A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music, Second Edition Hardback
by Jeffery Kite-Powell
Edited by Stewart Carter
Hardback
Description
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.
Information
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:560 pages, 20 b&w illus., 58 music exx.
- Publisher:Indiana University Press
- Publication Date:21/03/2012
- Category:
- ISBN:9780253357069
Information
-
Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:560 pages, 20 b&w illus., 58 music exx.
- Publisher:Indiana University Press
- Publication Date:21/03/2012
- Category:
- ISBN:9780253357069