The Pathetick Musician

Baroque oboists Bruce Haynes and Geoffrey Burgess established reputations as authorities on the history of their instrument with their co-authored book The Oboe, voted an outstanding achievement by the American Music Instrument Society. Haynes' writings, notably The End of Early Music, are known for pioneering new approaches in historical performance practice and inspiring healthy debate among scholars and performers of early music. Burgess, an instructor at the Eastman School of Music, recently published Well-Tempered Woodwinds: Friedrich von Huene and the Making of Early Music in a New World, which combines the biography of a leading manufacturer of historic instruments with a history of the emerging early music scene in America. Bruce Haynes passed away in May, 2011.

Foreward: Aus der Tiefe (Geoffrey Burgess)
Acknowledgements
List of Musical Examples and Figures
List of Audio Examples

Preface: Pipe Dreams (Bruce Haynes)

Part I
Introduction: The Eloquent Musician (BH)
The Truth in Eloquence
Rhetorical Music
The Pathetick Musician
'Ut pictura poesis'
The Officers of Rhetoric
Style Coaches
Further Reading

Chapter 1: In the Realm fo the Passions (GB)
Humanism and the Rhetorical Ethos
Seconda pratica
Of Æsthetics and Beauty
Autonomous Music and 'Art for Art's sake'
Personally expressing passions or Passionately expressing persons?
Further Reading

Chapter 2: The Principles of Eloquence: The Artist's Toolbox (GB)
The Offices of Rhetoric
Structuring Rhetoric
The Sense of Music
On the possibility of a Figurenlehre
Further Reading

Chapter 3: Bach's Expressive Universe (GB)
Imitation: Portraying and Evoking the World
'Clear running water': Schweitzer's Legacy
Figuring Bach's World
Bach the Poet, Bach the Painter
Onomatopoeia
Landscapes and 'Paintings of Life'
Further Reading

Chapter 4: Bach's Passionate Inner world (GB)
General and Particular Expression
Reading Bach's Passions
Fear and Tremolo
Antithesis: At Odds with oneself
Polyphonies of Passions: Passions in Polyphony
The Proximity of Opposites
Further Reading


Part II
Chapter 5: Enhancing Eloquence in Performance (Elocutio) (GB)
The 'Intentional Fallacy' Fallacy: Whose Intention?
Elocutio: the Essence of Performance Practice
'Humouring' the score
Tempo and Affekt
Light and shadow
Further Reading

Chapter 6: Figures: Spinning straw into gold (GB)
Public Speaking, Public Musicking
Declamation as Figurative Speech
Figures as Glosses and Ornamentation
Essential Graces
Graces as Glosses
The Salt of Music: the Spice of Dissonance
Graces as Passionate Expression
Structuring Ornaments: Passaggi and Paraphrase
Ornaments in History
Further Reading

Chapter 7: The expressive Gesture (GB)
Audible architecture
Articulating the Musical Gesture
The Breath of Life
Agogics
The Agogic Accent,
The Agogic Pickup,
The Agogic Placement,
The Hesitation
Finding the Poetry in the Notes
Pause to Reflect
Gesture and Character
Gesturing towards the Phrase
Further Reading

Chapter 8: Kairos: Expressive Timing (GB)
Chronos and Kairos: Two kinds of time
The metronome and the modern tendency toward Chronos
The beat, or pulse in Baroque Music
'The true motion of the Bass'
Tempo Fluctuation
Borrowed time
Kairos: Isolating Musical Events
Timing in Dance Music
Further Reading

Chapter 9: To Kindle the Heart: Engagement in Performance (GB)
The sovereign Audience
Authentic Ears
Music in the Body
The Meaning of Vortrag
'The Unutterable Ravishing Soul's Delight'
Dance: Une poësie muette
Sincerity in Performance
Mental Multitasking
Further Reading

Chapter 10: Analysing Expression in Recordings of Bach's cantatas (BH)

Appendix: Bibliography of the Writings of Bruce Haynes

General Bibliography

Index