Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 536 pages)
,
illustrations, music
Edition:
Second edition revised and expanded by Jeffery Kite-Powell
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0253357063
,
0253005280
,
1280596627
,
9780253357069
,
9780253005281
,
9781280596629
Series Statement:
Publications of the Early Music Institute
Content:
"Revised 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."--Provided by publisher
Content:
Vocal/choral issues. National singing styles / Sally Sanford ; The Bel Canto singing style / Julianne Baird ; Choral music in France and England / Anne Harrington Heider ; Choral music in Italy and the Germanic lands / Gary Towne -- Wind, string, and percussion instruments. Woodwinds / Herbert Myers ; Cornett and Sackbut / Bruce Dickey ; Trombone / Stewart Carter ; Trumpet and horn / Steven E. Plank ; Percussion instruments and their usage / John Michael Cooper ; The violin : technique and style / David Douglass ; Historical approaches to playing the violin / Julie Andrijeski ; The viola da gamba family / Stuart Cheney with Barbara Coeyman ; Violoncello and violone / Marc Vanscheeuwijck ; Keyboard instruments / Mark Kroll ; Plucked string instruments / Paul O'Dette -- Performance practice and practical considerations. Ornamentation in early seventeenth-century Italian music / Bruce Dickey ; Basso continuo / Jack Ashworth and Paul O'Dette ; Meter and tempo / George Houle ; Tuning and temperament / Herbert Myers ; Pitch and transposition / Herbert Myers -- The seventeenth-century stage. Dance / Dorothy Olsson ; Theatrical productions / James Middleton
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (at ends of chapters and pages 436-506) and index
,
Previous edition: New York : Schirmer Books, c1997
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780253357069
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0253357063
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Performer's guide to seventeenth-century music Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2012
Language:
English
URL:
Volltext
(lizenzpflichtig)
Bookmarklink
