Sign and Expression in Performing Stravinsky's Neoclassical Works
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Notation, Expression, Performance, Stravinsky, NeoclassicismAbstract
The signs and expressions on the sheet music are the pivotal point of communication between the composer’s idea of the musical work and the musician’s interpretation. Performing Stravinsky’s neoclassical works is challenging because he gives guidance through various media and on several intellectual levels through his books, scores, and recordings. In a multi-layered communication model, the differences and discrepancies between his writings, the vocabulary of articulation in his published scores, and his interpretations of his music on recordings will be analysed. In performing his neoclassical works, it is necessary to bear in mind the subjective and intersubjective approach to interpretation in the way Stravinsky demonstrates in his recordings and especially in the vocabulary of articulation signs in neoclassical works.
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