The Pathetick Musician: Moving an Audience in the Age of Eloquence
- Author: Burgess, Geoffrey
- Author: Haynes, Bruce
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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Contents
- 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 AEsthetics 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 poesie 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