Una base empírica para la historia de la interpretación musical: Segovia y Bream en la segunda mitad del siglo XX

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Ana Llorens

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La historiografía de la interpretación musical ha tendido a presentar a Andrés Segovia y Julian Bream como figuras opuestas, en su forma tanto de tocar la guitarra como de concebir su repertorio. En esta tarea se ha limitado a reproducir apreciaciones que obvian el sonido de estos dos músicos. De hecho, no sorprende que las grabaciones que ambos hicieron de la Fantasía para un gentilhombre de Joaquín Rodrigo –de 1958 y 1987 respectivamente– sean testimonio de una realidad muy diferente a la escrita. A pesar de exagerar las diferencias entre las duraciones de las notas de algunos motivos, las técnicas agógicas de Segovia parecen responder a una sensibilidad fraseológica, métrica y armónica obviada en la literatura. Por su parte, Bream, que se vuelve más irregular en los pasajes de figuración constante, parece adoptar algunas técnicas de la interpretación históricamente informada. A través del análisis de tempo y duraciones –de pulsos y notas–, este estudio de caso demuestra que un resultado sonoro concreto puede deberse a una compleja red de motivaciones e influencias. En última instancia, este trabajo ejemplifica la necesidad del análisis empírico de la interpretación musical para poder detectar y comprender unos matices que, de otra forma, quedarían silenciados.


Palabras clave: análisis de la interpretación, micro-agógica, rubato, interpretación históricamente informada, Andrés Segovia, Julian Bream, Joaquín Rodrigo


Empirical foundations for the history of music performance: Segovia and Bream in the 2nd half of the 20th century


Abstract

The historiography of musical interpretation has usually presented Andres Segovia and Julian Bream as opposed figures, as regards both their performance styles and their conceptions of the repertoire for the guitar. To that aim it has simply reproduced descriptions that overlook these musicians’ sounds. In fact, it is no surprise that their recordings of Joaquín Rodrigo’s Fantasía para un gentilhombre⁠—respectively from 1958 and 1987—bear witness to a different reality. Despite his exaggeration of the durational differences between the note values in some motifs, Segovia’s agogic resources appear to respond to phraseological, metric, and harmonic preoccupations omitted in the literature. For his part, Bream, who becomes more irregular in constant-figuration passages, seems to adopt some techniques of historically informed performance. Through the analysis of the duration of notes, beats, sentences, and periods in both renditions, this case study demonstrates, thus, that a specific rendition may be the result of a complex web of motivations and influences. Ultimately, it exemplifies the necessity for the empirical analysis of musical performance in order to detect and understand the nuances that would otherwise remain silent.


Keywords: performance analysis, microtiming, rubato, historically informed performance, Andrés Segovia, Julian Bream, Joaquín Rodrigo

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Llorens, A. (2023). Una base empírica para la historia de la interpretación musical: Segovia y Bream en la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Súmula: Revista De Teoría Y Análisis Musical, 1(1), 4–21. https://doi.org/10.59180/29525993.a0741092
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