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Contents
- Foreword
- Introductory quotes
- Questions and Answers
- Part Three
- Approaching the Early Seventeenth Century Italian Sonata
- Lesson Twenty-Four. Stepping Back in Time: Division Manuals 1535-1624. Ornamentation, Module Two
- Divisions - Learning to Dare: Developing Basic Improvisational Skills - Sylvestro Ganassi's 'Fontegara' (Venice, 1535) - Studying Divisions from Ganassi's 'Fontegara' - Learning to Read Sixteenth and Seventeenth-century Music from Facsimiles - Note Values
- A Florentine Interlude. Towards 'The New Music:' from Plato to Caccini
- Lesson Twenty-Five. The Noble Manner of Singing: Caccini's 'Le Nuove Musiche' (1602)
- Passaggi - Three ways to Sing a Note - The Intonatio - Con Grazia - The Esclamazione - Transferring Caccini's 'Cor mio, deh! non languire' to the Violin - The Trillo and the Gruppo - Transferring the Vocal Trillo to the Violin - The Gruppo - Transferring
- Lesson Twenty-Six. A Lesson from Francesco Rognoni Taeggio: Applying Vocal Technique to the Violin
- El Portar della Voce - The Accento - The Tremolo - The Groppo - Del principiar sotto la nota - The Esclamatione - La Selva, Part Two - Francesco Rognoni's 'Way of slurring' -
- Lesson Twenty-Seven. Giovanni Battista Fontana (1589 (?) - 1630) Sonata Terza
- The Tactus - Reading this Sonata in the Original Notation Clefs - Rests - Coloration - Tempo Relationships and Proportional Notation.
- Lesson Twenty-Eight. Dario Castello: Sonata Prima, for Soprano Solo
- Lesson Twenty-Nine. Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli: Sonata Quarta Opus 4, La Biancuccia
- 'Stylus Phantasticus' - Musica Ficta.
- Lesson Thirty: Ornamentation, Module Three, including Tables of Ornaments Derived from the Sonatas of Corelli and Babell
- A Roman Interlude: Transforming Visual Gestures into Sound
- Part Four
- Church Militant: The Sonatas of Schmelzer and Biber
- Lesson Thirty-One. Johann Heinrich Schmelzer: Sonata Quarta from 'Sonatae unarum fidium' (1664)
- Lesson Thirty-Two. Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: the Mystery Sonatas. Sonata No 1: the Annunciation
- The Mystery Sonatas: an Introduction - Reference to the Texts.
- Lesson Thirty-Three. Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: the Mystery Sonatas. Sonata No 10: The Crucifixion
- Scordatura - Symbolism and the Jesuits - The Rhetorical Fragments Described.
- Part Five
- Supreme Refinement of the Human Spirit
- Francois Couperin and the Music of France
- Interlude in Versailles: Approaching the Music of the French Baroque
- The Sun King and the Culture of Versailles - The Social Status of the Violin in France.
- Lesson Thirty-Four. The 'Concerts Royaux' of Francois Couperin. Ornamentation, Module Four
- The 'Concerts Royaux,' an Introduction - Couperin's Agremens, as found in the Septieme Concert Royal - The Tremblement - The Pince - The Port de voix - The Tierce de coule - The comma (petit silence) - Notes inegales - Slurs - Pitch - Addendum: The Double
- Lesson Thirty-Five. To Soothe the Sorrows of a King. Francois Couperin: Septieme Concert Royal (I)
- Movement One (no title) - Allemande, Gayement - Postscript: Dynamic and Rhythmical inegalite, a Personal View.
- Lesson Thirty-Six. Francois Couperin: Septieme Concert Royal (II)
- Sarabande Grave - Georg Muffat on Lully's Bowings.
- Lesson Thirty-Seven. Francois Couperin: Septieme Concert Royal (III)
- Fuguete - Gavote - Siciliene.
- Part Six
- Approaching the Galant
- Lesson Thirty-Eight. Beyond 'Beautiful': Searching for Meaning in Music. Handel: Sonata in A Major
- Beautiful Sights and Beautiful Sounds - Handel and Mattheson - Der Vollkommene Capellmeister - Identifying Affects in the Handel Sonata Movement - Punctuation.
- Lesson Thirty-Nine. Into the Galant: Tartini, Telemann, Quantz and Zuccari. Ornamentation Module Five
- Tartini: Grace notes - Trills - Vibrato (Tremolo) - The Turn - The Mordent - Cadences. Telemann's Methodical Sonatas. Telemann's Ornaments: Rising and falling appoggiaturas - Trills - Passing notes - Harmonising ornaments - Turns - Rhythmic variation - Or
- Part Seven
- J.S. Bach
- Lesson Forty. A Brief History of Baroque Romanticism: Bach's 'Sei Solo'
- Lesson Forty-One. Johann Sebastian Bach, Sonata I, BWV 1001. Adagio
- Bach's Written-out Ornamentation - The Necessity of Illusion - A Controversial Note - Afterthought.
- Lesson Forty-Two. Johann Sebastian Bach, Sonata I, BWV 1001. Fuga
- A Note on Resonance
- Lesson Forty-Three. Johann Sebastian Bach, Sonata I, BWV 1001. Siciliana
- Hooked Bowings
- Lesson Forty-Four. Johann Sebastian Bach, Sonata I, BWV 1001. Presto
- Bach and Rhetoric - On Slow practice.
- Lesson Forty-Five. Intonation in Bach's 'Sei Solo.'
- The Training of the Ear - Intonation Analysis - Learning to hear quickly - The Training of the Left Hand - Playing Chords: the Left Hand
- Lesson Forty-Six. Johann Sebastian Bach, Partita III in E Major, BWV 1006. Preludio
- Interlude: Bach and the Influence of French Culture in the German Lands
- Bach and Dance
- Lesson Forty-Seven. Johann Sebastian Bach: Partita III in E Major, BWV 1006
- Loure
- Tempo and Bowings in Bach's Loure - Punctuation and Articulation in Dance Movements - Punctuation and Articulation in Bach's Loure - Ornamentation in Bach's Dances.
- Lesson Forty-Eight. Johann Sebastian Bach. Partita III in E Major, BWV 1006. Gavotte en Rondeaux
- Lesson Forty-Nine. Johann Sebastian Bach. Partita III in E Major, BWV 1006. Minuets I and II
- Lesson Fifty. Johann Sebastian. Bach. Partita III in E Major, BWV 1006. Bouree and Giga
- Notes to Lessons
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgements