A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music, Second Edition

Contents

• List of Illustrations
• Octave Designation Chart
• Preface to the Second Edition \ Jeffery Kite-Powell
• Preface to the First Edition \ Stewart Carter
• Acknowledgments
• Part 1. Vocal/Choral Issues
• 1. National Singing Styles \ Sally Sanford
• 2. The Bel Canto Singing Style \ Julianne Baird
• 3. Choral Music in France and England \ Anne Harrington Heider
• 4. Choral Music in Italy and the Germanic Lands \ Gary Towne
• Part 2. Wind, String, and Percussion Instruments
• 5. Woodwinds \ Herbert Myers
• 6. Cornett and Sackbut \ Bruce Dickey
• 7. Trombone \ Stewart Carter
• 8. Trumpet and Horn \ Steven E. Plank
• 9. Percussion and Timpani \ John Michael Cooper
• 10. The Violin: Technique and Style \ David Douglass
• 11. Historical Approaches to Playing the Violin \ Julie Andrijeski
• 12. The Viola da Gamba Family \ Stuart Cheney with Barbara Coeyman
• 13. Violoncello and Violone \ Marc Vanscheeuwijck
• 14. Keyboard Instruments \ Mark Kroll
• 15. Plucked String Instruments \ Paul O'Dette
• Part 3. Performance Practice and Practical Considerations
• 16. Ornamentation in Early Seventeenth-Century Italian Music \ Bruce Dickey
• 17. Basso Continuo \ Jack Ashworth and Paul O'Dette
• 18. Meter and Tempo \ George Houle
• 19. Tuning and Temperament \ Herbert Myers
• 20. Pitch and Transposition \ Herbert Myers
• Part 4. The Seventeenth-Century Stage
• 21. Dance \ Dorothy Olsson
• 22. Theatrical Productions \ James Middleton
• Appendix A. List of Names and Dates
• Appendix B. A Performer's Guide to Medieval Music: Contents
• Appendix C. A Performer's Guide to Renaissance Music: Contents
• Bibliography
• List of Contributors
• Index