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Carnal Musicology in a New Edition of Luigi Boccherini’s ​Cello Concerto in D major G. 478

Johnson, Samuel Converse
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1587821737858238

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2020, Doctor of Musical Arts, Ohio State University, Music.
The music of Luigi Boccherini has experienced a slow and steady revival over the last half century, yet few of his twelve cello concertos are widely published. This document presents a newly engraved edition of Boccherini’s ​Cello Concerto in D major G. 478,​ including solo parts and full score. I use carnal musicology to support a historically informed editorship of the cello part. In doing so I critique the anachronistic ways in which Boccherini’s music has been edited and published, particularly by Friedrich Grützmacher in his late 19th century Boccherini concerto mash-up. Grützmacher’s widely accepted version compromises the techniques that would have been implicit in Boccherini’s music, such that these inventions are lost in modern cello pedagogy and performance. My approach offers a new way of teaching and historicizing music that is faithful to Boccherini and caring toward the cello playing body. This project provides resources for the well-being of musicians and their bodies through a musicology that re-centers practice as community rather than isolation. The primary historical contributions I make to what we know of Boccherini are embodied and transcribed into the performance edition itself. This carnal musicology serves as the connective framework between history and embodied feeling, such that musicians and students can feel both the music and the history. The practice guide develops an analytical teaching methodology toward mastery of Boccherini’s unique musical style and technical inventions. The ​Concerto G. 478 s​ erves as a case study by which I teach historical performance using contemporary research methodologies of formal and harmonic analysis, topic theory, and carnal musicology. I offer insight for feeling, interpreting, and translating these components of text and history through the sound of the cello. I invent practice strategies that engage the student in technical and musical inquiries of the ​Concerto​ that allow them to take ownership of their performance. Finally, the score portion of the document prints a new edition of Luigi Boccherini’s ​Concerto in D major G. 478,​ including the full orchestra score, a performance edition of the solo cello part with original cadenzas by the editor, and a clean copy of the solo part.
Mark Rudoff, Prof. (Advisor)
Kristina MacMullen, Dr. (Committee Member)
Juliet White-Smith, Dr. (Committee Member)
David Clampitt, Dr. (Committee Member)
243 p.
Music
Luigi Boccherini; cello; Concerto in D major; G 478; score; performance edition; editing; publishing; transcription; Friedrich Grutzmacher; Elisabeth LeGuin; carnal musicology; historical performance; pedagogy; analysis; practice; topic theory;

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  • Johnson, S. C. (2020). Carnal Musicology in a New Edition of Luigi Boccherini’s ​Cello Concerto in D major G. 478 [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1587821737858238

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Johnson, Samuel. Carnal Musicology in a New Edition of Luigi Boccherini’s ​Cello Concerto in D major G. 478. 2020. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1587821737858238.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Johnson, Samuel. "Carnal Musicology in a New Edition of Luigi Boccherini’s ​Cello Concerto in D major G. 478." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1587821737858238

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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