Performance Practice
Volume 1
Published on 18. December 1989
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Hardback
300 pages
978-0-333-47403-7 (ISBN)
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"Parts of this material first published in The New Grove dictionary of music and musicians, edited by Stanley Sadie, 1980" -- Verso t.p.
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Howard Mayer Brown
Performance Practice
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12/1989
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VOLUME 1: PART 1 MEDIEVAL MUSIC Introduction (sources, theory, iconography, society, venues) Instruments Chant Secular Monophony Polyphony Unwritten traditions Interlude I: Musica ficta Tempo, proportions PART 2 RENAISSANCE MUSIC Introduction Instruments Sacred Polyphony Secular Polyphony Monophony Unwritten traditions Interlude II: Pitch Temperaments, tuning Fingering, articulation. VOLUME 2: PART 3 BAROQUE MUSIC Introduction Instruments Voices Notation and non-notation PART 4 CLASSICAL MUSIC Introduction Instruments Voices Ornamentation, improvisation PART 5 ROMANTIC MUSIC Introduction Instruments Voices PART 6 THE 20TH CENTURY 1900-40 1940-80 Index