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 224
... archlute figures very promi- nently in iconography , accounts of performances , and surviving music of the time — so much so , that it became unnecessary to specify “ archlute ” and the word liuto was used to refer to the extended ...
... archlute figures very promi- nently in iconography , accounts of performances , and surviving music of the time — so much so , that it became unnecessary to specify “ archlute ” and the word liuto was used to refer to the extended ...
Page 230
... archlute was not introduced into England until the arrival of Handel and the Italian opera in 1710 , but a surviving obbligato accompaniment to Purcell's " How pleasant is this flow'ry plain " " 5 strongly suggests the archlute . Not ...
... archlute was not introduced into England until the arrival of Handel and the Italian opera in 1710 , but a surviving obbligato accompaniment to Purcell's " How pleasant is this flow'ry plain " " 5 strongly suggests the archlute . Not ...
Page 292
... archlute or harpsichord AOD Opera , Cantata A. Scarlatti , Legrenzi theorbo , harpsichord , archlute AOD Surviving parts ( or lack of them ) indicate that small ensembles ( one or two solo voices + bc ) were not performed with the bass ...
... archlute or harpsichord AOD Opera , Cantata A. Scarlatti , Legrenzi theorbo , harpsichord , archlute AOD Surviving parts ( or lack of them ) indicate that small ensembles ( one or two solo voices + bc ) were not performed with the bass ...
Contents
Bel canto Style | 30 |
ANNE HARRINGTON | 43 |
GARY TOWNE Vocal Ensembles | 54 |
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