Essays in performance practice
By: by Frederick Neumann.
Series: Studies in musicology ;; no. 58
Publisher: UMI Research Press
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
Subjects: Performance practice (Music) -- 17th century; Performance practice (Music) -- 18th century; Embellishment (Music)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Previously published articles.
Table of contents: title: The use of baroque treatises on musical performance; title: Donington's A performer's guide to baroque music, a review; title: The French inégales, Quantz and Bach; title: An answer to Donington's critique; title: External evidence and uneven notes; title: The dotted note and the so-called French style; title: Rhythm in the two versions of Bach's French overture, BWV 831; title: Facts and fiction about overdotting; title: Once more the "French overture style"; title: The overdotting syndrome, anatomy of a delusion; title: Misconceptions about the French trill in the 17th and 18th centuries; title: A new look at Bach's ornamentation; title: Notes on "melodic" and "harmonic" ornaments; title: Couperin and the downbeat doctrine for appoggiaturas - Ornament and structure; title: The appoggiatura in Mozart's recitative.