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.

Sommario

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.

Info autore

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

Riassunto

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.

Testo aggiuntivo

’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

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Mary Cyr, Professor Mary Cyr
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 28.08.2011
• EAN: 9780859679602
• ISBN: 978-0-85967-960-2
• Pagine: 254
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Musica > Teoria musicale, didattica musicale; 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)