A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music

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.

• | Author: Jeffery Kite-Powell
• | Publisher: Indiana University Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 21, 2012
• | Number of Pages: 560 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 0253357063
• | ISBN-13: 9780253357069