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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... Mersenne, Harmonie universelle, drum rhythms Example 9.2. Wirbel and doppel-wirbel (from Iohann Ernst Altenburg, Versuch einer Anleitung) Example 9.3. Final-cadence (from Speer, Musikalisches Kleeblatt) Example 9.4. (a) Cross-stickings ...
... Mersenne, Harmonie universelle, vol. 3 122 Figure 7.5. Lodovico Carracci, Il paradiso (ca. 1616). Bologna, Church of San Paolo (detail) 122 Figure 7.6. Hans Burgkmair and others, Der Triumphzug Maximilians I (1526), plate 78 (detail) ...
... Mersenne, Harmonie universelle, 1636 Although one might assume that the human voice has not changed over the centuries, many elements of seventeenth-century vocal performance practice differed considerably from modern singing. There was ...
... Fuhrrnann [1 1'06; W15) FHAN CE 5pm“ Corona {1613) '1 it Mersenne (1636] Bacflly [1655) language.2 As Andrea von Ramm has observed, singing voice, depending on the language sung.3 Kanst Oder Manier: 4 VocAL/CI—IORAL ISSUES.
... Mersenne's Harmonie universelle (1636).48 French singing did not undergo the radical changes seen in the Italian school at the turn of the seventeenth century,49 though the French were certainly aware of developments in Italy. Mersenne ...
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 |