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9781574670431

Performing Baroque Music

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  • ISBN13:

    9781574670431

  • ISBN10:

    1574670433

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1998-10-01
  • Publisher: Amadeus Pr
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Summary

This practical guide is devoted to the important issues of baroque performance practice. Listeners and performers will find the analytical tools they need to understand and interpret period works. Scores for 11 works are included.

Table of Contents

Performance Practice and Baroque Sound
The role of the performer in baroque music
The sources and tools for studying baroque performance
Baroque Sound
Bibliographical notes
Tempo and Spirit
Tempo mark and meter in baroque music
Determining the appropriate spirit
Affect and the aria
Tempo in 17th century music
The 18th century adagio
Other baroque tempo marks
The dances and their tempos
Bibliographical notes
Dynamics
Written and unwritten dynamic nuances in the 17th century
Written and implied dynamics in 18th century music
The relationship of dynamics to harmony
Bibliographical notes
Pitch, Tuning, and Temperament
The nonstandard nature of baroque pitches and temperaments
Northern Germany, The background to Bach's pitches
J S Bach's pitches
Low pitches used in France
Some high and low pitches in Italy
Choosing a pitch for modern performance
Equal and nonequal temperaments
Bibliographical notes
The Basso Continuo
Use and function of the continuo in the 17th century
The choice of continuo instruments in French music
The continuo instruments in Bach's music
Realizine the continuo part
Summary and modern considerations
Bibliographical notes
Articulation
Lully and 17th century French orchestral practice
The emergence of solo styles of articulation in the 18th century
Late baroque solo and orchestral playing
Woodwind articulation
Articulation in singing
Keyboard articulation
Summary: Choosing articulation
Bibliographical notes
Rhythm and Notation
The unmeasured prelude
Declamation and recitative
Other rhythmic alterations
Summary and final thoughts
Bibliographical
Ornamentation
The early baroque period
Italian ornamentation after 1660
French ornamentation after 1660
Vocal ornamentation
J S Bach's ornamentation
Bibliographical notes
Appendices
Index
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