Download or read book Interpretation of French Music from 1675 to 1775 written by Betty Bang Mather and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Interpretation of French Music from 1675 to 1775 written by Betty Bang Mather and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Interpretation of French Music from 1675 1775 for Woodwind and Other Performers written by Betty Bang Mather and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To make the melody more pleasing," according to several French writers during the first half of the eighteenth century, subtle rhythmic distortions, various articulation practices, and specific but tasteful ornamentations were used. What were these special practices and how were they employed? How did meter affect tempo, style, and expression? How was this expression articulated in the unequal performance of equally-written quick notes? How did various articulation patterns further bring out the character of the piece? How were ornaments employed for emphasis, to clarify structure, to enhance feeling? Why, where, and how these devices were used is the province of this book. - Preface.
Download or read book Performing French Classical Music written by Timothy Schultz and published by Pendragon Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses what both early and modern sources say about French performance practice and offers solutions to performance problems in Francois Chauvon's Premierre Suitte (taken from Tibiades, 1717). Part one discusses relevant issues of historical performance practice and establishes a conte
Download or read book Companion to Baroque Music written by Julie Anne Sadie and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Companion to Baroque Music is an illuminating survey of musical life in Europe and the New World from 1600 to 1750. With informative essays on the social, national, geographical, and cultural contexts of the music and musicians of the period by such internationally known scholars as Peter Holman, Louise Stein, Michael Talbot, Julie Anne Sadie, Stanley Sadie, and David Fuller, the Companion offers a fresh perspective on the musical styles and performance practices of the Baroque era. The Companion to Baroque Music is an illuminating survey of musical life in Europe and the New World from 1600 to 1750. With informative essays on the social, national, geographical, and cultural contexts of the music and musicians of the period by such internationally known scholars as Peter Holman, Louise Stein, Michael Talbot, Julie Anne Sadie, Stanley Sadie, and David Fuller, the Companion offers a fresh perspective on the musical styles and performance practices of the Baroque era.
Download or read book Performing Baroque Music written by Mary Cyr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Listeners, performers, students and teachers will find here the analytical tools they need to understand and interpret musical evidence from the baroque era. Scores for eleven works, many reproduced in facsimile to illustrate the conventions of 17th and 18th century notation, are included for close study. Readers will find new material on continuo playing, as well as extensive treatment of singing and French music. The book is also a concise guide to reference materials in the field of baroque performance practice with extensive annotated bibliographies of modern and baroque sources that guide the reader toward further study. First published by Ashgate (at that time known as Scolar Press) in 1992 and having been out of print for some years, this title is now available as a print on demand title.
Download or read book A Dictionary for the Modern Flutist written by Susan J. Maclagan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of Susan J. Maclagan’s A Dictionary for the Modern Flutist presents clear and concise definitions of more than 1,600 common flute-related terms that a player of the Boehm-system or Baroque flute may encounter. Fully illustrated with more than 150 images, the entries describe flute types, flute parts; playing techniques; acoustics; articulations; intonation; common ornaments; flute-making and repairs; flute history; flute music books, and many more topics. Unique to the second edition are entries on beatbox techniques and muscles of the face and throat. Entries now also feature bibliographic cross-references for further research. Carefully labeled illustrations for many flute types, parts, mechanisms, and accessories help make definitions easier to visualize. Appendixes provide further information on such subjects as flute classifications, types of flutes and their parts, key and tone hole names, head joint options, orchestra and opera audition excerpts, and biographies of people mentioned in the definitions. Contributed articles include “An Easy Guide to Checking Your Flute Tuning and Scale” by Trevor Wye; “Flute Clutches” by David Shorey; "Early Music on Modern Flute” by Barthold Kuijken; and “Crowns and Stoppers” and “Boehm Flute Scales from 1847 to the Present:The Short Story” by Gary Lewis. Maclagan’s A Dictionary for the Modern Flutist, second edition is an essential reference volume for flutists of all levels and for libraries supporting student, professional, and amateur musicians.
