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The Performance of 16th-Century Music: Learning from the Theorists
Anne Smith
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Description for The Performance of 16th-Century Music: Learning from the Theorists
Paperback. Through The Performance of 16th-Century Music, today's musicians will gain fundamental insight into how 16th-century polyphony functions, and the tools necessary to perform this repertoire to its fullest and glorious potential. Num Pages: 256 pages, 4 music examples, 8 halftones, 96 line illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGC2; AVS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 171 x 232 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
Modern musical training tends to focus primarily on performance practices of the Classical and Romantic periods, and most performers come to the music of the Renaissance with well-honed but anachronistic ideas and concepts. As a result, elemental differences between 16th-century repertoire and that of later epochs tend to be overlooked-yet it is just these differences which can make a performance truly stunning. The Performance of 16th-Century Music offers a remedy for the performer, presenting the information and guidance that will enable them to better understand the music and advance their technical and expressive abilities. Drawing ... Read more
Modern musical training tends to focus primarily on performance practices of the Classical and Romantic periods, and most performers come to the music of the Renaissance with well-honed but anachronistic ideas and concepts. As a result, elemental differences between 16th-century repertoire and that of later epochs tend to be overlooked-yet it is just these differences which can make a performance truly stunning. The Performance of 16th-Century Music offers a remedy for the performer, presenting the information and guidance that will enable them to better understand the music and advance their technical and expressive abilities. Drawing ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199742615
SKU
V9780199742615
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About Anne Smith
For almost forty years, 16th-century music - particularly on renaissance flutes - has been one of Anne Smith's central interests. She has spent most of that time at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, which provides an ideal environment for live research on historical performance practice.
Reviews for The Performance of 16th-Century Music: Learning from the Theorists
Ann Smith ... does an immense service to performers, and especially to students, not only by bringing relevant quotations together, but also by contextualizing them without in any other way over-simplifying their ambiguities. ...we should expect nothing less of someone who has devoted her working life to developing and imparting such understanding.
Richard Wistreich, Early Music
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Richard Wistreich, Early Music
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