Echoes of Tartini

Echoes of Tartini: New Essays in Theory and Practice offers fresh and engaging perspectives on the life, work and transnational impact of the renowned Slovenian-Italian baroque violinist and composer Giuseppe Tartini.

Echoes of Tartini: New Essays in Theory and Practice brings together performers, music theorists and music historians to provide fresh perspectives on Giuseppe Tartini, one of the most important musicians and teachers of the late Baroque period. The book maps Tartini's influence across geographical regionsresonating outwards from Italy to France, Russia, Central Europe and beyondand across time, notably documenting his lasting impact on violin pedagogy and acoustical theory. A somewhat liminal figure, Tartini's music and thought exemplify both Baroque sensibilities and nascent Enlightenment ideals; he lived and worked in one declining empire and in the borderlands of another; and his pedagogical innovations, while rooted in the aesthetics of his time, continue to resonate through the ages. Echoes of Tartini reflects on Giuseppe Tartini's work, the complex world he inhabited and his rich legacy.

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Alexander Carpenter is a musicologist, music critic and musician. He is Professor of Music at the University of Alberta, where he has also served as Director of the Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies. He is the editor of Schoenberg in Context (Cambridge University Press) and author of the forthcoming monographs Arnold Schoenberg: Five Piano Pieces, op. 23 (Routlege) and Critical Lives: Beethoven (Reaktion). Guillaume Tardif is a violinist and Professor of Music at the University of Alberta. In addition to extensive performing and recording activities, he has published articles mainly in the fields of string literature and string pedagogy for Brill, Brepols, Ut Orpheus and other publishers.

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"Echoes of Tartini: New Essays in Theory and Practice" brings together performers, music theorists and music historians to provide fresh perspectives on Giuseppe Tartini, one of the most important musicians and teachers of the late Baroque period. The book maps Tartini's influence across geographical regions-resonating outwards from Italy to France, Russia, Central Europe and beyond-and across time, notably documenting his lasting impact on violin pedagogy and acoustical theory. A somewhat liminal figure, Tartini's music and thought exemplify both Baroque sensibilities and nascent Enlightenment ideals; he lived and worked in one declining empire and in the borderlands of another; and his pedagogical innovations, while rooted in the aesthetics of his time, continue to resonate through the ages. "Echoes of Tartini" reflects on Giuseppe Tartini's work, the complex world he inhabited and his rich legacy.