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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... Viola da Gamba Family MARC VANSCHEEUWIICK STUART CHENEY WITH BARBARA COEYMAN Violoncello and Violone Keyboard Instruments MARK KROLL Plucked String Instruments PAUL O'DETTE 71 100 119 133 150 168 184 210 231 248 272 PART 3. PERFORMANCE ...
... Violas da gamba from Praetorius's Syntagma Musicum 11, Theatrum Instrumentorurn, plate 20 221 Figure 16.1. Giovanni Luca Conforto: Breve etfacile maniera (1593) 295 Figure 16.2. Aurelio Virgiliano: Il dolcimelo (ca. 1590) 297 Figure ...
... 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, on music): ...
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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 |