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A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music, Second Edition, Hardback Book

A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music, Second Edition Hardback

Edited by Stewart Carter

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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.

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