Description
Book SynopsisA comprehensive manual of performance practice for 17th century music
Trade Review[A] welcome update to a highly valuable resource for the study of performance practice, and should be a staple for any collection supporting a curriculum of music history and/or historically informed approaches to performing music of the seventeenth century.
* Music Reference Services Quarterly *
A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music is an invaluable resource for both students and professional musicians: it brings musicians up to date on musical research for the period; it helps performers to see the seventeenth-century as (almost) a separate era within the Baroque.
* Mu Phi Epsilon *
There's a vast amount of information here, and considerable wisdom. Those exploring 17th-century music should buy a copy.
* Early Music Review *
Full of interest, this performer's guide sometimes seems aimed at the listener and musical historian as much as the performer.
* Classical Music *
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Octave Designation Chart
Preface to the Second Edition \ Jeffery Kite-Powell
Preface to the First Edition \ Stewart Carter
Acknowledgments
Part 1. Vocal/Choral Issues
1. National Singing Styles \ Sally Sanford
2. The Bel Canto Singing Style \ Julianne Baird
3. Choral Music in France and England \ Anne Harrington Heider
4. Choral Music in Italy and the Germanic Lands \ Gary Towne
Part 2. Wind, String, and Percussion Instruments
5. Woodwinds \ Herbert Myers
6. Cornett and Sackbut \ Bruce Dickey
7. Trombone \ Stewart Carter
8. Trumpet and Horn \ Steven E. Plank
9. Percussion and Timpani \ John Michael Cooper
10. The Violin: Technique and Style \ David Douglass
11. Historical Approaches to Playing the Violin \ Julie Andrijeski
12. The Viola da Gamba Family \ Stuart Cheney with Barbara Coeyman
13. Violoncello and Violone \ Marc Vanscheeuwijck
14. Keyboard Instruments \ Mark Kroll
15. Plucked String Instruments \ Paul O'Dette
Part 3. Performance Practice and Practical Considerations
16. Ornamentation in Early Seventeenth-Century Italian Music \ Bruce Dickey
17. Basso Continuo \ Jack Ashworth and Paul O'Dette
18. Meter and Tempo \ George Houle
19. Tuning and Temperament \ Herbert Myers
20. Pitch and Transposition \ Herbert Myers
Part 4. The Seventeenth-Century Stage
21. Dance \ Dorothy Olsson
22. Theatrical Productions \ James Middleton
Appendix A. List of Names and Dates
Appendix B. A Performer's Guide to Medieval Music: Contents
Appendix C. A Performer's Guide to Renaissance Music: Contents
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
