A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music

By: Kite-Powell, Jeffery

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253357063
• ISBN13: 9780253357069
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.5" x 9.4"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher