Baroque music
By: edited by Peter Walls
Series: Library of essays on music performance practice; Library of essays on music performance practice
Publisher: Ashgate; Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Farnham, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 553
ISBN-13: 9780754628828
Subjects: History and criticism; Music; Performance practice (Music); History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue. On the execution of music, and principally of ancient music / Camille Saint-Saëns ; Henry P. Bowie, translator; title: The right instrument. Reconstructing the harpsichord / Frank Hubbard ; The harpsichord culture in Bach's environs / John Koster ; Bach and the flute : the players, the instruments, the music / Ardal Powell with David Lasocki ; New light on the old bow : parts 1-2 / Robert E. Seletsky ; Falsetto and the French : une toute autre marche / Andrew Parrott; title: Pitch tuning and temperament. Bach's keyboard temperament : internal evidence frm the Well-tempered clavier / John Barnes ; Beyond temperament : non-keyboard intonation in the 17th and 18th centuries / Bruce Haynes; title: Technique and style. Handelian keyboard fingerings / Mark Lindley ; Violin fingering in the 18th century / Peter Walls ; Tu ru or not tu ru : paired syllables and unequal tonguing patterns on woodwinds in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Bruce Haynes ; La voce è grata assai, ma; title: : Monteverdi on singing / Richard Wistreich; title: Vibrato. The vibrato controversy / Frederick Neumann ; The censored publications of The art of playing on the violin, or, Geminiani unshaken / Roger Hickman; title: What works? Text, subtext, surtext. Text, context, and the early music editor / Philip Brett ; Sous les doits de Chambonniere / David Fuller ; Violinistic virtuosity in the seventeenth century : Italian supremacy or Austro-German hegemony / Peter Allsop ; Ornaments for Corelli's violin sonatas, op. 5 / Neal Zaslaw; title: Tempo and rhythmic alteration. Déjà vu all over again? rhythmic alteration vs. Neumann's musical protectionism / Stephen E. Hefling ; Alteration in Handel : a fresh approach / John Byrt ; Bach's French overtures and the politics of overdotting / Matthew Dirst; title: Scoring. Col nobilissimo esercitio della vivuola : Monteverdi's string writing / Peter Holman ; Professional women musicians in early eighteenth-century Württemberg / Samantha Owens ; Performance practices at San Petronio in the baroque / Anne Schnoebelen ; When is a solo sonata not a solo sonata? Corelli's op. V considered in the light of the genre's tradition / Niels Martin Jensen ; Bach's chorus : a preliminary report / Joshua Rifkin; title: Challenging hip. Bach defended against his devotees / Theodor W. Adorno ; Samuel and Shierry Weber, translators ; Early music defended against its devotees : a theory of historical performance in the twentieth century / Laurence Dreyfus; title: Epilogue. A Bach odyssey / Sigiswald Kuijken.