A Performer S Guide To Seventeenth Century Music

Author : Stewart Carter
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253005281

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A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music by Stewart Carter Pdf

Revised and expanded, A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth Century Music is a comprehensive reference guide for students and professional musicians. The book contains useful material on vocal and choral music and style; instrumentation; performance practice; ornamentation, tuning, temperament; meter and tempo; basso continuo; dance; theatrical production; and much more. The volume includes new chapters on the violin, the violoncello and violone, and the trombone—as well as updated and expanded reference materials, internet resources, and other newly available material. This highly accessible handbook will prove a welcome reference for any musician or singer interested in historically informed performance.

Author : Stewart Carter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Music
ISBN : OCLC:960207339

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A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-century Music by Stewart Carter Pdf

Author : Jeffery Kite-Powell
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007-08-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253348661

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A Performer's Guide to Renaissance Music, Second Edition by Jeffery Kite-Powell Pdf

Vocal/choral issues. The solo voice in the Renaissance / Ellen Hargis ; On singing and the vocal ensemble I / Alexander Blachly ; On singing and the vocal ensemble II / Alejandro Planchart ; Practical matters of vocal performance / Anthony Rooley -- Wind, string, and percussion instruments. Recorder ; Renaissance flute / Herbert Myers ; Capped double reeds : crumhorn--Kortholt--Schreierpfeif / Jeffery Kite-Powell ; Shawm and curtal / Ross Duffin ; Racket : rackett, Rankett (Ger.), cervelas (Fr.), cervello (It.) / Jeffery Kite-Powell ; Bagpipe / Adam Knight Gilbert ; Cornett / Douglas Kirk ; Sackbut / Stewart Carter -- Bowed instruments / Wendy Gillespie -- The violin / David Douglass -- Plucked instruments / Paul O'Dette -- The harp / Herbert Myers -- Early percussion / Benjamin Harms -- Keyboard instruments / Jack Ashworth -- Practical considerations/instrumentation. Proto-continuo / Jack Ashworth and Paul O'Dette ; Mixed ensembles / James Tyler ; Large ensembles / Jeffery Kite-Powell ; Rehearsal tips for directors / Adam Knight Gilbert ; Performance editions / Frederick Gable -- Performance practice. Tuning and temperament / Ross Duffin ; Pitch and transposition / Herbert Myers ; Ornamentation in sixteenth-century music / Bruce Dickey ; Pronunciation guides / Ross Duffin -- Aspects of theory. Eight brief rules for composing a si placet altus, ca. 1470-1510 / Adam Knight Gilbert ; Renaissance theory / Sarah Mead -- Introduction to Renaissance dance. Early Renaissance dance, 1450-1520 / Yvonne Kendall -- For the early music director. Starting from scratch / Jeffery Kite-Powell.

Author : Susan McClary
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520952065

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Desire and Pleasure in Seventeenth-Century Music by Susan McClary Pdf

In this book, Susan McClary examines the mechanisms through which seventeenth-century musicians simulated extreme affective states—desire, divine rapture, and ecstatic pleasure. She demonstrates how every major genre of the period, from opera to religious music to instrumental pieces based on dances, was part of this striving for heightened passions by performers and listeners. While she analyzes the social and historical reasons for the high value placed on expressive intensity in both secular and sacred music, and she also links desire and pleasure to the many technical innovations of the period. McClary shows how musicians—whether working within the contexts of the Reformation or Counter-Reformation, Absolutists courts or commercial enterprises in Venice—were able to manipulate known procedures to produce radically new ways of experiencing time and the Self.

Author : Martha Elliott
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0300109326

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Singing in Style by Martha Elliott Pdf

Muziekhistorisch en musicologisch overzicht van de klassieke solozang vanaf de barok tot heden.

Author : Bruce Haynes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780195189872

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The End of Early Music by Bruce Haynes Pdf

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Author : George Houle
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2000-06-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 0253213916

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Meter in Music, 1600–1800 by George Houle Pdf

"All practising musicians with an interest in the baroque owe it to themselves to be exposed to the ideas contained in this book." —Continuo "This is a book from an excellent musician in the early field who turns out also to be a most persistent scholar . . . " —Early Music " . . . the book offers a vast quantity of data from a wide range of sources. . . . George Houle is to be congratulated for his honest presentation of the entire spectrum." —Music Educators Journal The treatment of meter in performance has evolved dramatically since 1600. Here is a practical guide for the performer, with many quotations from early manuals and treatises, and abundant examples.

Author : Arthur Weisberg
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0300066554

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Performing Twentieth-century Music by Arthur Weisberg Pdf

This handbook addresses the performance problems specific to 20th-century music, most of which centre around rhythm and counting. As well explaining the rhythmic complexities in question, the text provides exercises for mastering them.

