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interpretation| In music, the manner in which a performer plays a work. Except in the case of prerecorded electronic music, which excludes the performer altogether, the limitations of notation mean that a composer cannot indicate the most subtle levels of dynamics, expression, articulation, and other details of performance practice. Inevitably the performer is responsible for these, although during some periods it has been the convention for the musician to take greater liberties than during others. For instance, the 18th-century performer had much greater freedom than the 20th-century performer, not only to alter a composer's dynamics and articulation without criticism, but also, to a degree, to change the notes themselves. |
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Amendment, Second
apocalyptic number
Archer, Thomas
Arrau, Claudio
Baker, Chet
Baker, Janet Abbott
Battle, Kathleen Deanne
Berman, Lazar
Böhm, Karl
Brendel, Alfred
| Donington, Robert
enharmonic
Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich
Freud, Sigmund
Gemara
hermeneutics
Jenkins, David Edward
Modjeska, Helena
Perahia, Murray
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| But on the following Friday he was waited upon by the Pillars of the Church, who informed him that in order to be in harmony with the New Theology and get full advantage of modern methods of Gospel interpretation they had deemed it advisable to make a change. It must be confessed that this ingenious interpretation of the dream in the light of newly discovered evidence did not wholly commend itself to the son's more logical mind; he had, for the moment at least, a conviction that it foreshadowed a more simple and immediate, if less tragic, disaster than a visit to the Pacific Coast. He was, after all, but one of a large number of heroes who, throughout the world, devoted their lives to the Revolution; though it must be conceded that he did unusual work, especially in his elaboration and interpretation of working-class philosophy. |