The musical dialogue: Thoughts on Monteverdi, Bach and Mozart

Arts & Photography

Harnoncourt, Nikolaus

Music

Amadeus Press

"Like every art form, music is linked to a particular time; it is the living expression of its own period and can be completely understood only by its contemporaries. Our 'understanding' of old music allows us only a glimpse of the spirit in which it is rooted. We see that music always reflects the spiritual and intellectual climate of its time. Its content can never surpass the human power of expression, and any gain on one side must be compensated by a corresponding loss on the other." In these essays, Nikolaus Harnoncourt summarizes his views arising from years devoted to the performance of early music. The problem of interpreting historical music is particularly critical in our age, when modern music has little appeal for the listening public. The vacuum left by the absence of a truly living contemporary music is therefore filled by older music. But for performers and audiences to understand music of earlier times, they must learn to comprehend the languages and messages of the past.

Baroque Music Today: Music As Speech : Ways to a New Understanding of Music (English and German Edition)

Amadeus Pr

These lectures, talks, and essays focus on three major composers of the 17th and 18th centuries.

The Musical Dialogue: Thoughts on Monteverdi, Bach and Mozart

Hal Leonard

For performers and audiences to understand music of earlier times, they must learn to comprehend the languages and messages of the past. In these essays, Nikolaus Harnoncourt summarizes his views arising from years devoted to the performance of early music, discussing some of the problems of historical interpretation. His objective is to use our knowledge of historical performance practice to arrive at a modern interpretation of the masterworks of the past. In this way today's performer and listener may discover the full spectrum of what musical speech was intended to communicate.

Baroque Music Today: Music As Speech : Ways to a New Understanding of Music

Le discours musical: Pour une nouvelle conception de la musique

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Gallimard]

Musik als Klangrede: Wege zu einem neuen Musikverständnis. Essays und Vorträge

Baerenreiter-Verlag

El diálogo musical entre cada una de las voces de la orquesta, así como el diálogo imaginario entre la música y el oyente, conforman el punto central de las consideraciones de Nikolaus Harnoncourt sobre la cuestión musical desde que identificó este diálogo _que abrió nuevos horizontes a sus propios criterios interpretativos_ como medio esencial de expresión para los compositores entre finales del siglo XVI y del XIX. En un extenso análisis de las grandes obras de Monteverdi y Bach, nos muestra cómo ese diálogo musical puede volver a expresarse hoy en la ejecución musical. Harnoncourt rinde cuentas de cómo en sus audiciones intenta conseguir, mediante la música, la transformación intelectual del oyente pretendida por el compositor. En la parte correspondiente a Mozart, el músico y estudioso demuestra con importantes ejemplos que la música de éste, en esencia siempre dramática y caracterizada por fuertes contrastes anímicos, adolece de una interpretación errónea a causa de versiones carentes de contrastes sonoros y dominadas por un sentido erróneo del equilibrio.

El diálogo musical: Reflexiones sobre Monteverdi, Bach y Mozart (Paidos De Musica/ Paidos of Music) (Spanish Edition)

Ediciones Paidós

La música como discurso sonoro (Spanish Edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Acantilado

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