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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... 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. Lodovico ...
... 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 developments in ...
... Syntagma III:231). For a translation of this passage in its entirety, see Kite-Powell, Syntagma III: 215. 76. Herbst, Musica practica: 3 77. “Welches ist das erste Requisitum?Dieses: dajK ein Sa'nger nicht nur eine Stimme/sondern eine ...
... Syntagma; Printz, Musica; Ranum, Harmonic; Rosand, Opera; Sanders, “Vocal”; Sanford, “Comparison”; Sanford, “Guide”; Sanford, Vocal; Sawkins, “For and Against”; Sherman/ Brown, “Singing”; Spink, “Cavalier”; Spink, “Playfor 's”; Stein ...
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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 |