Bowing Styles, Vibrato and Portamento in Nineteenth-Century Violin Playing

1988 ◽  
Vol 113 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clive Brown
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Performance Practice ◽  
Short Article ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Violin Technique ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Violin Playing

There are many aspects of nineteenth-century violin playing that have received little attention from scholars. The subject is a vast and complicated one, far beyond the scope of a short article to treat adequately, but there are a number of important areas in which problems have not even been recognized, let alone investigated. For instance, the most substantial recent work on this subject, Robin Stowell's Violin Technique and Performance Practice in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries (Cambridge, 1985), provides a useful digest of what the major violin methods of the period say, but because it is mainly confined to these sources, ignoring for the most part journalism and other contemporary accounts, and because it has a rather artificial terminal date of 1840, it fails to illuminate major underlying patterns of continuity and change in nineteenth-century violin playing. It may be valuable, therefore, to put forward a few ideas and suggest a few fruitful lines of enquiry which have until now remained largely unconsidered.

ARTISTIC AND AESTHETIC EDUCATION AND MUSICAL PSYCHOTHERAPY OF A SPECIALIST’S TRAINING

2020 ◽  
Vol 384 (2) ◽  
pp. 222-232
Author(s):  
P. V. Menshikov ◽  
G. K. Kassymova ◽  
R. R. Gasanova ◽  
Y. V. Zaichikov ◽  
V. A. Berezovskaya ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Performance Practice ◽  
Piano Music ◽  
Traumatic Experiences ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Native Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Many ◽  
Special Meaning

A special role in the development of a pianist as a musician, composer and performer, as shown by the examples of the well-known, included in the history of art, and the most ordinary pianists, their listeners and admirers, lovers of piano music and music in general, are played by moments associated with psychotherapeutic abilities and music features. The purpose of the study is to comprehend the psychotherapeutic aspects of performing activities (using pianists as an example). The research method is a theoretical analysis of the psychotherapeutic aspects of performing activities: the study of the possibilities and functions of musical psychotherapy in the life of a musician as a “(self) psychotherapist” and “patient”. For almost any person, music acts as a way of self-understanding and understanding of the world, a way of self-realization, rethinking and overcoming life's difficulties - internal and external "blockages" of development, a way of saturating life with universal meanings, including a person in the richness of his native culture and universal culture as a whole. Art and, above all, its metaphorical nature help to bring out and realize internal experiences, provide an opportunity to look at one’s own experiences, problems and injuries from another perspective, to see a different meaning in them. In essence, we are talking about art therapy, including the art of writing and performing music - musical psychotherapy. However, for a musician, music has a special meaning, special significance. Musician - produces music, and, therefore, is not only an “object”, but also the subject of musical psychotherapy. The musician’s training includes preparing him as an individual and as a professional to perform functions that can be called psychotherapeutic: in the works of the most famous performers, as well as in the work of ordinary teachers, psychotherapeutic moments sometimes become key. Piano music and performance practice sets a certain “viewing angle” of life, and, in the case of traumatic experiences, a new way of understanding a difficult, traumatic and continuing to excite a person event, changing his attitude towards him. It helps to see something that was hidden in the hustle and bustle of everyday life or in the patterns of relationships familiar to a given culture. At the same time, while playing music or learning to play music, a person teaches to see the hidden and understand the many secrets of the human soul, the relationships of people.

Romantic Periodicals in the Twenty-First Century

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
First Century ◽  
British Romanticism ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Periodical Studies ◽  
Digital Resources ◽  
Literary Periodicals ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Twenty First Century

While the twenty-first century has brought a wealth of new digital resources for researching late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century serials, the subfield of Romantic periodical studies has remained largely inchoate. This collection sets out to begin tackling this problem, offering a basic groundwork for a branch of periodical studies that is distinctive to the concerns, contexts and media of Britain’s Romantic age. Featuring eleven chapters by leading experts on the subject, it showcases the range of methodological, conceptual and literary-historical insights to be drawn from just one of the era’s landmark literary periodicals, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine. Drawing in particular on the trove of newly digitised content, specific essays model how careful analyses of the incisive and often inflammatory commentary, criticism and original literature from Blackwood’s first two decades (1817–37) might inform and expand many of the most vibrant contemporary discussions surrounding British Romanticism.

