Overview

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.

Full Product Details

Author:   Jeffery Kite-Powell ,  Sally Sanford ,  Stewart Carter ,  Julianne C. Baird
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Edition:   2nd New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 4.10cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.907kg
ISBN:  

9780253357069

ISBN 10:   0253357063
Pages:   560
Publication Date:   21 March 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Octave Designation Chart Preface to the Second Edition \ Jeffery Kite-Powell Preface to the First Edition \ Stewart Carter Acknowledgments Part 1. Vocal/Choral Issues 1. National Singing Styles \ Sally Sanford 2. The Bel Canto Singing Style \ Julianne Baird 3. Choral Music in France and England \ Anne Harrington Heider 4. Choral Music in Italy and the Germanic Lands \ Gary Towne Part 2. Wind, String, and Percussion Instruments 5. Woodwinds \ Herbert Myers 6. Cornett and Sackbut \ Bruce Dickey 7. Trombone \ Stewart Carter 8. Trumpet and Horn \ Steven E. Plank 9. Percussion and Timpani \ John Michael Cooper 10. The Violin: Technique and Style \ David Douglass 11. Historical Approaches to Playing the Violin \ Julie Andrijeski 12. The Viola da Gamba Family \ Stuart Cheney with Barbara Coeyman 13. Violoncello and Violone \ Marc Vanscheeuwijck 14. Keyboard Instruments \ Mark Kroll 15. Plucked String Instruments \ Paul O'Dette Part 3. Performance Practice and Practical Considerations 16. Ornamentation in Early Seventeenth-Century Italian Music \ Bruce Dickey 17. Basso Continuo \ Jack Ashworth and Paul O'Dette 18. Meter and Tempo \ George Houle 19. Tuning and Temperament \ Herbert Myers 20. Pitch and Transposition \ Herbert Myers Part 4. The Seventeenth-Century Stage 21. Dance \ Dorothy Olsson 22. Theatrical Productions \ James Middleton Appendix A. List of Names and Dates Appendix B. A Performer's Guide to Medieval Music: Contents Appendix C. A Performer's Guide to Renaissance Music: Contents Bibliography List of Contributors Index

Reviews

<p> This new edition of Schirmer's A Performer's Guide toSeventeenth-Century Music is an invaluable resource for both amateur andprofessional performers as well as scholars and anyone else interested in thefascinating world of seventeenth-century music. Stewart Carter's original volume, published only in a limited edition, has been significantly enhanced by JefferyKite-Powell through the addition of three new chapters on the trombone, thevioloncello and violone, and historical approaches to playing the violin; by updatesto the bibliography and fifteen of the nineteen original chapters; and by three newappendices listing the names and dates of everyone mentioned in the text andcross-referencing Schirmer's Performer's Guides to Medieval and Renaissance Music.Equally useful are the inclusion of numerous references to internet websites of botha general and specific nature by the editor and in many of the updated chapters. --Jeffrey Kurtzman, Professor of Music, Washington University in St

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 [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 This volume fills a very real need, and fills it beautifully...A range of eminent scholars and practitioners introduce us to the music [of the seventeenth century], its instruments, and its performance, and bring us up to date on the latest in research and scholarship. It is a book for all serious musicians. -Thomas Forrest Kelly, Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music, Harvard University This new edition...is an invaluable resource for both amateur and professional performers as well as scholars and anyone else interested in the fascinating world of seventeenth-century music. Stewart Carter's original volume...has been significantly enhanced by Jeffery Kite-Powell.-Jeffrey Kurtzman, Professor of Music, Washington University in St. Louis -Jeffrey Kurtzman, Professor of Music, Washington University in St. Louis This welcome new edition is bigger, better, and more up to date in both discussion and resources cited. It helps the seventeenth century to emerge-deservedly-as almost a separate era within the Baroque, and the chapters by so many outstanding scholar-performers make it altogether indispensible! -Ross W. Duffin, Fynette H. Kulas Professor of Music, Case Western Reserve University

Author Information

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.

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