Historical Performance and New Music

The worlds of new music and historically informed performance might seem quite distant from one another. Yet, upon closer consideration, clear points of convergence emerge. This book addresses the synergies in aesthetics and practices in historical performance and new music.

List of Figures
List of Music Examples
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Introduction
REBECCA CYPESS
PART I: Aesthetics and Media
1 Unfixed Media: On the Aesthetics of HIP and Interactive Computer Music
KIMARY FICK AND JASON FICK
2 Open-Source Performance Practice: The Laptop as an Instrument of Musical Democracy
DRAKE ANDERSEN
3 Minimalism and the Post-War Early Music Revival
LOREN LUDWIG
4 Historical Performance and the Ethos of Graphic Notation: Reading Pre-Twentieth-Century Scores through the Lens of an Avant-Garde Notation
DAVID HYUN-SU KIM, ELLY TOYODA, AND REBECCA CYPESS
PART II: Old Instruments for New Music
5 Parallel and Contemporary Vocal Practices: Vibrato, Historically Informed Performance, and New Music
RACHAEL LANSANG AND ERIC RICE
6 A Contemporary Lesson from an Ancient Flute: Tradition as a Key to Innovation
MATTEO GEMOLO
7 The Evolution of Modern Clavichord Music
FRANCIS KNIGHTS
8 A Natural Horn Revival in Contemporary Composition and Performance
J. DREW STEPHEN
9 Technology and/as Community in Molly Herron's Through Lines (2021)
REBECCA CYPESS
PART III: Case Studies
10 Feeding the Flexible Omnivore: Collaborative Systems in A Far Cry and Roomful of Teeth
ESTELÍ GOMEZ AND SARAH DARLING
11 The Early Music Vocality of Cathy Berberian
KAILAN R. RUBINOFF
12 The Confrontation of Old and New in Lost Objects
VICTORIA ASCHHEIM
Bibliography, Audio, and Audio-Visual Sources
Index