1st Edition
Topics in Musical Interpretation
1. Introduction
Sezi Seskir and David Hyun-Su Kim
Continuing Dialogues
2. The Case of Beethoven: A Tie by Any Other Name...
Malcom Bilson
3. Musical Topoi in Brahms’s 7 Fantasien, Op. 116
Sezi Seskir
4. Should the End of a Phrase be Emphasized? An Essay in Musical Prosody
Martin Küster
Challenging Dialogues
5. What Can Performance and Theory Teach Each Other?
Andrew M. Friedman
6. Beyond the Interpretation of Music
Laurence Dreyfus
Starting New Dialogues
7. Arrangement Practices in the Bach Tradition, Then and Now: Historical Precedent for Modern Practice
Rebecca Cypess
8. Listening to Builders
David Hyun-su Kim
9. Gould and Liberace, or the Fate of Nineteenth-Century Performance Culture
Nicholas Mathew
10. Do They Still Hate Horowitz? The "Last Romantic" Revisited
Kenneth Hamilton
Biography
Sezi Seskir received her first degree in piano in her native, Ankara, Turkey. She continued with her studies in Lübeck Musikhochschule and then completed a DMA degree with Malcolm Bilson at Cornell University, Ithaca, USA. She is currently Associate Professor of Music at Bucknell University, USA.
David Hyun-su Kim is concert pianist specializing in historical performance. He holds degrees in music from Cornell, Yale, and Harvard Universities, as well as a Doctorate from the New England Conservatory. www.davidkimpiano.com
