Historical Performance and New Music

Rebecca Cypess, musicologist and historical keyboardist, is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. Her publications include Women and Musical Salons in the Enlightenment (2022) and Curious and Modern Inventions: Instrumental Music as Discovery in Galileo’s Italy (2016).Estelí Gomez is Assistant Professor of Voice at Lawrence University. Praised for her “clear, bright voice” (New York Times), she is a founding member of the Grammy-award-winning vocal octet Roomful of Teeth and a specialist in both early and new repertoires. Gomez holds degrees from Yale and McGill.Rachael Lansang serves as Assistant Director of Academic Affairs at the Mannes School of Music. She holds a Ph.D. in Musicology from Rutgers University, and her research interests include vocal pedagogy, music and gender studies, and contemporary opera and musical theater.

• List of FiguresList of Music ExamplesList of TablesList of ContributorsIntroductionREBECCA CYPESSPART I: Aesthetics and Media1 Unfixed Media: On the Aesthetics of HIP and Interactive Computer MusicKIMARY FICK AND JASON FICK2 Open-Source Performance Practice: The Laptop as an Instrument of Musical DemocracyDRAKE ANDERSEN3 Minimalism and the Post-War Early Music RevivalLOREN LUDWIG4 Historical Performance and the Ethos of Graphic Notation: Reading Pre-Twentieth-Century Scores through the Lens of an Avant-Garde NotationDAVID HYUN-SU KIM, ELLY TOYODA, AND REBECCA CYPESSPART II: Old Instruments for New Music5 Parallel and Contemporary Vocal Practices: Vibrato, Historically Informed Performance, and New MusicRACHAEL LANSANG AND ERIC RICE6 A Contemporary Lesson from an Ancient Flute: Tradition as a Key to InnovationMATTEO GEMOLO7 The Evolution of Modern Clavichord MusicFRANCIS KNIGHTS8 A Natural Horn Revival in Contemporary Composition and PerformanceJ. DREW STEPHEN9 Technology and/as Community in Molly Herron’s Through Lines (2021)REBECCA CYPESSPART III: Case Studies10 Feeding the Flexible Omnivore: Collaborative Systems in A Far Cry and Roomful of TeethESTELÍ GOMEZ AND SARAH DARLING11 The Early Music Vocality of Cathy BerberianKAILAN R. RUBINOFF12 The Confrontation of Old and New in Lost ObjectsVICTORIA ASCHHEIMBibliography, Audio, and Audio-Visual SourcesIndex

The early music revival and the new music scene have been inspiring each other and cross-pollinating for several decades. Historical Performance and New Music: Aesthetics and Practices presents a groundbreaking and comprehensive exploration of the dynamic relationship between these two domains by bringing together first-hand testimonies from some of the most authoritative, experienced, and original voices in both scholarship and practice. This pioneering work delves into the intertwining threads that connect early and new music, shedding new light on performance practice, instrumentarium, and notation. It is a must-read for composers and performers immersed in both realms, encouraging a reevaluation of the historical context of the early music revival and a broader outlook on contemporary repertoire, to the extent of redefining the boundaries of historical performance.-Alon Schab, author of A Performer's Guide to Transcribing, Editing and Arranging Early Music