Projects

Early 20th Century Performing Styles in Viola Playing and Chamber Music and the Search for Contemporary Applications

Emlyn Stam

The widespread availability of early-20th-century recordings has revealed to us the rich and changing performance history of the 20th century. The evidence presented to us by historical recordings conflicts with many current day narratives about our own performance practices in Western Art Music. Current performance practice is greatly influenced by the ubiquitous presence of highly-edited digital recordings and structuralist, textual approaches to music.