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:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13:

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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 Seventeenth-Century Music

A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music

Author: Stewart Carter

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2012-03-21

Total Pages: 558

ISBN-13: 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.


Performing Baroque Music

Performing Baroque Music

Author: Mary Cyr

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 1351554646

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Listeners, performers, students and teachers will find here the analytical tools they need to understand and interpret musical evidence from the baroque era. Scores for eleven works, many reproduced in facsimile to illustrate the conventions of 17th and 18th century notation, are included for close study. Readers will find new material on continuo playing, as well as extensive treatment of singing and French music. The book is also a concise guide to reference materials in the field of baroque performance practice with extensive annotated bibliographies of modern and baroque sources that guide the reader toward further study. First published by Ashgate (at that time known as Scolar Press) in 1992 and having been out of print for some years, this title is now available as a print on demand title.


Baroque Music

Baroque Music

Author: Robert Donington

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9780393300529

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The fruit of a lifetime's research into baroque performing practice.


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

Published: 2007-08-02

Total Pages: 498

ISBN-13: 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.


Singing in Style

Singing in Style

Author: Martha Elliott

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9780300109320

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


The Ornamentation of Baroque Music

The Ornamentation of Baroque Music

Author: Manfredo Zimmermann

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2021-07-05

Total Pages: 94

ISBN-13: 3739231971

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Everything you want to know about embellishing Music of the Baroque Era is taught systematically and well-founded here: from the different "essential ornaments" such as trill, mordent, appoggiatura, slide, etc. up to the free melodic ornaments, cadenzas and improvised grounds. In addition, you will find valuable information, tips, constructive exercises, historical examples and much more. Exclusively you get a live recorded harpsichord-basso continuo accompaniment for all exercises, which supports you harmonically and rhythmically. For pupils, students, amateurs and professional musicians


A Performer's Guide to Medieval Music

A Performer's Guide to Medieval Music

Author: Ross W. Duffin

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 618

ISBN-13: 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.