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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... Lully, Schiitz, or Praetorius, and others thrown at uS constantly? So to avoid cluttering the text, anyone interested in knowing when a composer, an instrument maker, a theorist, philosopher, writer, painter, and so forth lived need ...
... one who exerted immeasurable influence on musical style throughout Europe—appeared after this date. The last works of Lully, who almost single-handedly created the French Baroque style, similarly appeared after Preface to the First Edition.
... Lully. They were often performed in the salons of the précieux, for an elite audience as preoccupied with the refinement of language as with dress and manners. Singers had to be as concerned with pronunciation as with any other aspect ...
... Lully developed his style of recitative in part by hearing the declamation of the actress Marie La Champmeslé. Singing required a more heightened and exaggerated declamation than speech, one that conveyed both the character of the words ...
... Lully perhaps the most important, for he wrote many title roles for this voice type, reflecting the French preference for higher voices of both sexes.72 It is generally accepted today that the French haute-contre was not a falsetto ...
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 |