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Subject(s)

• Performance practice (Music)—History—17th century [Browse]

Editor

• Carter, Stewart, 1944- [Browse]
• Kite-Powell, Jeffery T. [Browse]

Series

Publications of the Early Music Institute [More in this series]

Summary note

"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.

Notes

Prev. ed.: New York : Schirmer Books, c1997.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 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.

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Other title(s)

Performer's guide to 17th-century music

ISBN

• 9780253005281 ((electronic bk.))
• 0253005280 ((electronic bk.))
• 9786613626455
• 6613626457

OCLC

860599310

Other standard number

• 9786613626455

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