Readings in the history of music in performance / selected, translated, and edited by Carol MacClintock.
| Other author/creator | MacClintock, Carol, 1910-1989, compiler, translator, editor. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1979. |
| Description | xii, 432 pages : music ; 25 cm |
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| Contents | Part I: Before 1500: The late middle ages. From Tractatus de musica / Jerome of Moravia ; Treatise on discant / anonymous XIII -- The early Renaissance. From De modo bene cantandi / Conrad von Zabern ; Banquet of the oath of the pheasant / Olivier de la Marche -- Part II: The Renaissance: Music in daily life. From The Decameron / Giovanni Boccaccio ; From The Book of the Courtier / Baldassare Castiglione ; From Discorso sopra la musica / Vincenzo Giustiniani -- On singing and ornamentation. From Compendium Musices / Adrian Petit Coclico ; Letter on singing / Giovanni Camillo Maffei ; From Practica Musica / Hermann Finck ; From Prattica di Musica / Ludovico Zacconi -- Rules for performers and composers. From L'Antica Musica / Nicola Vicentino ; From Istitutioni Harmoniche / Gioseffo Zarlino ; From Il Transilvano / Girolamo Diruta ; From A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musick / Thomas Morley -- Part III: The seventeenth century: Music a gentleman's recreation. From The Compleat Gentleman / Henry Peacham ; From The Life of George Herbert / Izaak Walton ; From Memoirs of Music / Roger North -- Travelers' accounts of musical performances ; From Coryat's Crudities / Thomas Coryat ; Response to an inquisitive person on the Italian feeling about music / André Maugars -- On organ playing. From Conclusioni nel Suono dell' Organo / Adriano Banchieri ; Letter on style in organ playing / Agostino Agazzari ; Three prefaces / Girolamo Frescobaldi -- The performance of sacred music. From Parasceve ad Solemnitatem Evangelicam / Matthias Hoe von Hoenegg ; Preface to Historia der Auferstehung Jesu Christi / Heinrich Schütz ; From Syntagma Musicum, On arranging choirs / Michael Praetorius -- Tempo, tactus, and musical terms. From Syntagma Musicum, On choral music, On musical terms / Michael Praetorius ; From Harmonie Universelle, On beating the measure / Marin Mersenne ; From A Choice Collection of Lessons / Henry Purcell -- On singing. From Andreas Ornithoparcus his micrologus / John Dowland ; From Syntagma Musicum, Instruction for singers / Michael Praetorius ; From Harmonie universelle, How to train voices / Marin Mersenne -- Music for the theater. Four letters / Claudio Monteverdi ; From Rappresentazione di anima, et di corpo / Emilio de' Cavalieri ; Preface to Dafne / Marco da Gagliano ; From The Description of a Maske / Thomas Campion ; From "Trattato della musica scenica" / Giovanni Battista Doni -- On ballet. From Idées des spectacles anciens et nouveaux / Michel Depure -- |
| Contents | Part IV: The eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: Instructions for playing the clavecin. From Les Principes du Clavecin / Michel de Saint-Lambert ; From L'Art de Toucher le Clavecin / François Couperin ; From Pièces de Clavecin / Jean Philippe Rameau -- Opera: pro and con. From Histoire de la musique et de ses effets / Jacques Bonnet-Bourdelot ; Letter on the opera / Charles de Saint-Évremond ; From A General History of Music / Charles Burney ; From Lettres familières / Charles de Brosses -- The violin. From Musicall Grammarian and Other memoirs / Roger North ; From The Art of Playing on the Violin / Francesco Geminiani ; From Florilegium secundum / Georg Muffat -- The new instruction methods. From Essay on the True Art of Playing the Clavier / Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach ; From Versuch einer Anweisung die Flöte / Johann Joachim Quantz ; From Versuch einer gründliche Violinschule / Leopold Mozart ; From Clavierschule / Daniel Gottlob Türk -- The dance. From Letters on the Dance / Jean-Georges Noverre -- On vocal music. From Observations on the florid song / Pier. Francesco Tosi ; From Versuch einer Answeisung die Flöte: requirements of a good singer / Johann Joachim Quantz -- Travelers' reports. From Lettres familières / Charles de Brosses ; From The Present State of Music in France and Italy and The Present State of Music in Germany, the Netherlands and the United Provinces / Charles Burney -- On the performance of famous men. From "Bach the clavier player" / Johann Nikolaus Forkel ; From A General History of the Science and Practice of Music (Handel) / Sir John Hawkins ; Four letters / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; From "Recollections from my life" (Beethoven) / Carl Czerny ; From The life of Beethoven and Biographie von Ludwig van Beethoven / Anton Schindler -- Opinion and criticism. From An Essay on Musical Expression / Charles Avison ; From Observations on the present state of music, in London / William Jackson ; From Vertraute Briefe aus Paris / Johann Friedrich Reichardt ; From Voyage musical and À travers chants / Hector Berlioz. |
| Abstract | Readings on the performance of Western music from the late middle ages to the early nineteenth century describe the accepted conventions and actual practices of former times. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| LCCN | 78009511 |
| ISBN | 0253144957 |
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