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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... repertory is being made available in modern score in Garland Publishing's ambitious “ Italian Instrumental Music " series , edited by James Ladewig . In addition to the Venetian repertory , this series contains music of many of the ...
... repertory is being made available in modern score in Garland Publishing's ambitious “ Italian Instrumental Music " series , edited by James Ladewig . In addition to the Venetian repertory , this series contains music of many of the ...
Page 190
... repertory evolved from relatively generic use and easy technique to virtuosic solo music . As in many other aspects of cultural life during the richest decades of the reign of Louis XIV in the second half of the century , French writing ...
... repertory evolved from relatively generic use and easy technique to virtuosic solo music . As in many other aspects of cultural life during the richest decades of the reign of Louis XIV in the second half of the century , French writing ...
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... repertory does , although across the decades compositional style became more idiomatic . Approximately 150 compositions that viol ensembles may have played are known to survive . Most of this repertory is for two to six parts and is ...
... repertory does , although across the decades compositional style became more idiomatic . Approximately 150 compositions that viol ensembles may have played are known to survive . Most of this repertory is for two to six parts and is ...
Contents
Bel canto Style | 30 |
ANNE HARRINGTON | 43 |
GARY TOWNE Vocal Ensembles | 54 |
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