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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... continuo realization Example 17.7. Continuo realization of an aria, ca. 1700, from Anonymous, Regole. . . d'accompagnare Example 17.8. Henry Lawes, Sweet Stay Awhile (figures editorial) Example 17.9. Sample realizations for cadential ...
... continuo, use harpsichord in secular music, organ in sacred music. 3. Crescendo and diminuendo were not used in Baroque music; apply terrace dynamics instead. Then there is the shopworn trick question, “How many performers are required ...
... continuo player, Catherine Liddell, for works in stile recitativo. It reflects performance decisions made in rehearsal. This is most apparent with respect to tied and untied notes in the bass that depart slightly from the original ...
... continuo group, thus putting more focus on the singers.37 Castratos, with their penetrating sound quality, wide ranges, large breath capacity, and extensive musical training, were ideal voices for the theater.38 The hermaphroditic ...
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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 |