A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music, Second Edition (Publications of the Early Music Institute)
Language: English
Published by Indiana University Press, 2012
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- Title
- A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music, Second Edition (Publications of the Early Music Institute)
- Author
- Stewart Carter; Jeffery Kite-Powell
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Publication year
- 2012
- Condition
- Near fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0253357063
- ISBN 13
- 9780253357069
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Item weight
- 907 grams
- Dimensions
- 4.06 centimeters width by 16.51 centimeters height by 23.88 centimeters depth
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.
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About the Author
Jeffery Kite-Powell is Professor Emeritus at the Florida State University College of Music. He is translator of Michael Praetorius's Syntagma Musicum III and editor of A Performer's Guide to Renaissance Music, Second Edition (IUP, 2007).
Stewart Carter is Chair of the Department of Music at Wake Forest University, Executive Editor of the Historic Brass Society Journal, and former Editor of Historical Performance: The Journal of Early Music America.
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