From Renaissance to Baroque: Change in Instruments and Instrumental Music in the Seventeenth Century

by Holman; Peter

• ISBN13: 9780754604037
• ISBN10: 0754604039
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-07-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Historians of instruments and instrumental music have long recognized that there was a period of profound change in the seventeenth century, when the consorts or families of instruments developed during the Renaissance were replaced by the new models of the Baroque period. This book will appeal to performers, instrument makers and academics with an interest in achieving a better understanding of this process of change from the 'Renaissance' to the 'Baroque'.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgements	ix
List of Illustrations	x
List of Tables and Figure	xiv
List of Musical Examples	xv
Notes on the Contributors	xvii
Introduction: From 'Renaissance' to 'Baroque'?
Jonathan P. Wainwright	1	(22)
1 Baptiste's Hautbois: The Metamorphosis from Shawm to Hautboy in France, 1620-1670
Bruce Haynes	23	(24)
2 A Commentary on the Letter by Michel de La Barre Concerning the History of Musettes and Hautboys
Marc Ecochard	47	(16)
3 The Woodwind Instruments of Richard Haka (1645/6-1705)
Jan Bouterse	63	(10)
4 Basstals or Curtoons: The Search for a Transitional Fagott
Graham Lyndon-Jones	73	(14)
5 The Iconographic Background to the Seventeenth-Century Recorder
Anthony Rowland-Jones	87	(26)
6 The Renaissance Flute in the Seventeenth Century
Nancy Hadden	113	(32)
7 The Flute at Dresden: Ramifications for Eighteenth-Century Woodwind Performance in Germany
Mary Oleskiewicz	145	(22)
8 How did Seventeenth-Century English Violins Really Sound?
Peter Trevelyan	167	(6)
9 The Development of French Lute Style 1600-1650
Matthew Spring	173	(18)
10 The Early Air de Cour, the Theorbo, and the Continuo Principle in France
Jonathan Le Cocq	191	(20)
11 From Stops Organical to Stops of Variety: The English Organ from 1630 to 1730
Dominic Gwynn	211	(16)
12 Upgrading from Consorts to Orchestra at the Wurttemberg Court
Samantha Owens	227	(14)
13 From Violin Band to Orchestra
Peter Holman	241	(18)
14 Organological Gruyère
Jeremy Montagu	259	(10)
Workshop Reports
1 J.S. Bach's Actus tragicus: `Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit' (BWV 106)
Andrew Parrott	269	(2)
2 The French Baroque Orchestra: Lully, Charpentier, Couperin
Graham Sadler	271	(4)
Bibliography	275	(30)
Index	305