Interpretation Of The Music Of The 17th And 18th Centuries

Author : Arnold Dolmetsch
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486442756
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Interpretation of the Music of the 17th and 18th Centuries written by Arnold Dolmetsch and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most influential figures in the twentieth-century revival of early music, Arnold Dolmetsch (1858–1940) was the first to apply academic attention to the issue of authentic historical performance. His groundbreaking study, The Interpretation of the Music of the 17th and 18th Centuries, first appeared in 1915 and remains a landmark of musicology. An outstanding musician, teacher, and maker of Baroque-style instruments, Dolmetsch sought the correct interpretation of Baroque music in order to heighten its expressive intent and emotional impact. In this study, he quotes extensively from both familiar and lesser-known treatises of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, adding enlightening comments to each quotation and providing illuminating conclusions. Topics include tempo, rhythm, ornamentation, figured bass realization, wrist positioning, and fingering, and musical instruments of the period. A rare appendix of musical examples, originally published separately, appears in this new edition of the first book to address in a comprehensive and scholarly manner the problems of performing Baroque music. More than a text on performance practices, this classic offers glimpses of what Baroque music meant—both as an art and a science—to musicians of the era.

Author : Arnold Dolmetsch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Interpretation of the Music of the 17th and 18th Centuries Revealed by Contemporary Evidence written by Arnold Dolmetsch and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Arnold Dolmetsch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780781204156
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Interpretation of the Music of the 17th and 18th Centuries written by Arnold Dolmetsch and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bonded Leather binding

Author : Jean Claude Veilhan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Rules of Musical Interpretation in the Baroque Era (17th-18th Centuries), Common to All Instruments written by Jean Claude Veilhan and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frederick Neumann
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691213348
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Ornamentation in Baroque and Post-Baroque Music, with Special Emphasis on J.S. Bach written by Frederick Neumann and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ornaments play an enormous role in the music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and ambiguities in their notation (as well as their frequent omission in the score) have left doubt as to how composers intended them to be interpreted. Frederick Neumann, himself a violinist and conductor, questions the validity of the rigid principles applied to their performance. In this controversial work, available for the first time in paperback, he argues that strict constraints are inconsistent with the freedom enjoyed by musicians of the period. The author takes an entirely new look at ornamentation, and particularly that of J. S. Bach. He draws on extensive research in England, France, Germany, Italy, and the United States to show that prevailing interpretations are based on inadequate evidence. These restrictive interpretations have been far-reaching in their effect on style. By questioning them, this work continues to stimulate a reorientation in our understandiing of Baroque and post-Baroque music.

Author : Joseph Kerman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674039568
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Contemplating Music written by Joseph Kerman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemplating Music is a book for all serious music lovers. Here is the first full-scale of ideas and ideologies in music over the past forty years; a period during which virtually every aspect of music was transformed. With this book, Joesph Kerman establishes the place of music study firmly in the mainstream of modern intellectual history. He treats not only the study of the history of Western art music--with which musicology is tradtionally equated--but also sometimes vexed relations between music history and other fields: music theory and analysis, ethnomusicology, and music criticism. Kerman sees and applauds a change in the study of music towarda critical orientation, As examples, he presents a fascinating vignettes of Bach research in the 1950's and Beethoven studies in the 1960's. He sketched the work of prominent scholars and theorists: Thurston Dart, Charles Rosen, Leonard B. Meyer, Heinrich Schenker, Miltion Babbit, and many others. And he comments on such various subjects as the amazing absorption of Stephen Foster's songs into the cannons of black music, the new intensity of Verdi research, controversies about performance on historical instruments, and the merits and demerits of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Comtemplating Music is fulled with wisdom and trenchant commmentary. It will spark controversy among musicologists of all stripes and will give many musicians and amateurs an entirely new perspective on the world of music.

Author : Willi Apel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674375017
Total Pages : 968 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Harvard Dictionary of Music written by Willi Apel and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains nearly 1000 pages of precise and accessible information on all musical subjects.

Author : Joseph P. Swain
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810878259
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Baroque Music written by Joseph P. Swain and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although it lies far back, running roughly from about 1600 to 1750, the Baroque period is far from forgotten and Baroque music is played widely today as well, exercising numerous musicians and attracting rather substantial audiences. It experienced the emergence of a new sort of music, increasingly secular and increasingly good listening, if you will, and also the start of opera. Some of the Baroque composers appear among the most popular of all time, such as Bach, Handel and Vivaldi. So yes, this is a book for researchers, but it is also a good book for anyone who enjoys this music. The Historical Dictionary of Baroque Music certainly fills a significant space in the whole sub-series on music, since it tells us much more not only about the music but also the age that generated it. This is done particularly well in an insightful introduction, with the flow of events traced by the chronology. The dictionary section fills in the missing details with over 400 entries on the most important composers and musicians, some of the musical works themselves, important places and institutions, and a smattering of technical terms. The bibliography directs us to further reading.

Author : Stewart Carter
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253005280
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music written by Stewart Carter and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-21 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised and expanded, A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth Century Music is a comprehensive reference guide for students and professional musicians. The book contains useful 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. The volume includes new chapters on the violin, the violoncello and violone, and the trombone—as well as updated and expanded reference materials, internet resources, and other newly available material. This highly accessible handbook will prove a welcome reference for any musician or singer interested in historically informed performance.

Author : Julie Anne Sadie
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520214149
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

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.