Performing Baroque Music

Provides listeners, performers, students and teachers with the analytical tools they need to understand and interpret musical evidence from the baroque era. This book includes scores for eleven works, many reproduced in facsimile to illustrate the conventions of 17th and 18th century notation.

List of contents

Contents: Preface; Performance practice and Baroque sound; Tempo and spirit; Dynamics; Pitch, tuning and temperament; The basso continuo; Articulation; Rhythm and notation; Ornamentation; Appendices; Index.

About the author

Mary Cyr is Professor of Music, Emerita, at the University of Guelph, Canada.

Summary

Provides listeners, performers, students and teachers with the analytical tools they need to understand and interpret musical evidence from the baroque era. This book includes scores for eleven works, many reproduced in facsimile to illustrate the conventions of 17th and 18th century notation.

Additional text

’Mary Cyr's wide experience shines through the succinctness of this very manageable guide to baroque performance practice. Essential materials are excellently chosen, and skillfully cogent bibliographies to each chapter inform readers of what to read if they wish to know more.....Chapters are arranged by clearly defined topics so that the reader can easily dip in according to his needs.....it should win many friends as a right-minded, 90s view of where we are at’. Richard Langham Smith, The Musical Times

Product details

• Authors: Mary Cyr, Professor Mary Cyr
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.08.2011
• EAN: 9780859679602
• ISBN: 978-0-85967-960-2
• No. of pages: 254
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory; MUSIC / Instruction & Study / General, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, baroque, Techniques of music / music tutorials / teaching of music, Techniques Of Music / Music Tutorials, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Baroque music (c 1600 to c 1750)