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Ornamentation in baroque and post-baroque music : with special emphasis on J. S. Bach / Frederick Neumann.

Author/creator Neumann, Frederick
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoPrinceton : Princeton University Press, ©1978.
Descriptionxiv, 630 pages : music ; 29 cm
Subject(s)
Contents Baroque trends of ornamentation -- One-note graces -- The slide -- The trill -- The compound trill -- The mordent -- Other small ornaments -- Free ornamentation.
Abstract Ornaments play an enormous role in the music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and the ambiguities in their notation (as well as their frequent omission in the score) have left doubt as tohow composers intended them to be interpreted.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 605-613) and index.
LCCN 77072130

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