A performer's guide to Renaissance music
By: edited by Jeffery Kite-Powell.
Contributors: Kite-Powell, Jeffery T.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Bloomington, IN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 474
ISBN-13: 9780253348661
Subjects: Performance practice (Music) -- History -- To 1500; Performance practice (Music) -- History -- 16th century
Notes: Previous ed.: New York : Schirmer Books, 1994.

Includes bibliographical references (p.   ) and index.
Table of contents: title: 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; title: Wind, string, and percussion instruments. Recorder ; Renaissance flute / Herbert Myers ; Capped double reeds : crumhorn; title: Kortholt; title: 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; title: Bowed instruments / Wendy Gillespie; title: The violin / David Douglass; title: Plucked instruments / Paul O'Dette; title: The harp / Herbert Myers; title: Early percussion / Benjamin Harms; title: Keyboard instruments / Jack Ashworth; title: 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; title: Performance practice. Tuning and temperament / Ross Duffin ; Pitch and transposition / Herbert Myers ; Ornamentation in sixteenth-century music / Bruce Dickey ; Pronunciation guides / Ross Duffin; title: Aspects of theory. Eight brief rules for composing a si placet altus, ca. 1470-1510 / Adam Knight Gilbert ; Renaissance theory / Sarah Mead; title: Introduction to Renaissance dance. Early Renaissance dance, 1450-1520 / Yvonne Kendall; title: For the early music director. Starting from scratch / Jeffery Kite-Powell.