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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Page 71
... Mersenne's often seems a secondhand acqui- sition ( which he does not always understand in depth ) . Rare is the page in Mersenne's instrument descriptions without some inexplicable ambi- guity or frustrating lack of clarity . ( Not ...
... Mersenne's often seems a secondhand acqui- sition ( which he does not always understand in depth ) . Rare is the page in Mersenne's instrument descriptions without some inexplicable ambi- guity or frustrating lack of clarity . ( Not ...
Page 76
... Mersenne's France . The ones he is describing , he says , were a gift from England to one of France's kings ; he is rendering their key mechanism in such detail “ so that our [ French ] builders can make some similar . " In any case ...
... Mersenne's France . The ones he is describing , he says , were a gift from England to one of France's kings ; he is rendering their key mechanism in such detail “ so that our [ French ] builders can make some similar . " In any case ...
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... Mersenne's treble cornett ( of the curved , “ ordinary " variety ) is just a little shorter than the corresponding one shown by Praetorius , and its size is consistent with the typical cornett pitch ( ~ C # ) we have seen in Italy and ...
... Mersenne's treble cornett ( of the curved , “ ordinary " variety ) is just a little shorter than the corresponding one shown by Praetorius , and its size is consistent with the typical cornett pitch ( ~ C # ) we have seen in Italy and ...
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Bel canto Style | 30 |
ANNE HARRINGTON | 43 |
GARY TOWNE Vocal Ensembles | 54 |
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