florida state university college of music performance practice

TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Tables ix
List of Figures xi
Abstract xiii
1. INTRODUCTION: PURPOSES AND PROCEDURES 1
Purpose of Study 1
A defense for studying performances 2
What is performance practice? 3
What is performance analysis? 3
A rationale of using recordings to document performance 4
Listening methodology 5
St. John Passion as a case study 6
2. THE HISTORICALLY INFORMED MOVEMENT 8
What is early music? 8
Antecedents of the Historically Informed Movement 8
Early Music - The Denouement of the Nineteenth Century 9
Early Music - The Dawn of the Twentieth Century 11
Early Music – The Middle of the Twentieth Century 19
Authenticity 22
Towards the Millennium - The Institulization of Early Music 25
Trends and currents in a new Millennium 27
3. CURRENT BACH INTERPRETATION 30
The Nineteenth Century – Achievements in Bach scholarship 30
The Dawn of the Twentieth Century – Bach scholarship 34
Modern Bach Research 35
Bach in the Twenty-First Century 41
4. ORIGINS AND VERSIONS OF THE ST. JOHN PASSION 47
Origins of the Passion Genre 47
Reconstructing the multiple versions of the St. John Passion 49
Version 1 – 1724 51
Version 2 – 1725 52
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