GG: Bazzana's Diss citation

[Mary Jo Watts <mwatts@rci.rutgers.edu>]

If anyone's interested, here's the Dissertation Abstracts International 
citation for KB's PhD thesis on GG which he's just recently published 
as a book.

-MJ

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Accession Number
  ADG9722862
Author
  Bazzana, Kevin John.
Title
  GLENN GOULD: A STUDY IN PERFORMANCE PRACTICE (PIANO).
Institution
  Thesis (PH.D.)--UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY.  1996. 400p.
Source
  Dissertation Abstracts International.  Volume: 58-02, Section: A,
page:
  0333.
Subject Headings
  Music.  Biography.  Canadian Studies.
Abstract
  This dissertation is a comprehensive study of the Canadian pianist,
  broadcaster, writer, and composer Glenn Gould (1932-1982).  While
focused
  primarily on his performances, it also situates his work and thought
more
  broadly within relevant musical, cultural, intellectual, and
historical
  contexts.

  Following an Introduction that summarizes Gould's career and the
  posthumous interest in him, the dissertation divides into two parts. 
Part
  One, "Premises," focuses on the intellectual and aesthetic ideas that
  informed Gould's performances, and draws on literature in music
  aesthetics, the history of performance practice, music analysis, and
other
  fields.  The three large chapters of Part One include a wide range of
  topics: Gould's idealism and his views on the musical work and score;
his
  musical tastes and repertoire; his views on the creative role of the
  performer; the analytical and critical commentaries embodied in his
  performances; and his approach to performance in the contexts of
  Romanticism, modernism, neo-Classicism, post-structuralism, the
historical
  performance movement, twentieth-century theatrical practice, and
cultural
  currents in the 1950s and 1960s.

  Part Two, "Practices," focuses in detail on Gould the performer,
  illuminating important features of his style through prose description
and
  analysis as well as graphic musical examples.  It is divided into
seven
  chapters that focus on various specific aspects of Gould's performance
  practices: counterpoint, rhythm, dynamics, ornamentation, articulation
and
  phrasing, the piano, and recording technology.  A Conclusion serves in
  part as a summary of previous findings, but also discusses how, in
light
  of these findings, Gould's work as a performer might ultimately be
  assessed.
Advisor
  Taruskin, Richard.