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Title: Casals and the Art of Interpretation by David Blum, Anthony Hopkins, Paul Tortelier ISBN: 0-520-04032-5 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: November, 1980 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Fascinating study of the music, interpretation, imagination
Comment: I love this book.
As a study of the mind of a top-notch musician, the writer has done a superb job of capturing an intimate portrait of how Casals thought about music, and the production of musical performance. Through a series of well-organised chapters, the reader feels as if he/she is undergoing a masterclass with Casals: diminuendo, stress, meter, mythology, feeling . . . by revealing Casals as a philosopher of orchestration, this book shows the microscope of Casals mind when viewing a score. We benefit from his incomparable insights, spoken off like night-time chat, and we learn from his conductor's sensibilities, like we're sitting in the string section in front of him.
This book is invaluable to musicians--of an instrument--composers, conductors, and amateur enthusiasts such as myself who'd like to experience the workings of a keen sense and ear in a genius like Casals.
This book, like few others, have deeply enriched my understanding of music--as a thing of time, shape, and expression.
Rating: 5
Summary: a MUST- READ for Musicians!
Comment: From Blum's first discussion of the "First Principle" through his Casals-inspired revelations about melodic shape, dynamics, and rhythm, this book is invaluable as a guide for true artistic expression. The line between music as a set of performance skills and as an interpretive art is clearly drawn, and the spirit of Casals beckons all of us who would be truly inspired musicians
Rating: 5
Summary: An approachable text on interpetation from a master musician
Comment: David Blum writes an insightful and rewarding text based on notes taken from rehearsals, master classes, and personal conversations with Pablo Casals. According to Blum, the idea for the book came from Antony Hopkins who encouraged him to take his notes and memories and document them so that other musicians could benefit from Casals' musicianship. The book provides a study of the "laws of music" or "laws of nature" which Casals considered to be the essential elements of meaningful interpretation. The text serves as a guide to musicians, conductors, and music educators on the art of music making.
Most musicians know of Casals the cellist. Unknown to many, his conducting career spans a period of over sixty-five years. During his career as a conductor, rehearsals clearly revealed his ideas about music interpretation. The text records the oral statements and the aural interpretations made by Casals during his rehearsals.
Five chapters divide the text with each chapter representing the main areas of Casals' interpretive ideas. The last chapter serves as an application of the elements of interpretation combined to produce a performance. Every chapter includes printed music excepts, detailed notations of performance practice, insightful commentary from the author, and compelling statements made by Casals during the rehearsal of a particular passage. Topic areas covered in the chapters include The First Principal, Finding the Design, Diction for Instrumentalists, Perceiving Time Relationships, Insights for String Players, Casals and Bach, and A Casals Rehearsal: the Pastoral Symphony.
A unique aspect of Blum's book, the reader is encouraged to study and become involved in every music example. The music examples are excerpts from his performances on the cello, lessons with cello students, and rehearsals with the orchestra. Transposed to the key of C for easy reading, all excerpts are in treble or bass clefs. They have notated phrases, articulations, dynamic nuances, and other stylistic attributes illustrating the points of Casals' concepts. Blum tastefully adds Casals' vocal statements to enhance the music examples, "Casals cried out, Here is the anguish! - Let it sing at the top of the phrase!"
David Blum's book is well written and informative. The music examples with Casals' statements allow the reader to easily and quickly gasp the details of interpretation. This scholarly book with practical applications and insights is invaluable.
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Title: Note Grouping by James Morgan Thurmond ISBN: 0942782003 Publisher: Hal Leonard Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Just Play Naturally by Vivien Mackie, Joe Armstrong ISBN: 0971700400 Publisher: Duende Editions Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Cambridge Companion to the Cello by Robin Stowell ISBN: 0521629284 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 28 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Musical Form and Musical Performance by Edward T. Cone ISBN: 0393097676 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: June, 1968 List Price(USD): $15.65 |
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Title: Never Too Late: My Musical Life Story by John Caldwell Holt ISBN: 0201567636 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: September, 1991 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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