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Performance Practice on Record
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| Essential overviews: | |
| Timothy Day, A Century
of Recorded Music: Listening to Musical History
(Yale University Press, 2000) Fine survey of the historical and musical evidence |
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| Robert Philip, Performing Music in the Age of
Recording (Yale University Press, 2004) Practical discussion of many of the major questions |
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| Daniel Leech-Wilkinson, The Changing Sound of Music: Approaches to Studying Recorded Musical Performances (CHARM, 2009) | |
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Recording (ideas): |
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| ed. Amanda Bayley, Recorded Music: Performance, Culture and Technology (Cambridge, 2010) | |
| Michael Chanan, Repeated Takes: a short history of recording and its effects on music (London, 1995) | |
| ed. Mine Dogantan-Dack, Recorded Music: Philosophical and Critical Reflections (Middlesex University Press, 2008) | |
| Evan Eisenberg, The Recording Angel (rev. ed., New Haven, 2005) Readable and thought-provoking |
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| Theodore Gracyk, 'Listening to Music: performances and recordings', Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 55 (1997) 139-50 | |
| Mark Katz, Capturing Sound: how technology has changed music (University
of California Press, 2004) See especially the chapter on violin vibrato |
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| Recording (history): | |
| Roger Beardsley and Daniel Leech-Wilkinson, Brief
History of Recording (CHARM, 2006) Clear online introduction with pictures and sound examples |
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| Roland Gelatt, The Fabulous Phonograph (London 1956)
ML 1090 G28 Still widely available second-hand in later revised editions |
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| Oliver Read and Walter Welch, From Tin-Foil to Stereo (1976, rev. 1994) ML1055 WEL | |
| Peter Copeland, Sound Recordings (British Library, 1991) ML1055
COP Excellent brief introduction |
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| John Harvith & Susan Edwards Harvith, Edison, Musicians, and the
Phonograph: a century in retrospect (Westport, 1987) Interviews with performers discussing their experiences of recording |
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| Joe Batten's Book: the story of sound recording (London 1956) Early chapters include first-hand stories of early recording sessions |
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| Fred W Gaisberg, Music on Record (London, 1946; also pub. as The
Music Goes Round (New York, 1943)) Entertaining (though not entirely trustworthy) primary source for early Gramophone Company recording |
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| Online Phonograph Gallery | |
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Performance style: |
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| ed. Michael Musgrave & Bernard D Sherman, Performing Brahms: Early evidence of performance style (Cambridge, 2003) Packed with fascinating material and relevant to more than just Brahms | |
| Robert Philip, Early Recordings and Musical Style (Cambridge, 1992) ML457. After the Day, the next most essential reading. | |
| David Milsom, Theory and Practice in Late Nineteenth-Century Violin Performance (Aldershot, 2003) Argues backwards from early recordings | |
| Dorottya Fabian, Bach Performance Practice, 1945-1975: a comprehensive review of sound recordings and literature (Ashgate, 2003) | |
| Daniel Leech-Wilkinson, 'Using recordings to study musical performance', in Aural History: Essays on Recorded Sound (The British Library, 2001) 1-12 | |
| Daniel Leech-Wilkinson, 'Portamento and musical meaning', Journal of Musicological Research 25 (2006) 233-61 | |
| Daniel Leech-Wilkinson, 'Sound and meaning in recordings of Schubert's "Die junge Nonne"', Musicae Scientiae (2007) 209-36 | |
| Daniel Leech-Wilkinson, 'Recordings and histories of performance style', in ed. Nicholas Cook et al., The Cambridge Companion to Recorded Music (Cambridge University Press, 2009), 246-62 | |
| 'Listening and responding to the evidence of early twentieth-century performance', Journal of the Royal Musical Association 135 (2010) Special Issue no. 1, 45-62 | |
| Michael Scott, The Record of Singing (2 vols., London, 1977-9) Senate House: fol. 789.9 [Scott] | |
| John Steane, Singers of the Century (London, 1966) | |
| Performance analysis: | |
| Nicholas Cook, 'Methods for Analysing Recordings', in ed Cook et al, The Cambridge Companion to Recorded Music (Cambridge, 2009), 221-45 | |
| Daniel Leech-Wilkinson, The Changing Sound of Music (see above), esp. ch. 8. | |
| Daniel Leech-Wilkinson, ‘Performance Style in Elena Gerhardt’s Schubert Song Recordings’, Musicae Scientiae 14, (2010), 57-84, (2010), 57-84 | |
| 'Analysing Recordings' pages of the CHARM website. | |