A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music

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Divided into four sections that deal respectively with aesthetic considerations, vocal music, instruments, and performance practice, A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music covers the performance of seventeenth-century music from all angles.
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Divided into four sections that deal respectively with aesthetic considerations, vocal music, instruments, and performance practice, A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music covers the performance of seventeenth-century music from all angles.
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Table of Contents

Contributors
Preface
I Vocal Issues
1 Solo Singing 1 3
2 Solo Singing 2: The Bel canto Style 30
3 Vocal Ensembles and Choral Music 1: France and England 43
4 Vocal Ensembles and Choral Music 2: Italy and the Germanic Lands 54
II Instrumental Issues
5 Woodwinds 69
6 Cornett and Sackbut 98
7 Trumpet and Horn 116
8 Percussion and Timpani 133
9 The Violin Family: Part 1: Technique and Style 153
9 The Violin Family: Part 2: Repertory 170
10 The Viola da Gamba Family 178
11 Keyboard Instruments 198
12 Plucked String Instruments 223
III Performance Practice and Related Issues
13 Ornamentation in Early-Seventeenth-Century Italian Music 245
14 Basso Continuo 269
15 Meter and Tempo 297
16 Tuning and Temperament 318
17 Pitch and Transposition 325
18 Dance 341
19 Theatrical Productions 373
General Bibliography 387
Index 415
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