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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... specific pitch or key, meaning that their fundamental pitch or tone is the letter given. But “in” for early instruments is not always the same as for modern band and orchestral winds, for which anything other than “in C” implies they ...
... specific chapters to read according to one's particular needs at any given time, be it the one on ornamentation or the one on recorder, and so forth. Secondary reasons concern reader expectations: anyone familiar with the first edition ...
... specific item or name, consult the index first. You may be surprised at how many more sightings you will find. It should also be noted that writers come in many different stripes: one writer might be thought of as a performer who writes ...
... specific treatise or source today, then try tomorrow, or next month, or next year. Some websites have extremely long addresses (URLs), and copying them into a search window can be time-consuming and arduous. As everyone has surely ...
... specific area Of resonance involved for this particular character Ofa language or a dialect. In German one can say instead Of'Dialekt' also 'Mundart.' . . . This causes a different sound, a different resonance and a different ...
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 |