Performance Practice, Vol. 1: Music Before 1600 (The Norton/Grove Handbooks in Music)

Brown, Howard Mayer; Sadie, Stanley

ISBN 10: 0393028070 / ISBN 13: 9780393028072

Published by W. W. Norton & Company, 1990

About this Item

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Performance Practice, Vol. 1: Music Before 1600 (The Norton/Grove Handbooks in Music)
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393028070
• ISBN 13: 9780393028072
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

This handbook, an entirely new work, is not simply another guide to the performance of music of the past; it is, rather, a book about the study of past performance.

About the Author

Stanley Sadie (1930-2005), former music critic for The Times of London and editor of The Musical Times, published thirty books and edited the monumental New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.