Sing Romantic Music Romantically - Nineteenth-Century Choral Performance Practices

This book offers a long-overdue examination of choral performance practices in the 1800s, including expressive devices, pronunciation, instruments, and choral/orchestral placement. More than one-hundred musical examples, illustrations, tables, and photographs and contemporaneous sources detail how choral music was sung in this time period.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Proviso
Foreword, by Nick Strimple, DMA
One More Thing
Chapter 1. Expressive Devices
Chapter 2. Pronunciation
Chapter 3. Chordopohones, Aerophones, and Drums
Chapter 4. Quires, Bands, and Where They Sit
[Semi]final Thoughts
Bibliography
Index

About the author

By David Friddle - Foreword by Nick Strimple

Summary

This book offers a long-overdue examination of choral performance practices in the 1800s, including expressive devices, pronunciation, instruments, and choral/orchestral placement. More than one-hundred musical examples, illustrations, tables, and photographs and contemporaneous sources detail how choral music was sung in this time period.

Product details

• Authors: David Friddle
• Assisted by: Strimple Nick (Foreword)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2022
• EAN: 9781666911176
• ISBN: 978-1-66691-117-6
• No. of pages: 448
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; MUSIC / Instruction & Study / General, Music, History: specific events & topics, MUSIC / History & Criticism, MUSIC / Printed Music / Choral, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Choral, History of Music, Music reviews & criticism, Techniques of music / music tutorials / teaching of music, Techniques Of Music / Music Tutorials, Musical scores, lyrics & libretti, Choral Music