A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music

A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music
Author: Stewart Carter
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 558
Release: 2012-03-21
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0253005280

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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.

A Performer's Guide to Renaissance Music, Second Edition

A Performer's Guide to Renaissance Music, Second Edition
Author: Jeffery Kite-Powell
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 498
Release: 2007-08-02
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0253348668

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Vocal/choral issues. The solo voice in the Renaissance / Ellen Hargis ; On singing and the vocal ensemble I / Alexander Blachly ; On singing and the vocal ensemble II / Alejandro Planchart ; Practical matters of vocal performance / Anthony Rooley -- Wind, string, and percussion instruments. Recorder ; Renaissance flute / Herbert Myers ; Capped double reeds : crumhorn--Kortholt--Schreierpfeif / Jeffery Kite-Powell ; Shawm and curtal / Ross Duffin ; Racket : rackett, Rankett (Ger.), cervelas (Fr.), cervello (It.) / Jeffery Kite-Powell ; Bagpipe / Adam Knight Gilbert ; Cornett / Douglas Kirk ; Sackbut / Stewart Carter -- Bowed instruments / Wendy Gillespie -- The violin / David Douglass -- Plucked instruments / Paul O'Dette -- The harp / Herbert Myers -- Early percussion / Benjamin Harms -- Keyboard instruments / Jack Ashworth -- Practical considerations/instrumentation. Proto-continuo / Jack Ashworth and Paul O'Dette ; Mixed ensembles / James Tyler ; Large ensembles / Jeffery Kite-Powell ; Rehearsal tips for directors / Adam Knight Gilbert ; Performance editions / Frederick Gable -- Performance practice. Tuning and temperament / Ross Duffin ; Pitch and transposition / Herbert Myers ; Ornamentation in sixteenth-century music / Bruce Dickey ; Pronunciation guides / Ross Duffin -- Aspects of theory. Eight brief rules for composing a si placet altus, ca. 1470-1510 / Adam Knight Gilbert ; Renaissance theory / Sarah Mead -- Introduction to Renaissance dance. Early Renaissance dance, 1450-1520 / Yvonne Kendall -- For the early music director. Starting from scratch / Jeffery Kite-Powell.

A Performer's Guide to Medieval Music

A Performer's Guide to Medieval Music
Author: Ross W. Duffin
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 618
Release: 2000
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780253215338

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A Performer's Guide to Medieval Music is an essential compilation of essays on all aspects of medieval music performance, with 40 essays by experts on everything from repertoire, voices, and instruments to basic theory. This concise, readable guide has proven indispensable to performers and scholars of medieval music.

Singing in Style

Singing in Style
Author: Martha Elliott
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780300109320

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Muziekhistorisch en musicologisch overzicht van de klassieke solozang vanaf de barok tot heden.

A Performer's Guide to Music of the Baroque Period

A Performer's Guide to Music of the Baroque Period
Author: Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (Great Britain)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2002
Genre: Music
ISBN:

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Clear, comprehensive and with a CD that complements the text, this book focuses on the music of the Baroque period. It will assist AS/A2 music students, degree students, and also amateur performers and their teachers.

A Performer's Guide to Renaissance Music

A Performer's Guide to Renaissance Music
Author: Jeffery Kite-Powell
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 498
Release: 2007-08-02
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0253013771

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Revised and expanded since it first appeared in 1991, the guide features two new chapters on ornamentation and rehearsal techniques, as well as updated reference materials, internet resources, and other new material made available only in the last decade. The guide is comprised of focused chapters on performance practice issues such as vocal and choral music; various types of ensembles; profiles of specific instruments; instrumentation; performance practice issues; theory; dance; regional profiles of Renaissance music; and guidelines for directors. The format addresses the widest possible audience for early music, including amateur and professional performers, musicologists, theorists, and educators.

Transitions in Mid-Baroque Music

Transitions in Mid-Baroque Music
Author: Carrie Churnside
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2024-05-28
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1837651582

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Featuring 102 music examples, this edited collection features contributions by leading scholars from the UK, United States, Australasia and Europe on what characterized the period. This collection focusses on the stylistic and cultural interchange that characterizes the musical period of the mid-Baroque (c.1650-1710). The idea of musical transition during this period is evident in two principal ways: geographical and chronological (the two often overlap). Chapters examine geographical transition by tracing the exchange of regional and national styles, while considering chronological evolution from the perspective of music theory, performance practice, source studies or specific repertoires. Studies range across instrumental and vocal music, both sacred and secular, and encompass some of the main European traditions prevalent at the time: Italian, German, French and English. The collection features contributions by leading scholars from the UK, the United States, Australasia and Europe. CARRIE CHURNSIDE is Associate Professor in Music at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (part of Birmingham City University).

Keyboard Music Before 1700

Keyboard Music Before 1700
Author: Alexander Silbiger
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 421
Release: 2004-08-02
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1135924228

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Keyboard Music Before 1700 begins with an overview of the development of keyboard music in Europe. Then, individual chapters by noted authorities in the field cover the key composers and repertory before 1700 in England, France, Germany and the Netherlands, Italy, and Spain and Portugal. The book concludes with a chapter on performance practice, which addresses current issues in the interpretation and revival of this music.

Desire and Pleasure in Seventeenth-Century Music

Desire and Pleasure in Seventeenth-Century Music
Author: Susan McClary
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2012-03-06
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0520952065

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In this book, Susan McClary examines the mechanisms through which seventeenth-century musicians simulated extreme affective states—desire, divine rapture, and ecstatic pleasure. She demonstrates how every major genre of the period, from opera to religious music to instrumental pieces based on dances, was part of this striving for heightened passions by performers and listeners. While she analyzes the social and historical reasons for the high value placed on expressive intensity in both secular and sacred music, and she also links desire and pleasure to the many technical innovations of the period. McClary shows how musicians—whether working within the contexts of the Reformation or Counter-Reformation, Absolutists courts or commercial enterprises in Venice—were able to manipulate known procedures to produce radically new ways of experiencing time and the Self.