The Early Violin and Viola: A Practical Guide

by Robin Stowell

Overview

This handbook provides a historical account of the development of the violin, viola and their close relatives as well as a practical guide to playing techniques and principles of interpretation. It aims to help performers to play in a historically appropriate style and to guide listeners toward a clearer understanding of the issues that affected string performance during this series' core period (c.1700-c.1900). Its six detailed case studies, which include Bach and Beethoven, will assist readers in forging well-grounded, period interpretations of major works from the repertory.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521625555
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	07/26/2001
Series:	Cambridge Handbooks to the Historical Performance of Music
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	252
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.55(d)
Lexile:	1760L (what's this?)

Table of Contents

1. Historical performance in context; 2. The repertory and principal sources; 3. Equipment; 4. Technique; 5. The language of musical style; 6. Historical awareness in practice 1: three eighteenth-century case studies: Corelli, Bach and Haydn; 7. Historical awareness in practice 2: three nineteenth-century case studies: Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Brahms; 8. Related family members.

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