Performance

• Interprets printed symbols in music

• Combination of composer's intention and performer's own feelings ​

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Do any of your favorite performers come to mind? Wh​at do you enjoy about their performance/interpretation?

Performance

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What elements of performance do you find the most interesting?

• ​music created at the same time it is performed

• seen often in jazz and nonwestern ​music

Improvisation

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• ​ornaments or embellishing notes added by the performer

• meant to reflect the performer's individuality ​

Embellishments

• ​special challenges in early repertoire

• it is difficult to find evidence about early performance practice

• musicians use modern instruments to perform this music today ​

Early Music Performance Practice ​

• ​Virtuoso--an artist of extraordinary technical mastery; above and beyond their natural gifts and training

• ​Musicians teach, play in orchestras

• Wages are still very low ​

• leader of a group of musicians

• uses a thin stick called a baton to beat time and indicate pulse and tempo

• other hand brings out dynamics, expression, and cues ​

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What other fields or jobs have "conductors?" ​

Conductors

• the principal first violinist

• sits at the conductor's immediate left

• Play solos, checks bowing indications in music, and tunes orchestra ​

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Concertmaster

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• usually made up of segments combined from several recordings in the studio

• dubbing--the insertion of sounds, which may be live or prerecorded, that then become part of the resulting piece of music

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Where did people listen to music before recorded music?

Recorded Music

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