Hamilton, Kenneth
is a concert pianist and a member of the music
department of the University of Birmingham, UK
Print publication date: 2007 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2008
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-517826-5
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195178265.003.0003
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2008
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-517826-5
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195178265.003.0003
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With Due Respect
This chapter traces the changing concert etiquette, affecting both performers and audiences, from the 19th- to the 20th-centuries. Particular topics discussed are fluctuating fashions in applause, in audience reaction, in the requirement for memorization, and in the attitude to inaccuracies and wrong notes.
Keywords: concert-etiquette, applause, memorization, inaccuracy, wrong notes
Keywords: concert-etiquette, applause, memorization, inaccuracy, wrong notes
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195178265.003.0003
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