A performer's guide to seventeenth-century music
Stewart Carter (Editor), Jeffery T. Kite-Powell (Editor)
"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."--Provided by publisher
eBook, English, 2012
Second edition
Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana, 2012