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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... teenth - century polyphonic style still much used in German Lutheran churches as late as the eighteenth century . A manuscript in the Berlin Staatsbibliothek that preserves , partly in the hand of J. S. Bach , a group of instrumental ...
... teenth - century polyphonic style still much used in German Lutheran churches as late as the eighteenth century . A manuscript in the Berlin Staatsbibliothek that preserves , partly in the hand of J. S. Bach , a group of instrumental ...
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... teenth century . Moreover , small neck - laced kettledrums continued to be produced in what is now Western Europe up to the late nineteenth cen- tury - indicating , presumably , that they were still used in some musical contexts during ...
... teenth century . Moreover , small neck - laced kettledrums continued to be produced in what is now Western Europe up to the late nineteenth cen- tury - indicating , presumably , that they were still used in some musical contexts during ...
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... century had but to master a few styles of playing and often composed or ... century violin music . Though this earliest phase of Baroque violin playing has ... teenth - century violin music are accomplished through anachronistic means ...
... century had but to master a few styles of playing and often composed or ... century violin music . Though this earliest phase of Baroque violin playing has ... teenth - century violin music are accomplished through anachronistic means ...
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Bel canto Style | 30 |
ANNE HARRINGTON | 43 |
GARY TOWNE Vocal Ensembles | 54 |
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