Costa, Neal Peres da - Off the Record

In Off the Record, author and pianist Neal Peres Da Costa explores Romantic-era performance practices through a range of early sound recordings--acoustic, piano roll and electric--that capture a generation of highly-esteemed pianists trained as far back as the mid-nineteenth-century.

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CONTENTS

Contents
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1 Early Recordings: Their Value as Evidence
Chapter 2 Playing One Hand After The Other - Dislocation
Chapter 3 Unnotated Arpeggiation
Chapter 4 Metrical Rubato and Other Forms of Rhythmic Alteration
Chapter 5 Tempo Modification
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Discography
Index