Performance Practice: Music After 1600 (Norton/Grove Handbooks in Music) Howard Mayer Brown and Stanley Sadie

From the series of musical handbooks, this book concentrates on the study of past performances, from medieval to 20th century music and looks at sources, theory, vocal and instrumental performance techniques. The difference in instruments and playing techniques in history is also discussed. Stanley Sadie is the editor of "The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians".