Books
A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music (Online) by Call Number: ML457 .P49 2012 (print version)Publication Date: 2012Contains 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.
Performing Baroque Music by Call Number: ML457 .C9 1992Publication Date: 1992An 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.
Performance practice : music after 1600 by Call Number: ML457 .P46 1990Publication Date: 1990Issued 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.
Performance Practices of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries by Call Number: ML457 .N46 1993Publication Date: 1993Divided 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.
Societies & Organizations
- Le Centre de Musique Baroque de VersaillesCreated 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.
- Society for Eighteenth-Century MusicPromotes "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."
- Society for Seventeenth-Century MusicDedicated to the study and performance of seventeenth-century music and related arts.