Style and Performance for Bowed String Instruments in French Baroque Music
- Author: Cyr, Mary
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Contents
- Contents: Preface
- Part I Sources and Style in French Baroque Music: Historical context, musical works, and performance
- French and Italian musical style: the great divide. Part II Bowed String Instruments in French Ensembles: Strings in French ensembles
- Bass instruments of the violin and viol families in solo and ensemble roles. Part III Interpretation and Style in French Music for String Players: Articulation
- Tempo, character, and inequality
- Ornamentation and special effects
- Basse Continue, pitch and temperament. Part IV Composer Profiles: Marin Marais: viol player, composer, and teacher extraordinaire
- A%olisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre's violin sonatas: what the sources do (and do not) tell us
- Jean-Baptiste BarriAre, virtuoso French cellist and composer
- Forqueray's Pieces de viol avec la Basse ContinuA": authorship and performance issues
- Bibliography
- Index.