A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-century Music: Edited by Stewart CarterStewart Carter This is a comprehensive reference guide for students and professional musicians. The book contains useful material on vocal and choral music and style; instrumentation; performance practice; ornamentation, tuning, temperament; meter and tempo; basso continuo; dance; theatrical production; and much more. |
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... Italian and French schools . Vibrato was a vocal ornament in English singing as it was elsewhere in Europe . 100 Spain Spanish contributions to musical developments in Italy were significant : the Spanish may have given Italy the ...
... Italian and French schools . Vibrato was a vocal ornament in English singing as it was elsewhere in Europe . 100 Spain Spanish contributions to musical developments in Italy were significant : the Spanish may have given Italy the ...
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... Italy Repertory Many traditions of viol playing and composing that flourished in six- teenth - century Italy continued in the early seventeenth century . In Italy the instrument served diverse musical functions , providing accompani ...
... Italy Repertory Many traditions of viol playing and composing that flourished in six- teenth - century Italy continued in the early seventeenth century . In Italy the instrument served diverse musical functions , providing accompani ...
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... Italy.1 A distinctive Italian repertory of Renaissance origin that continued in the seventeenth century was music for viola bastarda . This term indicates not a particular instrument , but instead a compositional and / or perfor- mance ...
... Italy.1 A distinctive Italian repertory of Renaissance origin that continued in the seventeenth century was music for viola bastarda . This term indicates not a particular instrument , but instead a compositional and / or perfor- mance ...
Contents
Bel canto Style | 30 |
ANNE HARRINGTON | 43 |
GARY TOWNE Vocal Ensembles | 54 |
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