A Performer's Guide to Renaissance Music, Second Edition

Jeffery Kite-Powell

ISBN 10: 0253348668 / ISBN 13: 9780253348661

Published by Indiana University Press, US, 2007

About this Item

Revised and expanded since it first appeared in 1991, the guide features two new chapters on ornamentation and rehearsal techniques, as well as updated reference materials, internet resources, and other new material made available only in the last decade. The guide is comprised of focused chapters on performance practice issues such as vocal and choral music; various types of ensembles; profiles of specific instruments; instrumentation; performance practice issues; theory; dance; regional profiles of Renaissance music; and guidelines for directors. The format addresses the widest possible audience for early music, including amateur and professional performers, musicologists, theorists, and educators.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Performer's Guide to Renaissance Music, Second Edition
• Publisher: Indiana University Press, US
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0253348668
• ISBN 13: 9780253348661
• Binding: Hardback
• Edition: Second Edition.
• Condition: New
• Weight: 912 grams

About this title

Synopsis

Revised and expanded since it first appeared in 1991, the guide features two new chapters on ornamentation and rehearsal techniques, as well as updated reference materials, internet resources, and other new material made available only in the last decade.

The guide is comprised of focused chapters on performance practice issues such as vocal and choral music; various types of ensembles; profiles of specific instruments; instrumentation; performance practice issues; theory; dance; regional profiles of Renaissance music; and guidelines for directors. The format addresses the widest possible audience for early music, including amateur and professional performers, musicologists, theorists, and educators.

About the Author

Jeffery Kite-Powell is Professor and Coordinator of Music History and Musicology at Florida State University, where he teaches courses on musicology and music history, and directs the FSU Early Music Ensemble and the vocal group Cantores Musicæ Antiquæ.