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- Evolving instrumentalist: a continuous trajectoryPublication . Travasso, Rui; Gomes, José AlbertoThis article proposes to identify the key milestones that influenced the instrumentalist performance, throughout the twentieth century until nowadays. In a certain moment of the western music history, excluding henceforth unwritten instrumental music, the instrumentalist needed to incorporate elements related with other arts and/or others disparate fields, which in some way come together on the performance, beyond the enlargement of his functions and instrumental musical techniques. This evolution has broken away from the traditional performance – the act of the musician taking the stage to reproduce a musical text – creating new multidisciplinary demands on performers. These new features became a requirement for the interpreters, as well as a source of creativity for composers and creators. As a consequence, the technical mastery of instruments and of musical theory, became insufficient due to the enlarged scope requirements of certain concepts and artistic creations.
- Major events that changed the instrumentalists’ performancePublication . Travasso, Rui; Veiga, Pedro Alves da; Gomes, José AlbertoThis article proposes to identify aesthetic currents and key events that affected music instrumentalists over the last 100 years - approximately - as well as to characterize new outcomes in music performance. The aesthetical, technical, and compositional evolution of music influenced and changed the traditional conception of the performance – that of a musician taking to the stage using only his instrument, performing an interpretation of a musical score, in a unidirectional relationship with the audience – to a multidisciplinary concept. This generalised evolution, brought new demands to the instrumentalists, who had to adapt and improve, practically autonomously. The increase of multidisciplinarity, fostered creativity, which in turn gave rise to new techniques, both in interpretation and in musical writing. In order to focus the article, it will be centred on traditional musical instruments players, and excludes instrumental music of oral and/or improvised tradition, as well as vocal interpreters.
- New aspects regarding the instrumentalists' performancePublication . Travasso, Rui; Veiga, Pedro Alves da; Gomes, José AlbertoThis article proposes to identify the aesthetic currents and key events that influenced music instrumentalists over the last century, as well as to characterize new outcomes in music performance. The aesthetical, technical, and compositional evolution of music impacted and changed the traditional conception of the performance – that of a musician taking to the stage using only his instrument in order to deliver a rendition of a music score – to a multidisciplinary concept. This new concept brought new demands to the instrumentalists, who had to adapt and improve without guidance or tuition. But it also introduced a source of creativity, fostering new techniques both in music interpretation and in writing. This analysis will focus on traditional musical instruments players and excludes instrumental music of oral tradition and/or improvisation, as well as vocal interpreters.