Continuo Playing on the Lute, Archlute and Theorbo
Continuo Playing on the Lute, Archlute and Theorbo

Author: Nigel North

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 1987-08-22

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9780253314154

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"... a valuable book. It is an important link between the unknown of the Renaissance and the present." --The Triangle of Mu Phi Epsilon "Straightforward practicality is the most outstanding characteristic of this book." --Continuo "... a fine and very welcome book that is likely to remain the high standard of lute continuo instruction for some time to come." --Sixteenth Century Journal In this extraordinarily broad survey, Nigel North discusses the history of the lute, the archlute, and the theorbo and gives practical advice on technique, the choice of instrument for particular music, and the preparation of scores.

Bach's Continuo Group
Bach's Continuo Group

Author: Laurence Dreyfus

Publisher:

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13:

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When Bach's cantatas, masses, passions, and chorales were originally performed under the composer's direction, which instruments played the basso continuo, the line that establishes the harmonic framework? This book answers this and other fundamental questions and probes the rationale behind Baroque performance conventions.

Continuo Playing According to Handel
Continuo Playing According to Handel

Author: George Frideric Handel

Publisher: Clarendon Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 9780193184336

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This book is an edition, with commentary, of Handel's exercises for continuo playing, which he wrote for the daughters of George II. The exercises, which until now have not been readily available, are supplemented by clear and concise commentary. Remaining faithful to his source, Ledbetter, who lectures in keyboard studies, has prepared an edition that will prove invaluable to students and performers of the music of Handel and his contemporaries.

Thomas Bradwardine
Thomas Bradwardine

Author: Edith Wilks Dolnikowski

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9789004102262

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This volume evaluates Thomas Bradwardine's view of time as a mathematical, philosophical and theological concept within the context of ancient and medieval discussions concerning the problem of time and eternity. The book begins with an assessment of his career as a natural philosopher and theologian in order to establish the factors which influenced his treatment of time. Two succeeding chapters examine the sources of his temporal theory in classical, early medieval and thirteenth-century texts. Next, a series of chapters surveys his view of time as it related to proportionality, continuity, contingency and predestination. The final chapter establishes his place among fourteenth-century natural philosophers and theologians. Because this study traces the issue of time through several major works, it demonstrates how the mathematical, philosophical and theological ideas of one prominent scholar converged within a setting of lively academic discourse. Thus it illuminates a fascinating dimension of one of the most important debates in late medieval thought.