Steve Goss: Unequal Music - The Long and Short of it

Join us today with our dear friend Prof. Steve Goss to talk abou the concept of Inegalité in Music! Professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London and professor of Composition in the department of Music and Media at the University of Surrey!

We aim to explore the question whether we are treating notation too literally, I'm sure this will be an eye-opening talk for everybody who is looking for the next level of their music performance!

What do you think? What differentiates the musical notation from the interpretation? What is a musician allowed to do?

Join us for to have your questions answered by Steve!

A discussion of notes inégales, dotted rhythms, triplets, synchronisation, and other deceptive rhythmic notation in 18th and 19th century music. Are we treating notation too literarily? Do modern day performers fully appreciate the notation conventions of previous eras?

In this livestream, I shall be referring to the work of Clive Brown, Colin Booth and other scholars. Examples will be drawn from the piano and guitar repertoires from Bach and Scarlatti, through Schubert, Sor, Mertz, Chopin, and Brahms to Tarrega, Llobet, and Albéniz.