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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... Praetorius, Syntagma Musicum 11, De Organographia (1619) 121 Figure 7.3. Michael Praetorius, Syntagma Musicum 11, Theatrum Instrumentorum, plate 6 (detail) 121 Figure 7.4. Marin Mersenne, Harmonie universelle, vol. 3 122 Figure 7.5 ...
... Praetorius in Syntagma Musicurn III (1619) was imitated throughout the century by writers who tried to convey what they understood of the Italian style of ornamented singing. Though there was increasing impact of Italian musical ...
... Praetorius that the Germans ca.1620, like the Italians ca. 1600, used throat articulation, prized the development of good breath control, and did not favor using falsetto. Praetorius's description of the requisites of a good singing ...
... Praetorius, Wolfgang Caspar Printz, and Falck all used the term zittern in connection with what we would call a ... Praetorius's use of the term bebende. The evidence in the German sources clearly supports the use of intensity vibrato ...
... Praetorius, Syntagrna III: 235; Praetorius/Kite-Powell, Syntagrna III: 218; “Tremolo ist ein scharfles Zittern der Stimme iiber einergro'ssern Noten / so die nechste Clavern mit beriihret. Er steiget entweder aufoder ab / und ist ...
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 |