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 83
... Praetorius's remark " that " as to pitch , most shawms are a tone higher than cornetts and sackbuts " is rather puzzling - the more so since this statement is not borne out by his own evidence . ( The scaled representations of ...
... Praetorius's remark " that " as to pitch , most shawms are a tone higher than cornetts and sackbuts " is rather puzzling - the more so since this statement is not borne out by his own evidence . ( The scaled representations of ...
Page 92
... Praetorius - Syntagma I , II , and III . The first volume is in Latin , the second and third in German ( mostly , with a few lapses into Latin ) . The sections of Syntagma II dealing with instruments are translated into English in ...
... Praetorius - Syntagma I , II , and III . The first volume is in Latin , the second and third in German ( mostly , with a few lapses into Latin ) . The sections of Syntagma II dealing with instruments are translated into English in ...
Page 134
... Praetorius states that there is no need to discuss what he con- siders the " ragamuffin instruments " ( lumpen ... Praetorius's dismissal and the fortunately detailed ( and for the time , remarkably ethnomusicological ) illustrations ...
... Praetorius states that there is no need to discuss what he con- siders the " ragamuffin instruments " ( lumpen ... Praetorius's dismissal and the fortunately detailed ( and for the time , remarkably ethnomusicological ) illustrations ...
Contents
Bel canto Style | 30 |
ANNE HARRINGTON | 43 |
GARY TOWNE Vocal Ensembles | 54 |
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