Overview
""Performing Baroque Music"" is a practical guide to the important issues that arise when one performs baroque music. Listeners, performers, students and teachers will find here, carefully explained and thoroughly documented, 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 or 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. Mary Cyr's work contributes to our understanding of the creation of baroque sound and to the shared goal of effective and ejoyable performance.
Full Product Details
Author: Mary Cyr
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Scolar Press
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Width: 18.50cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 26.40cm
Weight: 0.884kg
ISBN: 9780859679602
ISBN 10: 0859679608
Pages: 254
Publication Date: 28 August 2011
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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General/trade
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
’Mary Cyr's wide experience shines through the succinctness of this very manageable guide to baroque performance practice. Essential materials are excellently chosen, and skillfully cogent bibliographies to each chapter inform readers of what to read if they wish to know more.....Chapters are arranged by clearly defined topics so that the reader can easily dip in according to his needs.....it should win many friends as a right-minded, 90s view of where we are at’. Richard Langham Smith, The Musical Times
'Mary Cyr's wide experience shines through the succinctness of this very manageable guide to baroque performance practice. Essential materials are excellently chosen, and skillfully cogent bibliographies to each chapter inform readers of what to read if they wish to know more...Chapters are arranged by clearly defined topics so that the reader can easily dip in according to his needs...it should win many friends as a right-minded, 90s view of where we are at'. Richard Langham Smith, The Musical Times
Author Information
Mary Cyr is Professor of Music, Emerita, at the University of Guelph, Canada.
