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The Mid-Twentieth-Century Concert Pianist

An English Experience

By: Julian Hellaby

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The Mid-Twentieth-Century Concert Pianist

An English Experience

By: Julian Hellaby

In this book, Julian Hellaby presents a detailed study of English piano playing and career management as it was in the middle years of the twentieth century. Making regular comparisons with early twenty-first-century practice, the author examines career-launching mechanisms, such as auditions and competitions, and investigates available means of career sustenance, including artist management, publicity outlets, recital and concerto work, broadcasts, recordings and media reviews. Additionally, Hellaby considers whether a mid-twentieth-century school of English piano playing may be identified and, if so, whether it has lasted into the early decades of the twenty-first century. The author concludes with an appraisal of the state of English pianism in recent years and raises questions about its future. Drawing on extensive research from a wide variety of primary and secondary sources, this book is structured around case-studies of six pianists who were commencing and then developing their careers between approximately 1935 and 1970. The professional lives and playing styles of Malcolm Binns, Peter Katin, Moura Lympany, Denis Matthews, Valerie Tryon and David Wilde are examined, and telling comparisons are made between the state of affairs then and that of more recent times. Engagingly written, the book is likely to appeal to professional and amateur pianists, piano teachers, undergraduate and postgraduate music students, academics and anyone with an interest in the history of pianists, piano performance and music performance history in general.

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445

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Routledge

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1317037448

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Reading Musical Interpretation

Case Studies in Solo Piano Performance

By: Julian Hellaby

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Case Studies in Solo Piano Performance

By: Julian Hellaby

Performance studies in the Western art music tradition have often been dominated by the relationship of theoretical score-analysis to performance, although some recent trends have aimed at dislodging the primacy of the score in favour of assessing performance on its own terms. In this book Julian Hellaby further develops these trends by placing performance firmly at the heart of his investigations and presents a structured approach to analysing the interpretation of a musical work from the perspective of a musically informed listener. To enable analysis of individual interpretations, the author develops a conceptual framework in which a series of performance-related categories is arranged hierarchically into an 'interpretative tower'. Using this framework to analyse the acoustic evidence of a recording, interpretative elements are identified and used to assess the relationship between a performance and a work. The viability of the interpretative tower is tested in three major case studies. Contrasting recorded performances of solo keyboard works by Bach, Messiaen and Brahms are the focus of these studies, and analysis of the performances, using the tower model, uncovers an interpretative rationale. The book is wide-ranging in scope and holistic in approach, offering a means of enhancing a listener's appreciation of an interpretation. It is richly illustrated with examples taken from commercial recordings and from the author's own recordings of the three focal works. Downloadable resources of the latter are included.

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Routledge

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1351552198

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The Mid-twentieth-century Concert Pianist

An English Experience

By: Julian Hellaby

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The Mid-twentieth-century Concert Pianist

An English Experience

By: Julian Hellaby

Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of musical examples -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- PART I Introduction and background -- 1 Introduction -- Rationale and primary method -- Sources and other methods -- Research questions and book plan -- 2 Musical life in mid-twentieth-century England -- The war years -- Post-Second World War -- Summary -- PART II Career development and sustenance -- 3 Getting started in the profession -- Preamble -- Making a debut -- Auditions -- Piano competitions -- Networks -- Summary -- 4 Sustaining a career (1) - management and promotion -- Management -- Publicity and promotion -- Summary -- 5 Sustaining a career (2) - the working pianist -- Engagements -- An international profile -- Broadcasting -- Recording -- Repertoire -- Reviews -- A portfolio career -- Drawing the threads -- PART III Performance practice -- 6 Pedagogical influences -- Mid-twentieth-century pedagogy -- Tone -- 7 In search of an English school of pianism -- Preamble -- Presenting the interpretative analyses -- Nature -- Tonal beauty -- A mid-twentieth-century English school of pianism -- An early twenty-first-century English school of pianism? -- Appearance and Werktreue -- 8 Closing thoughts -- The state of play of early twenty-first-century English pianism -- Bibliography -- Archival collections -- Select discography -- YouTube links -- Index

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147248486X

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Welcome to Everytown

A Journey into the English Mind

By: Julian Baggini

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Welcome to Everytown

A Journey into the English Mind

By: Julian Baggini

This study of an ordinary town in Northern England is “a thoughtful, sympathetic portrait of white working-class life…essential reading” (Guardian). What do the English think? Every country has a dominant set of beliefs and attitudes concerning everything from how to live a good life, how we should organize society, and the roles of the sexes. Yet despite many attempts to define England’s national character, what might be called the nation's philosophy has remained largely unexamined until now. Philosopher Julian Baggini pinpointed postcode S66 on the outskirts of Rotherham as England in microcosm—an area that reflected most accurately the full range of the nation's inhabitants, its most typical mix of urban and rural, old and young, married and single. He then spent six months living there, immersing himself in this typical English Everytown, in order to get to know the mind of a people. It sees the world as full of patterns and order, a view manifest in its enjoyment of gambling. It has a functional, puritanical streak, evident in its notoriously bad cuisine. In the English mind, men should be men and women should be women (but it's not sure what children should be). Sympathetic but critical, serious yet witty, Baggini's account of the English as represented by this particular spot on its map is both a portrait of its people and a personal story about being an alien in your own land. “Baggini turns out to be a sensitive observer who takes people and places on their own terms. He is also good at examining his own prejudices and fears.”—Independent “An insightful and often amusing investigation of what it means to be English.”—London Review of Books

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Granta Publications

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1847089194

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9781847089199

Reading Musical Interpretation

Case Studies in Solo Piano Performance

By: Julian Hellaby

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Case Studies in Solo Piano Performance

By: Julian Hellaby

Performance studies in the Western art music tradition have often been dominated by the relationship of theoretical score-analysis to performance. This book presents a structured approach to analyzing the interpretation of a musical work from the perspective of a musically informed listener.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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0754666670

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The Mid-Twentieth-Century Concert Pianist

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