Author : F. T. Arnold
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 17,43 MB
Release : 2013-01-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 0486171566
DIVThis 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
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 43,39 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0486431959
A 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 : Lorenzo Bianconi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 19,95 MB
Release : 1987-11-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521269155
Examines musical life in the seventeenth century, a period of profound change in the history of music.
Author : Thomas Christensen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1033 pages
File Size : 21,43 MB
Release : 2006-04-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 1316025489
The 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
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 25,72 MB
Release : 2012-03-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 0253005280
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.
Author : Mary Ann Parker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 48,40 MB
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 113678358X
Baroque 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 : Rebecca Herissone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 37,76 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 1351538969
This 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 : Thomas Street Christensen
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 26,99 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Music
ISBN : 9058678288
This 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.
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 37,61 MB
Release : 1972-07-01
Category : Sacred vocal quartets, Unaccompanied
ISBN : 0895790432
Author : Rebecca Herissone
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 29,62 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780198167006
Thus, 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.
