
Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music
Jeffery Kite-Powell
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.
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Music Reference Services Quarterly
A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music is an invaluable resource for both students and professional musicians: it brings musicians up to date on musical research for the period; it helps performers to see the seventeenth-century as (almost) a separate era within the Baroque.
Mu Phi Epsilon
There's a vast amount of information here, and considerable wisdom. Those exploring 17th-century music should buy a copy.
Early Music Review
Full of interest, this performer's guide sometimes seems aimed at the listener and musical historian as much as the performer.
Classical Music