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A performer's guide to Baroque music / Robert Donington.

By: Donington, Robert [author].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Faber and Faber, 1973 [1978]Description: 320 pages : music ; 26 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0571097979 (hardback).Subject(s): Performance practice (Music) -- History -- 17th century | Performance practice (Music) -- History -- 18th century | Style, MusicalDDC classification: 781.4309032
Contents:
Composer and performer -- Feeling in Baroque music -- The text and the performer -- Style and the performer -- Sound and sense -- The choice of instruments --The use of instruments -- The voice -- Strings -- Wind and percussion -- Keyboards -- The problem of accidentals -- The treatment of accidentals -- Ornamentation -- Ornaments -- Accompaniment -- Tempo -- Rhythm -- Punctuation -- Dynamics -- Then and now.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Barcode
General lending MTU Cork School of Music Library Store 781.4309032 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 00205438
General lending MTU Cork School of Music Library Lending 781.4309032 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00168692
General lending MTU Cork School of Music Library Lending 781.4309032 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00177622
Total holds: 0

Reading list: pages301-306.

Includes index

Composer and performer -- Feeling in Baroque music -- The text and the performer -- Style and the performer -- Sound and sense -- The choice of instruments --The use of instruments -- The voice -- Strings -- Wind and percussion -- Keyboards -- The problem of accidentals -- The treatment of accidentals -- Ornamentation -- Ornaments -- Accompaniment -- Tempo -- Rhythm -- Punctuation -- Dynamics -- Then and now.