Music performance issues
Subtitle: 1600-1900
By: Beverly Jerold
Publisher: Pendragon Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9781576472750
Subjects: Musical Style; Performance practice (Music)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Dilettante and amateur : our evolving language; title: Bach's lament about Leipzig's professional instrumentalists; title: Choral singing before the era of recordings; title: Why most a cappella music could not have been sung unaccompanied; title: Fasch and the beginning of modern artistic choral singing; title: What Handel's casting reveals about singers of the time; title: Intonation standards and equal temperament; title: Eighteenth-century stringed keyboard instruments from a performance perspective; title: The tromba and corno in Bach's time; title: Maelzel's role in Beethoven's symphonic metronome marks; title: The French time devices revisited; title: The notable significance of C and [cut C] in Bach's era; title: Numbers and tempo, 1630-1800; title: Overdotting in Handel's overtures reconsidered; title: Notes inâegales : a definitive new parameter; title: Distinguishing between artificial and natural vibrato in premodern music; title: A solution for simple (secco) theater recitative; title: How composers viewed performers' additions