A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music, Second EditionRevised and expanded, A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth Century Music 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. The volume includes new chapters on the violin, the violoncello and violone, and the trombone—as well as updated and expanded reference materials, internet resources, and other newly available material. This highly accessible handbook will prove a welcome reference for any musician or singer interested in historically informed performance. |
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Jeffery Kite-Powell Stewart Carter. Example 17.11. Francesco Durante, solo partimento exercise (from Partirnenti, ossia intero studio di numerate 334 Example 18.1. Mensural notation 349 FIGURES Figure 1.1. Linkage of selected seventeenth ...
... examples” and “more illustrations,” the readers' comments are common complaints—and ones with which the current editor is certainly in accord. Authors are seldom (if ever) satisfied with the number of such items granted them by a ...
Contents
WIND STRING AND PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS | 69 |
PERFORMANCE PRACTICE AND PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS | 291 |
THE SEVENTEENTHCENTURY STAGE | 395 |
Appendix A List of Names and Dates | 447 |
Contents | 457 |
Contents | 461 |
Bibliography | 463 |
List of Contributors | 507 |
Index | 511 |