Download or read book French Baroque Music from Beaujoyeulx to Rameau written by James R. Anthony and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1997 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1974, this landmark work quickly established itself as the definitive study of French music from 1581 to 1733, a period that included masters such as Marin Marais, Lully, Couperin, and Rameau. This expanded edition includes a bibliography of more than 1,300 works.
Download or read book Sourcebook for Research in Music written by Phillip Crabtree and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bibliography of bibliographies lists and describes sources, from basic references to highly specialized materials. Valuable as a classroom text and as a research tool for scholars, librarians, performers, and teachers.
Download or read book Reader s Guide to Music written by Murray Steib and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reader's Guide to Music is designed to provide a useful single-volume guide to the ever-increasing number of English language book-length studies in music. Each entry consists of a bibliography of some 3-20 titles and an essay in which these titles are evaluated, by an expert in the field, in light of the history of writing and scholarship on the given topic. The more than 500 entries include not just writings on major composers in music history but also the genres in which they worked (from early chant to rock and roll) and topics important to the various disciplines of music scholarship (from aesthetics to gay/lesbian musicology).
Download or read book The Recorder written by Richard W. Griscom and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Choice "Best Academic" book in its first edition, The Recorder remains an essential resource for anyone who wants to know about this instrument. This new edition is thoroughly redone, takes account of the publishing activity of the years since its first publication, and still follows the original organization.
Download or read book The Ornamentation of Baroque Music written by Manfredo Zimmermann and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-07-05 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything you want to know about embellishing Music of the Baroque Era is taught systematically and well-founded here: from the different "essential ornaments" such as trill, mordent, appoggiatura, slide, etc. up to the free melodic ornaments, cadenzas and improvised grounds. In addition, you will find valuable information, tips, constructive exercises, historical examples and much more. Exclusively you get a live recorded harpsichord-basso continuo accompaniment for all exercises, which supports you harmonically and rhythmically. For pupils, students, amateurs and professional musicians
Download or read book Method for the One Keyed Flute written by Janice Dockendorff Boland and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998-06-05 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This indispensable manual for present-day players of the one-keyed flute is the first complete method written in modern times. Janice Dockendorff Boland has compiled a manual that can serve as a self-guiding tutor or as a text for a student working with a teacher. Referencing important eighteenth-century sources while also incorporating modern experience, the book includes nearly 100 pages of music drawn from early treatises along with solo flute literature and instructional text and fingering charts. Boland also addresses topics ranging from the basics of choosing a flute and assembling it to more advanced concepts such as tone color and eighteenth-century articulation patterns.
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1976 with total page 1406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Flute Book written by Nancy Toff and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divides flute music into eras such as the baroque, classic, romantic, and modern; traces its development in countries such as France, Italy, England, Germany, Spain, the United States, Great Britain, by regions such as eastern and western Europe, and in cities such as Paris and Vienna. Includes appendices listing flute manufacturers, repair shops, sources for flute music and books, and flute clubs and related organizations worldwide.
Download or read book Meter in Music 1600 1800 written by George Houle and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2000-06-22 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "All practising musicians with an interest in the baroque owe it to themselves to be exposed to the ideas contained in this book." —Continuo "This is a book from an excellent musician in the early field who turns out also to be a most persistent scholar . . . " —Early Music " . . . the book offers a vast quantity of data from a wide range of sources. . . . George Houle is to be congratulated for his honest presentation of the entire spectrum." —Music Educators Journal The treatment of meter in performance has evolved dramatically since 1600. Here is a practical guide for the performer, with many quotations from early manuals and treatises, and abundant examples.
Download or read book The End of Early Music written by Bruce Haynes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part history, part explanation of early music, this book also plays devil's advocate, criticizing current practices and urging experimentation. Haynes, a veteran of the movement, describes a vision of the future that involves improvisation, rhetorical expression, and composition.
