The Weapons of Rhetoric: a Guide for Musicians and Audiences

Judy Tarling

ISBN 10: 0952822032 / ISBN 13: 9780952822035

Published by Corda Music, 2004

About this Item

Following the success of Baroque String Playing 'for ingenious learners' Judy Tarling's second book strikes at the heart of musical performance with a study of the relationship between music and rhetoric, which was much remarked upon during the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Using the works of the classical rhetoricians Cicero and Quintilian as a framework for the book, their ideas are traced through the Tudor classroom and popular Renaissance eloquence books into the late eighteenth century. Concentrating on performance techniques that aid the communication of musical ideas to an audience, historical source material is used to demonstrate how to hold the attention of the listener and at the same time move and delight him, as in the classical oration. Quotations from the rhetoric manuals, Shakespeare and the Bible are complemented by over one hundred musical examples, drawn mainly from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, which illustrate the connection between speaking and playing in the rhetorical style.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Weapons of Rhetoric: a Guide for Musicians and Audiences
• Publisher: Corda Music
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0952822032
• ISBN 13: 9780952822035
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Ethnomusicology