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Lutes, Viols, Temperaments

Author : Lindley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521288835
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (888 download)

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Download or read book Lutes, Viols, Temperaments written by Lindley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984-06-14 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To tune a lute or viol really well one must see to the exact spacing of the frets tied round the neck of the instrument. In this authoritative work Mark Lindley surveys different approaches to the problem as described from the 1520s to the 1740s by a variety of writers. Attention is given to some distinguished composers (Milán, Dowland, Monteverdi, Marais) and to some seminal figures in the early history of modern science (V. Galilei, Mersenne, Lord Brouncker) as well as to a number of encyclopaedic or didactic writers on music (Gerle, Bermudo, Ganassi, Zarlino, Praetorius). The book includes practical instructions, conclusions about renaissance and baroque performing practices, and a substantial appendix by Gerhard C. Söhne on the historical use of proportions and geometric curves in lute design.

Lutes Viols Temperamts Cassettes

Author : Lindley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521262972
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Lutes Viols Temperamts Cassettes written by Lindley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985-01-31 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this authoritative work Mark Lindley surveys different approaches to the problem of tuning a lute or viol.

Lutes, Viols and Temperaments

Author : Mark Lindley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Lutes, Viols and Temperaments written by Mark Lindley and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Meantone Temperaments on Lutes and Viols

Author : David Dolata
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253021464
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Book Synopsis Meantone Temperaments on Lutes and Viols by : David Dolata

Download or read book Meantone Temperaments on Lutes and Viols written by David Dolata and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for musicians by a musician, Meantone Temperaments on Lutes and Viols demystifies tuning systems by providing the basic information, historical context, and practical advice necessary to easily achieve more satisfying tuning results on fretted instruments. Despite the overwhelming organological evidence that many of the finest lutenists, vihuelists, and viola da gamba players in the Renaissance and Baroque eras tuned their instruments in one of the meantone temperaments, most modern early instrument players today still tune to equal temperament. In this handbook richly supplemented with figures, diagrams, and music examples, historical performers will discover why temperaments are necessary and how they work, descriptions of a variety of temperaments, and their application on fretted instruments. This technical book provides downloadable audio tracks and other tools for fretted instrument players to achieve more stable consonances, colorful dissonances, and harmonic progressions that vividly propel the music forward.

Tuning and Temperament

Author : J. Murray Barbour
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486317358
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (863 download)

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Download or read book Tuning and Temperament written by J. Murray Barbour and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Performing Baroque Music

Author : Mary Cyr
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351554646
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Performing Baroque Music written by Mary Cyr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Listeners, performers, students and teachers will find here the analytical tools they need to understand and interpret musical evidence from the baroque era. Scores for eleven works, many reproduced in facsimile to illustrate the conventions of 17th and 18th century notation, are included for close study. Readers will find new material on continuo playing, as well as extensive treatment of singing and French music. The book is also a concise guide to reference materials in the field of baroque performance practice with extensive annotated bibliographies of modern and baroque sources that guide the reader toward further study. First published by Ashgate (at that time known as Scolar Press) in 1992 and having been out of print for some years, this title is now available as a print on demand title.

John Dowland

Author : K. Dawn Grapes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351580515
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book John Dowland written by K. Dawn Grapes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-02 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Dowland: A Research and Information Guide offers the first comprehensive guide to the musical works and literature on one of the major composers of the English Renaissance. Including a catalog of works, discography of recordings, extensive annotated bibliography of secondary sources, and substantial indexes, this volume is a major reference tool for all those interested in Dowland's works and place in music history, and a valuable resource for researchers of Renaissance and English music.

The Monteverdi Vespers of 1610 : Music, Context, Performance

Author : Jeffrey Kurtzman
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191590711
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book The Monteverdi Vespers of 1610 : Music, Context, Performance written by Jeffrey Kurtzman and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2000-01-06 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a thorough-going study of Monteverdi's Vespers, the single most significant and most widely known musical print from before the time of J.S. Bach. The author examines Monteverdi's Vespers from multiple perspectives, combining his own research with all that is known and thought of the Vespers by other scholars. The historical origin as well as the musical and liturgical context of the Vespers are surveyed; similarly the controversial historiography of the Vespers in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is scrutinized and evaluated. A series of analytical chapters attempt to clarify Monteverdi's compositional process and the relationship between music and text in the light of recent research on modal and tonal aspects of early seventeenth century music. The final section is devoted to thirteen chapters investigating performance practice issues of the early seventeenth century and their application to the Vespers, including general and specific recommendations for performance where appropriate. The book concludes with a series of informational appendices, including the psalm cursus for Vespers of all major feasts in the liturgical calendar, texts, and structural outlines for the Vespers compositions based on a cantus firmus, an analytical discography, and bibliographies of seventeenth-century musical and theoretical sources.

Style and Performance for Bowed String Instruments in French Baroque Music

Author : Mary Cyr
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317048814
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Style and Performance for Bowed String Instruments in French Baroque Music by : Mary Cyr

Download or read book Style and Performance for Bowed String Instruments in French Baroque Music written by Mary Cyr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Cyr addresses the needs of researchers, performers, and informed listeners who wish to apply knowledge about historically informed performance to specific pieces. Special emphasis is placed upon the period 1680 to 1760, when the viol, violin, and violoncello grew to prominence as solo instruments in France. Part I deals with the historical background to the debate between the French and Italian styles and the features that defined French style. Part II summarizes the present state of research on bowed string instruments (violin, viola, cello, contrebasse, pardessus de viole, and viol) in France, including such topics as the size and distribution of parts in ensembles and the role of the contrebasse. Part III addresses issues and conventions of interpretation such as articulation, tempo and character, inequality, ornamentation, the basse continue, pitch, temperament, and "special effects" such as tremolo and harmonics. Part IV introduces four composer profiles that examine performance issues in the music of Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, Marin Marais, Jean-Baptiste Barrière, and the Forquerays (father and son). The diversity of compositional styles among this group of composers, and the virtuosity they incorporated in their music, generate a broad field for discussing issues of performance practice and offer opportunities to explore controversial themes within the context of specific pieces.

