time

• The metronome and the modern tendency toward Chronos

• The beat, or pulse in Baroque Music

• 'The true motion of the Bass'

• Tempo Fluctuation

• Borrowed time

• Kairos: Isolating Musical Events

• Timing in Dance Music

• Further Reading

• Chapter 9: To Kindle the Heart: Engagement in Performance (GB)

• The sovereign Audience

• Authentic Ears

• Music in the Body

• The Meaning of Vortrag

• 'The Unutterable Ravishing Soul's Delight'

• Dance: Une poësie muette

• Sincerity in Performance

• Mental Multitasking

• Further Reading

• Chapter 10: Analysing Expression in Recordings of Bach's cantatas (BH)

• Appendix: Bibliography of the Writings of Bruce Haynes

• General Bibliography

• Index