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The 'Musica Instrumentalis Deudsch' of Martin Agricola
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 232

The 'Musica Instrumentalis Deudsch' of Martin Agricola

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1994-07-07
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  • Publisher: CUP Archive

Musica instrumentalis deudsch (1529) was intended as a textbook in musical performance. A completely revised edition appeared in 1545. Highly illustrated, these books give practical instruction on a number of musical instruments and as such they are valuable sources of information about the study and performance of music in Germany in the early sixteenth century.

Tuning and Temperament
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 262

Tuning and Temperament

This classic chronicle of the longstanding challenges of tuning and temperament devotes a chapter to each principal theory, features a glossary and numerous tables, and requires only minimal background in music theory.

The Affinities and Medieval Transposition
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 262

The Affinities and Medieval Transposition

..."" excellent work... "" --Musicological Research ""Dolores Pesce has now provided reliable and more comprehensive coverage of the available theoretical material, and her books should be consulted by all interested in the subject."" --David Hiley, Music and Letters For the first time, Dolores Pesce brings together theoretical perspectives on the concept of affinities, or pitch relationships, in musical treatises of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

The Harpsichord and Clavichord
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1323

The Harpsichord and Clavichord

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-04-15
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The Harpsichord and Clavichord, An Encyclopedia includes articles on this family of instruments, including famous players, composers, instruments builders, the construction of the instruments, and related terminology. It is the first complete reference on this important family of keyboard instruments. The contributors include major scholars of music and musical instrument history from around the world. It completes the three-volume Encyclopedia of Keyboard Instruments.

The Recorder
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 842

The Recorder

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-06-17
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  • Publisher: Routledge

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.

A Performer's Guide to Medieval Music
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 618

A Performer's Guide to Medieval Music

A Performer's Guide to Medieval Music is an essential compilation of essays on all aspects of medieval music performance, with 40 essays by experts on everything from repertoire, voices, and instruments to basic theory. This concise, readable guide has proven indispensable to performers and scholars of medieval music.

The Performance of 16th-Century Music
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 257

The Performance of 16th-Century Music

Most modern performers, trained on the performance practices of the Classical and Romantic periods, come to the music of the Renaissance with well-honed but anachronistic ideas. Fundamental differences between 16th-century repertoire and that of later epochs thus tend to be overlooked-yet it is just these differences which can make a performance truly stunning. The Performance of 16th-Century Music will enable the performer to better understand this music and advance their technical and expressive abilities. Early music specialist Anne Smith outlines several major areas of technical knowledge and skill needed to perform the music of this period. She takes readers through the significance of part-book notation; solmization; rhythmic flexibility; and elements of structure in relation to rhetoric of the time; while familiarizing them with contemporary criteria and standards of excellence for performance. Through The Performance of 16th-Century Music, today's musicians will gain fundamental insight into how 16th-century polyphony functions, and the tools necessary to perform this repertoire to its fullest, most glorious potential.

The Recorder
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 367

The Recorder

The fascinating story of a hugely popular instrument, detailing its rich and varied history from the Middle Ages to the present The recorder is perhaps best known today for its educational role. Although it is frequently regarded as a stepping-stone on the path toward higher musical pursuits, this role is just one recent facet of the recorder’s fascinating history—which spans professional and amateur music-making since the Middle Ages. In this new addition to the Yale Musical Instrument Series, David Lasocki and Robert Ehrlich trace the evolution of the recorder. Emerging from a variety of flutes played by fourteenth-century soldiers, shepherds, and watchmen, the recorder swiftly became an artistic instrument for courtly and city minstrels. Featured in music by the greatest Baroque composers, including Bach and Handel, in the twentieth century it played a vital role in the Early Music Revival and achieved international popularity and notoriety in mass education. Overall, Lasocki and Ehrlich make a case for the recorder being surprisingly present, and significant, throughout Western music history.

Enciclopedia Internacional de Pseud·ʼnimos
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 400

Enciclopedia Internacional de Pseud·ʼnimos

This Encyclopedia is the first to compile pseudonyms from all over the world, from all ages and occupations in a single work: some 500,000 pseudonyms of roughly 270,000 people are deciphered here. Besides pseudonyms in the narrower sense, initials, nick names, order names, birth and married names etc. are included. The volumes 1 to 9 list persons by their real names in alphabetical order. To make the unequivocal identification of a person easier, year and place of birth and death are provided where available, as are profession, nationality, the pseudonym under which the person was known, and finally, the sources used. The names of professions given in the source material have been translated into English especially for this encyclopaedia. In the second part, covering the volumes 10 to 16, the pseudonyms are listed alphabetically and the real names provided. Approx. 500,000 pseudonyms of about 270,000 persons First encyclopedia including pseudonyms from all over the world, all times and all occupations Essential research tool for anyone wishing to identify persons and names for his research within one single work

Chronology of the Works of Guillaume Dufay
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 213

Chronology of the Works of Guillaume Dufay

Although, according to the author, much sound research, has been done in the Dufay era in recent years," Charles Hamm's book marks the first time an attempt has been made at a comprehensive chronology of the works of this composer. Professor Hamm approaches all Dufay’s compositions from the point of view of mensural practice, and has been able to date each piece more precisely than would have been possible in a chronology based on manuscript studies or stylistic analyses. He has divided the works into nine groups, according to details of mensural usage, and on the basis of datable works and other evidence has suggested dates within which the pieces of each group were written. Based on his ...