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Jeffery Kite-Powell - Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music - 9780253357069 - V9780253357069
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Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music

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Description for Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music Hardcover. A comprehensive manual of performance practice for 17th century music Editor(s): Carter, Stewart. Series: Publications of the Early Music Institute. Num Pages: 560 pages, 20 b&w illus., 58 music exx. BIC Classification: AVGC3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 241 x 38. Weight in Grams: 924.

Revised and expanded, A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth Century Music is a comprehensive reference guide for students and professional musicians. The book contains useful material on vocal and choral music and style; instrumentation; performance practice; ornamentation, tuning, temperament; meter and tempo; basso continuo; dance; theatrical production; and much more. The volume includes new chapters on the violin, the violoncello and violone, and the trombone—as well as updated and expanded reference materials, internet resources, and other newly available material. This highly accessible handbook will prove a welcome reference for any musician or singer interested in historically informed performance.

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
568
Condition
New
Series
Publications of the Early Music Institute
Number of Pages
560
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253357069
SKU
V9780253357069
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About Jeffery Kite-Powell
Jeffery Kite-Powell is Professor Emeritus at the Florida State University College of Music. He is translator of Michael Praetorius's Syntagma Musicum III and editor of A Performer's Guide to Renaissance Music, Second Edition (IUP, 2007). Stewart Carter is Chair of the Department of Music at Wake Forest University, Executive Editor of the Historic Brass Society Journal, and former Editor ... Read more

Reviews for Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music
[A] welcome update to a highly valuable resource for the study of performance practice, and should be a staple for any collection supporting a curriculum of music history and/or historically informed approaches to performing music of the seventeenth century.
Music Reference Services Quarterly
A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music is an invaluable resource for both students and professional ... Read more

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