From Renaissance to Baroque
Subtitle: change in instruments and instrumental music in the seventeenth century : proceedings of the National Early Music Association Conference held, in association with the Department of Music, University of York and the York Early Music Festival, at the University College of Ripon and York St. John, York, 2-4 July 1999
By: edited by Jonathan Wainwright and Peter Holman.
Contributors: Wainwright, Jonathan.; Holman, Peter, 1946-; University of York. Dept. of Music.; York Musical Festival.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hampshire, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9780754604037
Subjects: Musical instruments -- History -- 17th century -- Congresses; Instrumental music -- 17th century -- History and criticism -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Description: The contributors to this volume address such topics as the early history of the orchestra, iconography, pitch, and continuo practice, as well as questions relating specifically to the performance of baroque music.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-304) and index.
Table of contents: title: Baptiste's hautbois : the metamorphosis from shawm to hautboy in France, 1620-1670 / Bruce Haynes; title: A commentary on the Letter by Michel de La Barre concerning the history of musettes and hautboys /  Marc Ecochard; title: The woodwind instruments of Richard Haka (1645/6-1705)  / Jan Bouterse; title: Basstals or curtoons : the search for a transitional fagott / Graham Lyndon-Jones; title: The iconographic background to the seventeenth-century recorder / Anthony Rowland-Jones; title: The Renaissance flute in the seventeenth century / Nancy Hadden; title: The flute at Dresden : ramifications for eighteenth-century woodwind performance in Germany / Mary Oleskiewicz; title: How did seventeenth-century English violins really sound? / Peter Trevelyan; title: The development of French lute style 1600-1650 / Matthew Spring; title: The early air de cour, the theorbo, and the continuo principle in France / Jonathan Le Cocq; title: From stops organical to stops of variety : the English organ from 1630 to 1730 / Dominic Gwynn; title: Upgrading from consorts to orchestra at the Württemberg court / Samantha Owens; title: From violin band to orchestra /  Peter Holman; title: Organological Gruyhre / Jeremy Montagu.