Style and performance for bowed string instruments in French baroque music
By: Mary Cyr
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781409405696
Subjects: Performance; Performance practice (Music); Bowed stringed instruments; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sources and style in French baroque music. Historical context, musical works, and performance ; French and Italian musical style : the great divide; title: Bowed string instruments in French ensembles. Strings in French ensembles ; Bass instruments of the violin and viol families in solo and ensemble roles; title: Interpretation and style in French music for string players. Articulation ; Tempo, character, and inequality ; Ornamentation and special effects ; Basse continue, pitch, and temperament; title: Composer profiles. Marin Marais : viol player, composer, and teacher extraordinaire ; Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre's violin sonatas : what the sources do (and do not) tell us ; Jean-Baptiste Barrière, virtuoso cellist and composer ;  Forqueray's Pieces de viole avec la basse continue : authorship and performance issues.