Turning Notes Into Music: An Introduction to Musical Interpretation

by Hans Lampl

Overview

By enabling performers to grasp the fundamentals of interpretation, this work allows them to satisfy the requirements of the music and follow their artistic impulse simultaneously. It outlines the steps that transform a literal rendition ("playing the notes") into a musical and convincing performance. Organized into nine chapters, each focused on a single area of interpretation, Turning Notes into Music presents musicians with a comprehensive, illustrated guide to the interpretative problems that they must address while preparing a piece of music for performance. Bibliography.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780810831650
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	10/17/1996
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	152
Product dimensions:	8.48(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Hans Lampl is Professor of Music Emeritus at California State University-Long Beach.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Preface Part 2 Acknowldgements Part 3 List of Musical Examples Chapter 4 1 INTRODUCTION Chapter 5 2 DYNAMICS Chapter 6 3 BASIC MUSICAL RHETORIC Chapter 7 4 TEMPO Chapter 8 5 ARTICULATION Chapter 9 6 ACCENTS Chapter 10 7 MUSICAL PUNCTUATION; PHRASEOLOGY; FLOW AND MOMENTUM Chapter 11 8 THE STUDY AND TEACHING OF MUSICAL INTERPRETATION Chapter 12 9 IMAGINATION AND THE USE OF IMAGERY Part 13 Selected bibliography Part 14 Index Part 15 About the author

Editorial Reviews

Hans Lampl has produced an important contribution to the literature on interpretation. His always practical advice, free from abstract or dogmatic pronouncements, is clear, intelligible and authoritative, and carries with it that sense of connection to a long and noble tradition. We couldn't ask for more.

College Music Symposium

This book fills a vital gap in pedagogical literature, it focuses on fundamental principles necessary for the proper interpretation of music...it is an invaluable teaching aid to studio teachers and conductors...Dr. Lampl has the ability to express the most complex musical issues in a direct and succinct manner. Turning Notes into Music will be required reading for students in my studio.

Charles H. Aurand

...very well written, beautifully organized, has excellent examples, and covers the entire subject in a concise but thorough way...It is an excellent text...most valuable...for the private music teacher who must discuss these problems but does not always know the best way to express these ideas.

James Miblock

Turning Notes into Music is a most practical and useful guide. It stimulates one's thinking—so that new discoveries are continuously being made.

Jean Kuhns

I found the book excellent in every way: very well written, well organized and very useful while following the classical principle of delighting while instructing.

Menahem Pressler

Hans Lampl has clearly and concisely isolated the various elements of the musical language which any performer has to intimately understand...an illuminating and important study for any developing musician...joining a performer's imagination with a disciplined structural clarity.

Alan Marks

...outlines the steps that transform a literal rendition of a work into a convincing musical performance.

The Instrumentalist

This book fills a vital gap in pedagogical literature, it focuses on fundamental principles necessary for the proper interpretation of music...it is an invaluable teaching aid to studio teachers and conductors...Dr. Lampl has the ability to express the most complex musical issues in a direct and succinct manner. Turning Notes into Music will be required reading for students in my studio.--Charles H. Aurand, Northern Arizona University

Hans Lampl has clearly and concisely isolated the various elements of the musical language which any performer has to intimately understand...an illuminating and important study for any developing musician...joining a performer's imagination with a disciplined structural clarity.--Alan Marks, Hochschule fur Music Hanns Eisler, Berlin

...very well written, beautifully organized, has excellent examples, and covers the entire subject in a concise but thorough way...It is an excellent text...most valuable...for the private music teacher who must discuss these problems but does not always know the best way to express these ideas.--James Miblock, composer, violinist, and conductor

From the Publisher

...outlines the steps that transform a literal rendition of a work into a convincing musical performance.

Instrumentalist