The interpretation of the music of the 17th and 18th Centuries

This 1915 study remains a landmark of musicology, offering not only a text on performance practices of the baroque but also glimpses of what music meant ? both as an art and a science ? to musicians of the period. Topics include tempo, rhythm, ornamentation, wrist positioning and fingering, instruments of the era, more.

CONTENIDO

Introduction
Chapter I. Expression
Chapter II. Tempo
-Section I.
-Section II. The Tempo of Dance Movements
Chapter III. Conventional Alterations of Rhythm
-Sections I.-II.
Chapter IV. Ornamentation
-Section I. The Appoggiatura
-Section II. The Shake or Trill
-Section III. The Tremolo, Close Shake
-Section IV. Mordent, Beat. Open Shake, Sweetening
-Section V. The Turn, Single Relish
-Section VI. The Slide, Elevation, Double Backfall, Wholefall, Slur, Bearing
-Section VII. The Springer (or Spinger). Accent. Acute. Sigh
-Section VIII. The "Anschlag" or Doppelsvorschlag
-Section IX. The Arpeggio. Battery. Broken Chord
-Section X. Expressive Rests
-Section XI. Tempo Rubato
-Section XII. Acciaccatura, Pincé Étouffé Zusammenschlag, Tatto
-Section XIII. Compound Ornaments
-Section XIV. Divisions
Chapter V. Figured Basses
Chapter VI. Position and Fingering
Chapter VII. The Musical Instruments of the Period
-Section I. The Virginals
-Section II. The Clavichord
-Section III. The Organ
-Section IV. The Lute
-Section V. The Viols
-Section VI. The Viola d'amore
-Section VII. The Violins
-Section VIII. The Wood-Wind Instruments
-Section IX. The Brass Instruments
-Section X. Combinations of Instruments
Appendix
Music Examples
-Orlando Gibbons: A Prelude
-Jean Francois d'Andrieu: Quatrienne Suite
-Francois Couperin: Premier Prelude
-Francois Couperin: Second Prelude
-Francois Couperin: Quatrienne Prelude
-Johann Sebastian Bach: Praeludium
-Johann Sebastian Bach: Fughetta
-Johann Sebastian Bach: Marche
-C. Ph. E. Bach: Sonata VI in F Minor
-La Pere Engramelle: La Marche du Roy (La Tonotechnie)
-La Pere Engramelle: Idem (more varied)
-La Pere Engramelle: Menuet de Zelindor
-Claude Balbastre: Ro
-Arcangelo Corelli: 1st Movement from Sonata VI, Op. 5
-Arcangelo Corelli: 4th Movement from Sonata VI, Op. 5
-J.J. Quantz: Adagio in the Italian Style