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Introduction to playing baroque string music from the 16th to 18th centuries. Required reading for students, professionals and amateurs. Based on historical sources, covers all topics such as articulation, bow-hold, vibrato, style, dance, fingering choice, bow strokes, tempo, tuning, harmony

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A really remarkable book which combines a huge range of scholarly information with being delightfully readable and entertaining ... how to achieve expressiveness within a suitable historical style ... here is every baroque player's companion. Irresistible ... well beyond the value of the price.News and Views (European String Teachers' Association) ... indispensable. A practical, comprehensive yet easily accessible guide from someone with a wealth of experience of baroque performance ... a valuable source of reference both for the string player new to baroque style and performance and for the experienced.Early Music Review She aims to re-launch a spirit of discovery in historical performance, while recognising that theorists' rules should never obscure artistry, taste and musical intelligence ... A stimulating, rounded and thoroughly readable book, which should inspire period players to re-examine their approach to historical performance.The Strad An ideal treatise not only for baroque bowing but for so many other facets of baroque practice which I have hardly ever seen in books on the subject.The late Sir Charles Mackerras, who used to recommend this book to his conducting students.

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