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Author: F. T. Arnold
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2013-01-23
Total Pages: 786
ISBN-13: 0486171566
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDIVThis legendary work presents a comprehensive survey that covers every issue of significance to today's performers, with numerous musical examples, authoritative citations, and scholarly interpretations and syntheses. /div
Author: Franck Thomas Arnold
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 0486431959
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA solid grounding in musical techniques of the 17th and 18th centuries is essential to a complete understanding of Baroque music. As scholar Denis Stevens says in his introduction to this work, "Full enjoyment will come only when the soloist learns the gentle art of tasteful embellishment of a melodic line, and when continuo players learn that their role is perhaps the most important in the entire ensemble." Arnold's legendary work is a comprehensive survey of its topic, covering every issue of significance to today's performer. The text is fully amplified with numerous musical examples, authoritative citations, scholarly interpretations and syntheses, and the author's own conclusions. An inexhaustible collection of source material for the musicologist as well as an indispensable companion for conductor, editor, or performer. Volume 2 of a 2-volume set.
Author: Rebecca Herissone
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 1351538950
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first study to provide a systematic and thorough investigation of continuo realization styles appropriate to Restoration sacred music, an area of performance practice that has never previously been properly assessed. Rebecca Herissone undertakes detailed analysis of a group of organ books closely associated with the major Restoration composers Purcell, Blow and Humfrey, and the London institutions where they spent their professional lives. By investigating the relationship between the organ books' two-stave arrangements and full scores of the same pieces, Herissone demonstrates that the books are subtle sources of information to the accompanist, not just short or skeleton scores. Using this evidence, she formulates a model for continuo realization of this repertory based on the doubling of vocal parts, an approach that differs significantly from that adopted by most modern editors, and which throws into question much of the accepted continuo practice in modern performance of this repertory.
Author: Lorenzo Bianconi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1987-11-26
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780521269155
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines musical life in the seventeenth century, a period of profound change in the history of music.
Author: Thomas Christensen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-04-20
Total Pages: 1033
ISBN-13: 1316025489
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cambridge History of Western Music Theory is the first comprehensive history of Western music theory to be published in the English language. A collaborative project by leading music theorists and historians, the volume traces the rich panorama of music-theoretical thought from the Ancient Greeks to the present day. Recognizing the variety and complexity of music theory as an historical subject, the volume has been organized within a flexible framework. Some chapters are defined chronologically within a restricted historical domain, whilst others are defined conceptually and span longer historical periods. Together the thirty-one chapters present a synthetic overview of the fascinating and complex subject that is historical music theory. Richly enhanced with illustrations, graphics, examples and cross-citations as well as being thoroughly indexed and supplemented by comprehensive bibliographies of the most important primary and secondary literature, this book will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars alike.
Author: Stewart Carter
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2012-03-21
Total Pages: 558
ISBN-13: 0253005280
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRevised 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.
Author: Mary Ann Parker
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-15
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13: 113678358X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBaroque composer George Frideric Handel easily ranks among the world's greatest composers. The first edition of this research guide on Handel appeared in 1988; since that time a great deal of scholarly work has been published on Handel and related areas, including the discovery of a hitherto unknown work. New general resources such as the New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992), electronic resources such as the RISM libretto catalogue online, and the study of Handel's continuing popularity as evidenced by the new Handel House Museum in London and Handel practice around the world (e.g., Messiah and millennium celebrations in Tonga, singalong Messiahs etc.) are incorporated into this revised edition of the Handel guide.
Author: Thomas Street Christensen
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 137
ISBN-13: 9058678288
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume reflects a multidisciplinary approach, with the accent on the interplay between music performance and music theory. Thomas Christensen, in his contribution, shows how the development of tonal harmonic theory went hand in hand with the practice of thoroughbass. Both Robert Gjerdingen and Giorgio Sanguinetti focus on the Neapolitan tradition of partimento. Gjerdingen addresses the relation between the realization of partimenti and contrapuntal thinking, illustrated by examples of contrapuntal imitation and combination in partimenti, leading to the "partimentofugue." Sanguinetti elaborates on the history of this partimentofugue from the early eighteenth until the late nineteenth century. Rudolf Lutz, finally, presents his use of partimenti in educational practice, giving examples of how reviving this old practice can give new insights to composers, conductors, and musicians.
Author: Gregor Aichinger
Publisher: A-R Editions, Inc.
Published: 1972-07-01
Total Pages: 138
ISBN-13: 0895790432
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Rebecca Herissone
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780198167006
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThus, over the course of the seventeenth century, there occurred a complete transformation in almost every aspect of theory: by the 1720s, many of the principles being described bore close relation to those still used today. Nowhere was this metamorphosis clearer than in England where, because of a traditional emphasis on practicality, there was much more willingness to accept and encourage new theoretical ideas than on the continent.
