Music performance issues : 1600-1900 /: 1600-1900. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Beverly Jerold.
• Authors: Jerold, Beverly, 1938-
• Contents: Dilettante and amateur : our evolving language -- Bach's lament about Leipzig's professional instrumentalists -- Choral singing before the era of recordings -- Why most a cappella music could not have been sung unaccompanied -- Fasch and the beginning of modern artistic choral singing -- What Handel's casting reveals about singers of the time -- Intonation standards and equal temperament -- Eighteenth-century stringed keyboard instruments from a performance perspective -- The tromba and corno in Bach's time -- Maelzel's role in Beethoven's symphonic metronome marks -- The French time devices revisited -- The notable significance of C and [cut C] in Bach's era -- Numbers and tempo, 1630-1800 -- Overdotting in Handel's overtures reconsidered -- Notes inégales : a definitive new parameter -- Distinguishing between artificial and natural vibrato in premodern music -- A solution for simple (secco) theater recitative -- How composers viewed performers' additions -- The varied reprise in eighteenth-century instrumental music : a reappraisal.
• Publisher Details: Hillsdale, NY : Pendragon Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (xi, 348 pages), illustrations, music
• Subjects: 781.4/309; Performance practice (Music); Style, Musical; Performance practice (Music); Style, Musical; Historische Musikpraxis; Musikalische Aufführungspraxis; MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781576472644; 1576472647
• Related ISBNs: 9781576472750; 1576472752
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Print version record.
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• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.