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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... opera and the cataclysmic changes in texture did take place very close to 1600, thereby making that year a convenient dividing line on the early end of our spectrum. The latter end of our period is well defined chronologically, but ...
... opera, oratorio, and sonata. The changes that were wrought in Italy in the early seventeenth century were unusual in many respects. First, the rapidity and profundity of the changes were unparalleled in the history of music up to that ...
... opera and the cantata that altered the balance between text and music. These changes did not happen overnight and were by no means complete by the end of the seventeenth century, but they were well established by musical developments in ...
... opera had its first performances,36 but still significantly smaller and with smaller orchestral forces than we normally find today. The Venetian opera “orchestra” often consisted of only two violins and a large continuo group, thus ...
... opera developed, a singer's skill in acting became increasingly important. Maugars observed that Italian singers “are almost all actors by nature.”46 The anonymous author of the acting treatise Il corago (ca. 1630) reminds us that ...
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 |