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Speculum musicae, vol. 58
Of Signs and Sounds
Musical Interpretation and Performance from the 19th to the 21st Century
Rémy Campos, Arthur Macé (eds)
- Pages: approx. 430 p.
- Size:210 x 270 mm
- Illustrations:43 b/w, 54 musical examples
- Language(s):English, French
- Publication Year:2025
- € 145,00 EXCL. VAT RETAIL PRICE
- ISBN: 978-2-503-62179-1
- Hardback
- Forthcoming (Nov/25)
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This volume aims to outline a number of significant trends in historically informed performance studies
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BIO
Rémy Campos is professor of music history at the Conservatoire de Paris and head of research at the Haute école de musique de Genève. His past work has focused on the history of conservatoires (Paris and Geneva) and the historiography of music. His current research is devoted to music performance practice during the 19th and the 20th centuries. His last publication is Debussy à la plage (Gallimard, 2018).
Arthur Macé is a research officer at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he coordinates and promotes the institution’s research output across various disciplines. A member of the SACRe-PSL laboratory and the Georg Simmel Center, his work focuses on 19th- and 20th-century musical institutions and associations.
Summary
Over the last few decades, scholarly literature dedicated to historically informed performance has proliferated. Numerous publications, the creation of specialised collections and dedicated research teams have all contributed to the development of an ever-expanding scientific library. This vast repository of knowledge comprises not just written publications, but also countless recordings and performances, as well flourishing. Paradoxically, as new research methods developed, the terra incognita simultaneously seemed to expand. This volume does not attempt an exhaustive synthesis but instead aims to outline a number of significant trends within the field of historically informed performance studies, as practised in conservatoires and universities. The fifteen texts gathered in this volume can be read both as contributions to specific areas of performance studies as well as methodological proposals inviting cross-disciplinary reflection. The first part of the book, which examines among other topics music engraving, the theory and hermeneutics of the sign, and performers' annotations, puts forward new proposals for the analysis of the musical sign. The second part deals with the growing field of recordings analysis and reenactment, looking at leading artists (e. g. Georges Enesco, Vlado Perlemuter, Sarah Bernhardt or Charles Ives).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Rémy Campos – Arthur Macé, Foreword
Rémy Campos, Historically Informed Performance: An Unsolvable Problem?
1. Renewed Analysis of Signs
David Rowland, Composers, Engravers and Piano Music Texts in the Long Nineteenth Century
Nir Cohen-Shalit, Annotations in Performance Material of 19th-Century German Orchestras
Inès Taillandier-Guittard, L’expression pianistique au défi de la notation: écrire et enseigner l’expression dans le long XIXe siècle
Du Chao, Au bout des doigts: les partitions annotées d’Yvonne Loriod à la Bibliothèque nationale de France
Hector Cornilleau, Décrire et exemplifier les principes d’exécution: vers une théorie du signe musical de l’Empire à la monarchie de Juillet?
2. Reenacting Sounds and Gestures
Massimo Zicari, Reconstructing a Living Tradition: The Early Recordings of Donizetti’s «Lucia di Lammermoor»
Manuel Bärtsch, In search of Cortot’s Beethoven
Julien Szulman, Georges Enesco interprète du «Poème» d’Ernest Chausson
John Kamfonas, The Piano Recordings of Charles Ives: Understanding Instrumental Practice as an Extension of Work Creation
Guillaume Tardif, Directionality & Intentionality: Perspectives on Phrasing in String Playing in the 19th & 20th Centuries
Martin Knust, Re-Enacting Wagner in the 21st Century
Anne Pellois – Tomas Gonzalez, Cinq fois Phèdre: protocoles de réactivations de performances passées à partir d’une partition vocale
Pierre Goy, Apprendre par la copie: une voie d’accès au style ravélien
Inja Stanovic, Historically Informed Recording: Early Recordings Association’s Violin Case-Study
