Performing Baroque Music

Listeners, performers, students and teachers will find here 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 for 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.

CONTENIDO

-List of musical examples
-List of tables
-List of figures
-Abbreviations
-Preface
1. Performance Practice and Baroque Sound
. The role of the performer in baroque music
. The sources and tools for studying baroque performance
. Baroque Sound
. Bibliographical notes
2. Tempo and Spirit
. Tempo mark and meter in baroque music
. Determining the appropriate spirit
. Affect and the aria
. Tempo in 17th century music
. The 18th century adagio
. Other baroque tempo marks
. The dances and their tempos
. Bibliographical notes
3. Dynamics
. Written and unwritten dynamic nuances in the 17th century
. Written and implied dynamics in 18th century music
. The relationship of dynamics to harmony
. Bibliographical notes
4. Pitch, Tuning, and Temperament
. The nonstandard nature of baroque pitches and temperaments
. Northern Germany, The background to Bach's pitches
. J. S. Bach's pitches
. Low pitches used in France
. Some high and low pitches in Italy
. Choosing a pitch for modern performance
. Equal and nonequal temperaments
. Bibliographical notes
5. The Basso Continuo
. Use and function of the continuo in the 17th century
. The choice of continuo instruments in French music
. The continuo instruments in Bach's music
. Realizine the continuo part
. Summary and modern considerations
. Bibliographical notes
6. Articulation
. Lully and 17th century French orchestral practice
. The emergence of solo styles of articulation in the 18th century
. Late baroque solo and orchestral playing
. Woodwind articulation
. Articulation in singing
. Keyboard articulation
. Summary: Choosing articulation
. Bibliographical notes
7. Rhythm and Notation
. The unmeasured prelude
. Declamation and recitative
. Other rhythmic alterations
. Summary and final thoughts
. Bibliographical notes
8. Ornamentation
. The early baroque period
. Italian ornamentation after 1660
. French ornamentation after 1660
. Vocal ornamentation
. J. S. Bach's ornamentation
. Bibliographical notes
-Appendix A: Guide to scores
-Appendix B: Bibliographies and general studies of performance practice
-Appendix C: Pre-1800 sources cited
-Appendix D: Credits for musical examples and tables
-Index