A Guide to Musical Temperament

Author : Thomas Donahue
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810854383
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (543 download)

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Download or read book A Guide to Musical Temperament written by Thomas Donahue and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Thomas Donahue assembles new information and material from previous sources, providing a comprehensive outline of theories and a historical overview that fills a neglected niche in music and keyboard reference."--Jacket.

How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care)

Author : Ross W. Duffin
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393075648
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care) written by Ross W. Duffin and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008-10-17 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A fascinating and genuinely accessible guide....Educating, enjoyable, and delightfully unscary."—Classical Music What if Bach and Mozart heard richer, more dramatic chords than we hear in music today? What sonorities and moods have we lost in playing music in "equal temperament"—the equal division of the octave into twelve notes that has become our standard tuning method? Thanks to How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony, "we may soon be able to hear for ourselves what Beethoven really meant when he called B minor 'black'" (Wall Street Journal).In this "comprehensive plea for more variety in tuning methods" (Kirkus Reviews), Ross W. Duffin presents "a serious and well-argued case" (Goldberg Magazine) that "should make any contemporary musician think differently about tuning" (Saturday Guardian). Some images in the ebook are not displayed owing to permissions issues.

Temperament

Author : Stuart Isacoff
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307560511
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Temperament written by Stuart Isacoff and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-01-16 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few music lovers realize that the arrangement of notes on today’s pianos was once regarded as a crime against God and nature, or that such legendary thinkers as Pythagoras, Plato, da Vinci, Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Newton and Rousseau played a role in the controversy. Indeed, from the time of the Ancient Greeks through the eras of Renaissance scientists and Enlightenment philosophers, the relationship between the notes of the musical scale was seen as a key to the very nature of the universe. In this engaging and accessible account, Stuart Isacoff leads us through the battles over that scale, placing them in the context of quarrels in the worlds of art, philosophy, religion, politics and science. The contentious adoption of the modern tuning system known as equal temperament called into question beliefs that had lasted nearly two millenia–and also made possible the music of Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Debussy, and all who followed. Filled with original insights, fascinating anecdotes, and portraits of some of the greatest geniuses of all time, Temperament is that rare book that will delight the novice and expert alike.

Treatise on Harpsichord Tuning

Author : Jean Denis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521314022
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Treatise on Harpsichord Tuning written by Jean Denis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987-04-09 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A translation of Jean Denis's Treatise on Harpsichord Tuning (1643/50), with notes and an introduction.

The Performance of Italian Basso Continuo

Author : Giulia Nuti
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351541609
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book The Performance of Italian Basso Continuo written by Giulia Nuti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basso continuo accompaniment calls upon a complex tapestry of harmonic, rhythmic, compositional, analytical and improvisational skills. The evolving knowledge that underpinned the performance of basso continuo was built up and transmitted from the late 1500s to the second half of the eighteenth century, when changes in instruments together with the assertion of control by composers over their works brought about its demise. By tracing the development of basso continuo over time and across the regions of Italy where differing practices emerged, Giulia Nuti accesses this body of musical usage. Sources include the music itself, introductions and specific instructions and requirements in song books and operas, contemporary accounts of performances and, in the later period of basso continuo, description and instruction offered in theoretical treatises. Changes in instruments and instrumental usage and the resulting sounds available to composers and performers are considered, as well as the altering relationship between the improvising continuo player and the composer. Extensive documentation from both manuscript and printed sources, some very rare and others better known, in the original language, followed by a precise English translation, is offered in support of the arguments. There are also many musical examples, transcribed and in facsimile. Giulia Nuti provides both a scholarly account of the history of basso continuo and a performance-driven interpretation of how this music might be played.

Performance Practice

Author : Roland Jackson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136767703
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Performance Practice written by Roland Jackson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performance practice is the study of how music was performed over the centuries, both by its originators (the composers and performers who introduced the works) and, later, by revivalists. This first of its kind Dictionary offers entries on composers, musiciansperformers, technical terms, performance centers, musical instruments, and genres, all aimed at elucidating issues in performance practice. This A-Z guide will help students, scholars, and listeners understand how musical works were originally performed and subsequently changed over the centuries. Compiled by a leading scholar in the field, this work will serve as both a point-of-entry for beginners as well as a roadmap for advanced scholarship in the field.

Institution Harmonique

Author : Salomon de Caus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Institution Harmonique written by Salomon de Caus and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tonal Space in the Music of Antonio Vivaldi

Author : Bella Brover-Lubovsky
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253028035
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Tonal Space in the Music of Antonio Vivaldi written by Bella Brover-Lubovsky and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2008-06-25 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tonal Space in the Music of Antonio Vivaldi incorporates an analytical study of Vivaldi's style into a more general exploration of harmonic and tonal organization in the music of the late Italian Baroque. The harmonic and tonal language of Vivaldi and his contemporaries, full of curious links between traditional modal thinking and what would later be considered common-practice major-minor tonality, directly reflects the historical circumstances of the shifting attitude toward the conceptualization of tonal space so crucial to Western art music. Vivaldi is examined in a completely new context, allowing both his prosaic and idiosyncratic sides to emerge clearly. This book contributes to a better understanding of Vivaldi's individual style, while illuminating wider processes of stylistic development and the diffusion of artistic ideas in the 18th century.