Felix Mendelssohn – St. Paul

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis Shrock
Keyword(s):  
Performance Practice ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Felix Mendelssohn

This chapter begins with a discussion of Mendelssohn’s development as a composer, his involvement with the works of J. S. Bach and Handel, and the genesis of St. Paul. Following is material related to the libretto, Mendelssohn’s process of revision, the various premieres of the oratorio, its reception by critics and the public, and Mendelssohn’s interest in past historical styles of music. Musical discussion is focused on the structures of arias, choruses, and chorales, and performance practice issues include Mendelssohn’s views on the subject, as well as performance of St. Paul in German or English, arrangement of singers and instrumentalists on stage, and the treatment of fermatas and recitative.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
General Public ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
The Subject

Usage guides are an extremely popular genre, as is evident from new titles being published year after year and established ones being revised and reprinted. They are a marketable product, as both writers and publishers know. The genre did not start with Fowler, despite what many people think; it has a long history going back to the late eighteenth century. Usage advice today is also found online, while it was already the subject of satire in Punch during the nineteenth century. Yet how many usage problems there are is something authors—journalists, writers, but also linguists—show no consensus on. Usage problems come and go, and attitudes to them, expressed both by the general public and by usage guide writers, are found to change over the years. Some works remain remarkably conservative, which appears to be what is desired by readers who often feel insecure about what exactly proper English is.

scholarly journals Playing the Spinal Chord: Tantric Musicology and Bengali Songs in the Nineteenth Century

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 319-338
Author(s):  
Richard David Williams
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Music Theory ◽  
Performance Practice ◽  
The Body ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Esoteric Knowledge ◽  
Spinal Chord ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Innovative Techniques

Abstract Across the nineteenth century, Bengali songbook editors applied musicological theory to their tantric religious practices. Responding to the new possibilities of musical publishing, these editors developed innovative techniques of relating the body to music by tying together tantric tropes with music theory and performance practice. Theories about the affective potential and poetic connotations of rāgas were brought into conversation with understandings of the yogic body, cakras, and the visualization of goddesses. These different theories, stemming from aesthetics and yogic philosophy, were put into effect through lyrical composition and the ways in which songs were set to music and edited for printed anthologies. This article considers different examples of tantric musical editorial, and explores how esoteric knowledge was applied in innovative ways through the medium of printed musical literature.

Dreams of a More Perfect Union By Rogan Kersh. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001. 358p. $39.95.

2002 ◽  
Vol 96 (3) ◽  
pp. 642-643
Author(s):  
Robert W. T. Martin
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
National Union ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject

Rogan Kersh's ambitious and well-researched book traces the history of the concept of American national “union” from the middle of the eighteenth century to the end of the nineteenth century, when the concept lost the peculiar force it had had and fell out of use (more or less replaced by such concepts as “nation,” “country,” and, especially, “America”). The analysis demonstrates how the concept of national union has been used in exclusive as well as inclusive ways. The subject is an important one, especially to an America united by terrorist threats. And it is a topic made more conspicuous in the last decade by our ongoing discourse over multiculturalism. So the concept of national union is perhaps less obscure and more relevant than Kersh suggests (p. 3). Connections to the recent work of Rogers Smith (Civic Ideals, 1997) are also apparent. Still, the term itself has been out of favor for about a century now, so Kersh's study is a welcome effort to get us thinking about a relatively novel topic.

Serving the Empire? The Ukrainian Nobility in the Late Eighteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 145-161
Author(s):  
Svitlana Potapenko
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Left Bank ◽  
Historical Collections ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Scholarly Attention

Abstract The focus of this article lays on the Cossack-rooted noble stratum on the Left Bank Ukrainian lands in the course of the long nineteenth century. It is asserted that various aspects of the issue have attracted scholarly attention in recent decades. The author approaches the subject through the examination of literary and historical works as well as private historical collections which the Ukrainian noble families possessed during the period. The evocative role of these artifacts is evaluated from the perspective of the “Cossack myth” and the restoration of the hetmancy in 1918.

scholarly journals Human security and the rise of the social

2011 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 547-567 ◽  
Author(s):  
PATRICIA OWENS
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Human Security ◽  
Political Realism ◽  
Alternative Framework ◽  
Political Theorist ◽  
International Theory ◽  
The Social ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
Critical Approaches ◽  
The Subject

AbstractAs the concept of human security has become part of the mainstream discourse of international politics it should be no surprise that both realist and critical approaches to international theory have found the agenda wanting. This article seeks to go beyond both the realist and biopolitical critiques by situating all three – political realism, biopolitics and human security – within the history and theory of the modernrise of the socialrealm from late eighteenth and nineteenth century Europe. Human security is the further expansion ofsocialforms of governance under capitalism, more specifically a form ofsocialpolitikthanrealpolitikor biopolitics. Drawing on the work of historical sociologist Robert Castel and political theorist Hannah Arendt, the article develops an alternative framework with which to question the extent to which ‘life’ has become the subject of global intervention through the human security agenda.

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