Description
Book SynopsisA guide to the performance of Baroque and early Classical music, including discussions of notes inegales, fingerings, woodwind tonguings, and string bowings.
Trade Review"More than the notation was different! ... fine addition ... " --Early Music News "All practising musicians with an interest in the baroque owe it to themselves to be exposed to the ideas contained in this book." -Continuo "This is a book from an excellent musician in the early field who turns out also to be a most persistent scholar ... " --Early Music " ... the book offers a vast quantity of data from a wide range of sources... George Houle is to be congratulated for his honest presentation of the entire spectrum." --Music Educators Journal
Table of ContentsIntroduction
1. The Origins of the Measure in the Seventeenth Century
2. Time Signatures in the Eighteenth Century
3. Rhythmopoeia: Quantitative Meters in Poetry and Music
4. Quantitas Intrinseca: The Perception of Meter
5. Articulation of Quantitative Meter
6. Accent as Measure Articulation and as Measure Definition
Appendix: Rhythmopoeia according to Johann Mattheson and Wolfgang Caspar Printz
Notes
Bibliography
Index
