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Page 91
... sound consequently louder by half ; their [ cellos ] are as large again as the French [ bass - viols ] , and all ours put together don't sound so loud in our operas as two or three of those basses in Italy . Geminiani ( 1751 ) goes into ...
... sound consequently louder by half ; their [ cellos ] are as large again as the French [ bass - viols ] , and all ours put together don't sound so loud in our operas as two or three of those basses in Italy . Geminiani ( 1751 ) goes into ...
Page 165
... sound was not the same . If the harpsichord is a new one , it has all kinds of gadgets and tone - colours ( e.g. ... sound very unpleasant , and conductors and sound engineers can hardly be blamed if they prefer to make Mr X's ugly ...
... sound was not the same . If the harpsichord is a new one , it has all kinds of gadgets and tone - colours ( e.g. ... sound very unpleasant , and conductors and sound engineers can hardly be blamed if they prefer to make Mr X's ugly ...
Page 166
... sound . Here indeed is the cardinal problem . It is possible to discover a great deal about what early music originally sounded like , though the student will need time , patience and judgement . But what should it sound like today ...
... sound . Here indeed is the cardinal problem . It is possible to discover a great deal about what early music originally sounded like , though the student will need time , patience and judgement . But what should it sound like today ...
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Adagio Avison Bach's baroque bass bass-line bassoon C. P. E. Bach choir chords church clavichord composer's composers concerto consort contemporary continuo continuo instruments continuo-playing contratenor Corelli cornetts Couperin crotchet crumhorns dances double-bass early music editor eighteenth eighteenth-century English ensemble extemporization Facsimile figured bass flute fortepiano French style fugue German Handel harmony harpsichord Haydn improvised instance interpretation Italian style keyboard instrument keyboard music kind lute madrigal manuscripts medieval medieval music modern edition mordent motet movement Mozart music written musician mute cornett notation note-values notes oboe old music orchestra organ original ornaments part-books performance piano piece plainsong played player polyphonic present-day printed Purcell Purcell's quavers Renaissance roulades sarabande scholar seventeenth century shawm singers singing sixteenth century slow slur solo sonatas song sonorities sound strings sung symbols taste technique tempo tenor theorbo tone tone-colours treble trill trombones trumpets tune vibrato viol viola violin vocal voices writing