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标题：Awakening the sleeping beauty: Estonian 1939 recordings
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作者：Kadri Steinbach,Morten,Hein
期刊名称：Journal of Interdisciplinary Music Studies
印刷版ISSN：1307-0401
电子版ISSN：1306-9055
出版年度：2008
卷号：2
期号：1-2
出版社：Journal of Interdisciplinary Music Studies
摘要：Background in music history. The study of historical recordings has recently gained more attention among musicologists and investigations have approached these from different points of view. This field of research is comparatively new from the perspective of music historians, because the recordings of art music belong only to the 20th century as the sound recording does not go further back in the history. Historical recordings are a new group of sources that enable us to directly study the qualities of sound and live performance that traditional musicology has investigated using secondary sources like reviews and memoirs. Background in sound technology. Information science can provide a musicologist with helpful tools for doing research. In our case that means discographic knowledge and knowledge concerning sound archives. In addition, studying old recordings often includes technological tasks – transfer, restoration, and evaluation of the recordings. In specific cases, a very special technology has been used to transfer the music from 78-rpm discs into digital form – the bipointed stylus – to play back father matrices. Aims. The present study focuses on a set of recordings made in 1939, when the Estonian government, together with the State Broadcasting Company, launched a program of recording Estonian music and invited the Danish branch of EMI with their technical equipment to Tallinn. Asking questions about the selection of music and the aesthetics of performance, we try to describe the musical scene of the 1930s. Main contribution. The main contribution of our research will be collecting together the material and making it available for musicological research. This task also includes the historical description and evaluation of the music and the performers, discussing the representativeness of the selection – i.e. contributions to Estonian music history writings as well as discographic resources. Implications. Studying this set of recordings from 1939 helps us to understand the formation and the reception of the canon of Estonian music, as well as illustrating the continuity of performance traditions in Estonian art and entertainment music. This study shows how technology can be used as an effective tool for the music historian.
关键词：Music history, recordings, performance history, Estonia, vocal music, choral music, sound restoration, digitized sound