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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... viols, the pitch given in this book for their tonality is that of their top string; a lute “in” a', for instance, has that pitch as its top course. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION Ieffery Kite-Powell The first edition Octave Designation ...
... viOl and viola da gamba iconography; also provides an abundance Of links to other important sites: http://www.greatbassviol.corn/treatises.html Facsimiles of English books from the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries (most, but not all ...
... viol by playing long-held notes with a messa di voce, he prob ably was imitating singing instruction. Tosi thus specifies two types of sustaining of the voice. The function of the fermar is to steady the voice on a long, sustained note ...
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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 |