The twentieth-century revival of early music unfolded in two successive movements rooted respectively in nineteenth-century antiquarianism and in rediscovery of the value of original instruments. The present volume is a collection of insights reflecting the principal concerns of the second of those revivals, focusing on early keyboards, and beginning in the 1950s. The volume and its authors acknowledge Canadian harpsichordist Kenneth Gilbert (b. 1931) as one of this revivals leaders. The content reflects international research on early keyboard music, sources, instruments, theory, editing, and discography. Considerations that echo throughout the book are the problematics of source attributions, progressive institutionalization of early music, historical instruments as agents of artistic change and education, antecedents and networks of the revival seen as a social phenomenon, the impact of historical performance and the quest for understanding style and genre. The chapters cover historical performance practice, source studies, edition, theory and form, and instrument curating and building. Among their authors are prominent figures in performance, music history, editing, instrument building and restoration, and theory, some of whom engaged with the early keyboard revival as it was happening.
1. Four Decades after French Harpsichord Music of the Seventeenth
Century: Newly Discovered Sources Bruce Gustafson
2. The Harpsichord Class at
the Paris Conservatoire: An Administrative History Olivier Baumont
3. The
Organ of the German Church in Stockholm: To Övertorneå and Hietaniemi, and
Back Again Hans-Ola Ericsson and Lena Weman
4. The Saga of the 1753 Organ of
the Cathedral of Quebec: Its Installation, Destruction, and Rebirth Élisabeth
Gallat-Morin
5. The Challenges of Caring for a Playing Collection Mimi S.
Waitzman
6. Hubert Bédard (193389): A Visionary of the Early Keyboard
Movement Rachelle Taylor
7. Some Examples of Transformative Imitation in Late
Seventeenth-Century French Organ Music David Ponsford
8. The Thirteen
Non-Liturgical Fugues ą 4 in 'Le Livre dorgue de Montréal' Walter Kurt
Kreyszig
9. Frescobaldis Contrapuntal "Audacities": Structures, Processes,
and Affetti in Keyboard Fantasia IX Massimiliano Guido
10. Chambonničress
Pieces de claveß in of 1670 and the Preservation of a Performing Style Ronald
Broude
11. The New Frescobaldi Edition Christopher Stembridge
12. The
Soloist, seconda pratica, and the Madrigal as a Template for the New Toccata
Hank Knox and Rachelle Taylor
13. Kenneth Gilberts Recording Legacy Antonio
Lechasseur
Rachelle Taylor leads an international performing career and has recorded several albums of late Renaissance keyboard music. She is Adjunct Professor of Performance at McGill University and a music historian and archivist at Library and Archives Canada. Her research has been published in Belgium, Canada and the United Kingdom. She is co-editor of Networks of Music and Culture in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (2013).
Hank Knox is hailed internationally for his "colorful, kinetic performances" (All Music Guide) which "abound in vitality" (Early Music America), and performs around the globe. He studied harpsichord with Kenneth Gilbert and is a founding member of Montreals Arion Baroque Orchestra. He is professor of harpsichord and continuo at the Schulich School of Music of McGill University. He was awarded the Thomas Binkley prize for an outstanding university collegium director by Early Music America in 2008.
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