What is rhetorical music? In The Pathetick Musician, Bruce Haynes and Geoffrey Burgess illustrate the vital place of rhetoric and eloquent expression in the creation and performance of Baroque music. Through engaging explorations of the cantatas of J.S. Bach, the authors explode the conventional notion of historical authenticity in music, proposing adventurous new directions to reinvigorate the performance of early music in the modern setting. Along the way, Haynes and Burgess investigate intersections between music and oratory, dance, gesture, poetry, painting and sculpture, and offer insights into figural elaboration, articulation, nuance and temporality. Aimed primarily at performers of Baroque music, the book situates the study of performance practice in a broader cultural context, and as much as an invaluable resource for advanced study, it contains a wealth of information that pertains directly to anyone working in the field of early music.Based on a draft sketched by celebrated Baroque oboist and early music scholar Bruce Haynes before his death in 2011, The Pathetick Musician is the fruit of the combined wisdom of two musicians renowned equally for their contributions as performers and scholars. Drawing on an impressive array of Classical treatises on oratory, musical autographs and performance accounts, it is an essential companion to Haynes' controversial The End of Early Music. Geoffrey Burgess has taken up the broader claims of Haynes' philosophy to create a practical, accessible text that will be stimulating for all musicians interested in the rediscovery of early music. With copious musical examples, contemporaneous works of art, and a companion website with supplementary audio recordings, The Pathetick Musician is an invaluable resource for all interested in exploring new expressive possibilities in the performance and study of Baroque music.

Foreward: Aus der Tiefe (Geoffrey Burgess)AcknowledgementsList of Musical Examples and FiguresList of Audio ExamplesPreface: Pipe Dreams (Bruce Haynes)Part IIntroduction: The Eloquent Musician (BH)The Truth in EloquenceRhetorical MusicThe Pathetick Musician'Ut pictura poesis'The Officers of RhetoricStyle CoachesFurther ReadingChapter 1: In the Realm fo the Passions (GB)Humanism and the Rhetorical EthosSeconda praticaOf ?sthetics and BeautyAutonomous Music and 'Art for Art's sake'Personally expressing passions or Passionately expressing persons?Further ReadingChapter 2: The Principles of Eloquence: The Artist's Toolbox (GB)The Offices of RhetoricStructuring RhetoricThe Sense of MusicOn the possibility of a FigurenlehreFurther ReadingChapter 3: Bach's Expressive Universe (GB)Imitation: Portraying and Evoking the World'Clear running water': Schweitzer's LegacyFiguring Bach's WorldBach the Poet, Bach the PainterOnomatopoeiaLandscapes and 'Paintings of Life'Further ReadingChapter 4: Bach's Passionate Inner world (GB)General and Particular ExpressionReading Bach's PassionsFear and TremoloAntithesis: At Odds with oneselfPolyphonies of Passions: Passions in PolyphonyThe Proximity of OppositesFurther ReadingPart IIChapter 5: Enhancing Eloquence in Performance (Elocutio) (GB)The 'Intentional Fallacy' Fallacy: Whose Intention?Elocutio: the Essence of Performance Practice'Humouring' the scoreTempo and AffektLight and shadowFurther ReadingChapter 6: Figures: Spinning straw into gold (GB)Public Speaking, Public MusickingDeclamation as Figurative SpeechFigures as Glosses and OrnamentationEssential GracesGraces as GlossesThe Salt of Music: the Spice of DissonanceGraces as Passionate ExpressionStructuring Ornaments: Passaggi and ParaphraseOrnaments in HistoryFurther ReadingChapter 7: The expressive Gesture (GB)Audible architectureArticulating the Musical GestureThe Breath of LifeAgogicsThe Agogic AccentThe Agogic PickupThe Agogic PlacementThe HesitationFinding the Poetry in the NotesPause to ReflectGesture and CharacterGesturing towards the PhraseFurther ReadingChapter 8: Kairos: Expressive Timing (GB)Chronos and Kairos: Two kinds of timeThe metronome and the modern tendency toward ChronosThe beat, or pulse in Baroque Music'The true motion of the Bass'Tempo FluctuationBorrowed timeKairos: Isolating Musical EventsTiming in Dance MusicFurther ReadingChapter 9: To Kindle the Heart: Engagement in Performance (GB)The sovereign AudienceAuthentic EarsMusic in the BodyThe Meaning of Vortrag'The Unutterable Ravishing Soul's Delight'Dance: Une po?sie muetteSincerity in PerformanceMental MultitaskingFurther ReadingChapter 10: Analysing Expression in Recordings of Bach's cantatas (BH)Appendix: Bibliography of the Writings of Bruce HaynesGeneral BibliographyIndex