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.

Comprehensive manual of performance practice for music in the 17th century

About the Author

Jeffery Kite-Powell is Professor Emeritus at the Florida State University College of Music. He is translator of Michael Praetorius's Syntagma Musicum III and editor of A Performer's Guide to Renaissance Music, Second Edition (IUP, 2007).

Stewart Carter is Chair of the Department of Music at Wake Forest University, Executive Editor of the Historic Brass Society Journal, and former Editor of Historical Performance: The Journal of Early Music America.

Reviews

[A] welcome update to a highly valuable resource for the study of performance practice, and should be a staple for any collection supporting a curriculum of music history and/or historically informed approaches to performing music of the seventeenth century.

* Music Reference Services Quarterly *

A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music is an invaluable resource for both students and professional musicians: it brings musicians up to date on musical research for the period; it helps performers to see the seventeenth-century as (almost) a separate era within the Baroque.

* Mu Phi Epsilon *

There's a vast amount of information here, and considerable wisdom. Those exploring 17th-century music should buy a copy.

* Early Music Review *

Full of interest, this performer's guide sometimes seems aimed at the listener and musical historian as much as the performer.

* Classical Music *



Book Information
ISBN 9780253357069
Author Jeffery Kite-Powell
Format Hardback
Page Count 560
Imprint Indiana University Press
Publisher Indiana University Press
Weight(grams) 907g