Readings in the History of Music in Performance - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0253144957 ISBN 13: 9780253144959

Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr, 1979

Synopsis

This is a most important contribution to the practical art of interpretation, consisting as it does of passages by writers on musical performance from the late Middle Ages through to the borders of the classical and romantic periods from Jerome of Moravia to Hector Berlioz...Brief but excellent biographical sketches by Carol MacClintock precede each entry. The 65 selections in "Readings in the History of Music in Performance" include travelers' accounts, reviews, letters, and pedagogic texts. They reveal the conventions of earlier musical notation, what constituted a concert in other times, how musicians performed their music, and how their audiences heard it.

About this title

About the Author:

CAROL MACCLINTOCK (1910–1989) was Professor Emeritus of Musicology at the University of Cincinnati and author of The Solo Song 1580–1730, Giaches de Wert: Life and Works, and many other books and articles.

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)

About this edition

• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0253144957
• ISBN 13: 9780253144959
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Editor: MacClintock Carol