Performing by the Book?

Bruno Forment is the principal investigator of the ‘Resounding Libraries’ research cluster at Orpheus Instituut and the Leader of the ‘Performances’ Working Group in the European COST Action EarlyMuse.Bruno Forment is hoofdonderzoeker aan het Orpheus Instituut in Gent. Hij publiceerde talrijke boeken en essays over 18e-eeuwse opera, scenografie en artistiek onderzoek. Daarnaast is hij actief als musicus en als erfgoedspecialist.

• Introduction. Musical Texts and Contexts: Stairway to Heaven or Highway to Hell?Bruno FormentMind the Gap: Reimagining Incomplete Medieval MusicNiels BerentsenPerforming by the Book (Next to the Book You Were Looking For), or: Aby Warburg’s “Good Neighbour”Björn SchmelzerPluralising the Musical Text: Improvising on Canonic RepertoireJonathan AyerstÀ la recherche du chant perdu: The airs sérieux in the Recueils d’airs sérieux et à boire de différents auteurs (1695–99) as a Lens on Vocal Practices in the Seventeenth-Century Parisian SalonElizabeth DobbinFrom Beethoven Performance to Beethoven Interpretation: Carl Czerny and Franz Liszt’s Evolving Relationship, 1822–57Camilla KöhnkenNineteenth-Century Texts in the Twenty-First CenturyGeorge KennawayThe Flexible Text: Published and Unpublished Alterations to the Schumann Cello Concerto in the Nineteenth CenturyKate Bennett WadsworthThe Romantic Conductor-Scholar: What I Learned from the ArchivesNir Cohen-ShalitRelocating Ravel’s “Sad Birds” in Alternative Forests of Place and TimeXiangning LinThe Virgin Act: Mediating Supplement and Repetition in PerformanceClare LesserOnline materialsNotes on ContributorsIndex

“Performers involved with HIP will find this collection of essays invaluable. Musicologists will also find much to ponder, and the relatively straightforward written style of almost all the contributions will appeal to a wide readership of concertgoers, especially those with an interest in historical performance.” - John Potter, singer and author