Professor Richard Taruskin (University of California, Berkeley) delivers the keynote address at the Performers Voice Symposium 2009. Professor Taruskin discusses the current state of performance studies research.
This is an edited version of Professor Taruskin’s presentation. The full transcript of Richard Taruskin’s Keynote Address will appear in: Anne Marshman (ed.), Performers’ Voices Across Centuries and Cultures (London: Imperial College Press, forthcoming 2011).
Musical excerpts in Professor Taruskin’s presentation are taken from the following recordings with the kind permission of EMI and Dr Kenneth Cooper:
Bach, J. S. (2003) Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major [Recorded by the Wiener Philharmoniker & Wilhelm Furtwangler]. On Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 / Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 & 5 [CD]. London: EMI Music.
Bach, J. S. (1998) Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major [Recorded by Dr Kenneth Cooper and the Berkshire Bach Ensemble]. On The Six Brandenburg Concerti – A New Years Tradition [CD, Out of Print]. Berkshire: Berkshire Bach Society.
Adorno, T.W. “Bach gegen seine Liebhaver verteidigt,”, Gesammelte Schriften, vol. 10
Berry, Mark “Romantic Modernism: Bach, Furtwängler, and Adorno,” New German Critique, XXXV (2008)
Bowen, Jose “Can a Symphony Change? Establishing Methodology for the Historical Study of Performance Styles”, Bericht über den Internationaler Kongreß der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung: Musik als Text Freiburg im Breisgau 1993 (2 vols. Kassel, Basel, London & New York: Bärenreiter, 1998)
Clymer, Adam “An Appreciation: The Man Who Made Polling What it is,” New York Times, July 28, 1984
Cook, Nicholas and Everist, Mark Rethinking Music (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999)
Furtwängler, Wilhelm “über Bach und die Interpretation alter Musik überhaupt,” in Aufzeichnungen, 1924-1954, ed. Elisabeth Furtwängler and Günter Birkner (Wiesbaden: Brockhaus, 1980)
Ingarden, Roman The Work of Music and the Problem of Its Identity, trans. Adam Czerniawski, ed. Jean G. Harrel (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1986)
Johnson, James Listening in Paris (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1995)
Kerman, Joseph Contemplating Music: Challenges to Musicology (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985)
Quinney, Robert “Period Polemics” (review of Bruce Haynes, The End of Early Music), Early Music, XXXVI (2008)
Rachmaninov, S.V. Literaturynoye naslediye, vol. 2 (Moscow: Sovetskiy kompozitor, 1980)
Redlich, Hans F. Claudio Monteverdi (London: Oxford University Press, 1952)
Taruskin, Richard “The Modern Sound of Early Music,” Text and Act (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995)
Riley, Matthew Musical Listening in the German Enlightenment: Attention, Wonder and Astonishment (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004)
Walls, Peter “Historical Performance and the Modern Performer,” in John Rink, ed., Musical Performance: A Guide to Understanding (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002)
Audio Examples
Bach, J. S. (2003) Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major [Recorded by the Wiener Philharmoniker & Wilhelm Furtwangler]. On Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 / Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 & 5 [CD]. London: EMI Music.
Bach, J. S. (1998) Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major [Recorded by Dr Kenneth Cooper and the Berkshire Bach Ensemble]. On The Six Brandenburg Concerti – A New Years Tradition [CD, Out of Print]. Berkshire: Berkshire Bach Society.
