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Style and Performance for Bowed String Instruments in French Baroque Music. 9781409405696

Style and Performance for Bowed String Instruments in French Baroque Music

Ashgate Publishing. 2012

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  • EAN: 9781409405696
  • ISBN: 978-1-4094-0569-6
  • Editorial: Ashgate Publishing
  • Fecha de edición: 2012
  • Encuadernación: Cartoné con sobrecubierta
  • Dimensiones: 24x15
  • Idioma: Inglés
  • Nº páginas: 280

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Mary Cyr addresses the needs of researchers, performers, and informed listeners who wish to apply knowledge about historically informed performance to specific pieces. Special emphasis is placed upon the period 1680 to 1760, when the viol, violin, and violoncello grew to prominence as solo instruments in France.

Part I deals with the historical background to the debate between the French and Italian styles and the features that defined French style. Part II summarizes the present state of research on bowed string instruments (violin, viola, cello, contrebasse, pardessus de viole, and viol) in France, including such topics as the size and distribution of parts in ensembles and the role of the contrebasse. Part III addresses issues and conventions of interpretation such as articulation, tempo and character, inequality, ornamentation, the basse continue, pitch, temperament, and "special effects" such as tremolo and harmonics. Part IV introduces four composer profiles that examine performance issues in the music of Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, Marin Marais, Jean-Baptiste Barrière, and the Forquerays (father and son). The diversity of compositional styles among this group of composers, and the virtuosity they incorporated in their music, generate a broad field for discussing issues of performance practice and offer opportunities to explore controversial themes within the context of specific pieces.

CONTENIDO:

List of Figures
List of Music Examples
Abbreviations
Preface
Acknowledgements

- Part I: Sources and Style in French Baroque Music

1.- Historical Context, Musical Works, and Performance
Introduction
Playing from Facsimiles
The Text and What It Represents
Secondary Sources on Baroque Performance Practice
The Historical Context for Studying French Baroque Music
Performance Practice Issues Specific to French Baroque Music
Style in French Baroque Music for Bowed String Instruments

2.- French and Italian Musical Style: The Great Divide
François Raguenet (1702) on French and Italian Musical Style
Charles de Brosses?s Observations on Italian Music (1739-1740)
Ancelet?s Observations (1757) on Instrumental Music
Concluding Remarks

- Part II: Bowed String Instruments in French Ensembles

3.- Strings in French Ensembles
Viols and Violins in Seventeenth-Century France
The Inner Parts (parties de remplissage) in French String Ensembles
The petit choeur and grand choeur in French Ensembles

4.- Bass Instruments of the Violin and Viol Families in Solo and Ensemble Roles
The basse de violon
The Viols
The contrebasse
Concluding Remarks

- Part III: Interpretation and Style in French Music for String Players

5.- Articulation
Georg Muffat and French Orchestral Practice
Bowing for Solo Playing
Violoncello Bowing for Solo and Ensemble Playing
Chamber Music Bowing in Combinations with Violins and Viols

6.- Tempo, Character, and Inequality
Tempo and Character
Inequality

7.- Ornamentation and Special Effects
French Ornament Signs and Their Interpretation
Special Effects

8.- Basse Continue, Pitch, and Temperament
Realizing the basse continue
When Not to Play: Silencing the basse continue
Baroque and French Pitches: Where is the A?
Using Historical Temperaments

- Part IV: Composer Profiles

9.- Marin Marais: Viol Player, Composer, and Teacher extraordinaire
Marais?s Life and Career
Sources of Marais?s Music
Marais?s Music as Interpreted by an Eighteenth-Century Viol Player
Concluding Remarks

10.- Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre?s Violin Sonatas: What the Sources Do (and Do Not) Tell Us
Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre: a Brief Biography
Jacquet de La Guerre?s Association with Sébastien de Brossard
Sources for Jacquet de La Guerre?s Sonatas
Performing Jacquet de La Guerre?s Sonatas
Concluding Remarks

11.- Jean-Baptiste Barrière, Virtuoso French Cellist and Composer
The Cello and Cellists in Early Eighteenth-Century France
Jean-Baptiste Barrière: a Short Biography
Barrière?s Cello Music
Barrière?s Music for pardessus de viole and Harpsichord
Concluding Remarks

12.- Forqueray?s Pieces de viole avec la Basse Continuë: Authorship and Performance Issues
Antoine Forqueray le père: a Brief Biography
Jean-Baptiste Forqueray, le fils: a Brief Biography
Musical Tributes to the Forquerays
Forqueray?s Dedicatees
Which Forqueray?
Performance Issues in the Viol Music
Concluding Remarks

Bibliography
Index



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