Author : Sharon Mabry
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002-07-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 019534961X

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Exploring Twentieth-Century Vocal Music by Sharon Mabry Pdf

The vocal repertoire of the twentieth century--including works by Schoenberg, Boulez, Berio, Larsen, and Vercoe--presents exciting opportunities for singers to stretch their talents and demonstrate their vocal flexibility. Contemporary composers can be very demanding of vocalists, requiring them to recite, trill, and whisper, or to read non-traditional scores. For singers just beginning to explore the novelties of the contemporary repertoire, Exploring Twentieth-Century Vocal Music is an ideal guide. Drawing on over thirty years of experience teaching and performing the twentieth century repertoire, Sharon Mabry has written a cogent and insightful book for singers and voice teachers who are just discovering the innovative music of the twentieth century. The book familiarizes readers with the new and unusual notation systems employed by some contemporary composers. It suggests rehearsal techniques and vocal exercises that help singers prepare to tackle the repertoire. And the book offers a list of the most important and interesting works to emerge in the twentieth century, along with suggested recital programs that will introduce audiences as well as singers to this under-explored body of music.

Author : Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (Great Britain)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Music
ISBN : PSU:000050605491

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A Performer's Guide to Music of the Baroque Period by Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (Great Britain) Pdf

Clear, comprehensive and with a CD that complements the text, this book focuses on the music of the Baroque period. It will assist AS/A2 music students, degree students, and also amateur performers and their teachers.

Author : Timothy James McGee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Music
ISBN : 0802067298

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Medieval and Renaissance Music by Timothy James McGee Pdf

Over the past twenty-five years Europe and North America have witnessed an enormous revival of interest in early music. Since the late 1950s numerous professional and amateur ensembles have delighted audiences with the vocal and instrumental music of the twelffth to the sixteenth centuries, while scholars have addressed themselves to the many problems involved in its authentic re-creation. This book unites the two fields; it is both a summary of the most recent scholarly investigations into the subject and a practical guide to the performance of early music based on the experience of the author and others who have performed a sizable portion of the early repertory. McGee lays out clearly the foundation and background of each of the performance problems, presenting the most recent research and pointing out areas of incomplete knowledge and controversy, and then introduces practical solutions based on the scholarship. All the topics necessary for a historical performance of early music are discussed: tempo, rhythmic flow, instrumentation, ornamentation, articulation, improvisation, style, and singing technique, along with some practical hints for selecting a program and shoosing substitute instruments. The final chapters is a reference guide to modern editions of the music and an introduction to the scholarly literature on early music performances. At the time of publication, this book was the first to address the problem of how to perform medieval and Renaissance music. It is intended for both the amateur performing musician and the serious student.

Author : Mary Cyr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351554640

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Performing Baroque Music by Mary Cyr Pdf

Listeners, performers, students and teachers will find here the analytical tools they need to understand and interpret musical evidence from the baroque era. Scores for eleven works, many reproduced in facsimile to illustrate the conventions of 17th and 18th century notation, are included for close study. Readers will find new material on continuo playing, as well as extensive treatment of singing and French music. The book is also a concise guide to reference materials in the field of baroque performance practice with extensive annotated bibliographies of modern and baroque sources that guide the reader toward further study. First published by Ashgate (at that time known as Scolar Press) in 1992 and having been out of print for some years, this title is now available as a print on demand title.

Author : Emily Wilbourne
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226401577

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Seventeenth-Century Opera and the Sound of the Commedia Dell’Arte by Emily Wilbourne Pdf

In this book, Emily Wilbourne boldly traces the roots of early opera back to the sounds of the commedia dell’arte. Along the way, she forges a new history of Italian opera, from the court pieces of the early seventeenth century to the public stages of Venice more than fifty years later. Wilbourne considers a series of case studies structured around the most important and widely explored operas of the period: Monteverdi’s lost L’Arianna, as well as his Il Ritorno d’Ulisse and L’incoronazione di Poppea; Mazzochi and Marazzoli’s L’Egisto, ovvero Chi soffre speri; and Cavalli’s L’Ormindo and L’Artemisia. As she demonstrates, the sound-in-performance aspect of commedia dell’arte theater—specifically, the use of dialect and verbal play—produced an audience that was accustomed to listening to sonic content rather than simply the literal meaning of spoken words. This, Wilbourne suggests, shaped the musical vocabularies of early opera and facilitated a musicalization of Italian theater. Highlighting productive ties between the two worlds, from the audiences and venues to the actors and singers, this work brilliantly shows how the sound of commedia performance ultimately underwrote the success of opera as a genre.

Author : Peter Le Huray
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1990-11-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521399262

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Authenticity in Performance: Eighteenth-Century Case Studies by Peter Le Huray Pdf

Authenticity in Performance focuses on nine representative works from the Baroque and Classical periods, defining some of the more important questions that the performer and listener should ask.

Author : Lorenzo Bianconi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1987-11-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521269156

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Music in the Seventeenth Century by Lorenzo Bianconi Pdf

Examines musical life in the seventeenth century, a period of profound change in the history of music.