Contains 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.
An ever-important and practical guide devoted to the important issues of baroque performance practice. Includes analytical tools performers need to understand and interpret period works.
Issued in the New Grove handbook series, covers Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and 20th Century music in Vol. 2. Essays by individual scholars offer both breadth and detail.
Divided into six sections—tempo, rhythm, dynamics, articulation, phrasing, and ornamentation—and includes re-evaluation of widely held views on inequality, overdotting, and many other issues. Extensive bibliography, including primary sources.
Created in 1987, the CMBV has as its mission the rediscovery, restoration, edition, and broadest possible distribution of the French musical heritage of the17th and 18th centuries.
Promotes "the study and performance of music of the eighteenth century." Provides "a forum where scholars and performers can further their knowledge of music, history and interrelated arts of the period and serves as a resource to facilitate and encourage collaboration."
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