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The Interpretation of the Music of the 17th and 18th Centuries by Arnold Dolmetsch ISBN: 0486442756 Dover Publications Price: $24.95 click here to see this book This 1915 study remains a landmark of musicology, offering not only a text on performance practices of the baroque but also glimpses of what music meant — both as an art and a science — to musicians of the period. Topics include tempo, rhythm, ornamentation, wrist positioning and fingering, instruments of the era, more. Unabridged republication of The Interpretation of the Music of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Novello & Co., London, 1946. Table of Contents for The Interpretation of the Music of the 17th and 18th Centuries Introduction Chapter I. Expression Chapter II. Tempo Section I. Section II. The Tempo of Dance Movements Chapter III. Conventional Alterations of Rhythm Sections I.-II. Chapter IV. Ornamentation Section I. The Appoggiatura Section II. The Shake or Trill Section III. The Tremolo, Close Shake Section IV. Mordent, Beat. Open Shake, Sweetening Section V. The Turn, Single Relish Section VI. The Slide, Elevation, Double Backfall, Wholefall, Slur, Bearing Section VII. The Springer (or Spinger). Accent. Acute. Sigh Section VIII. The "Anschlag" or Doppelsvorschlag Section IX. The Arpeggio. Battery. Broken Chord Section X. Expressive Rests Section XI. Tempo Rubato Section XII. Acciaccatura, Pincé Étouffé Zusammenschlag, Tatto Section XIII. Compound Ornaments Section XIV. Divisions Chapter V. Figured Basses Chapter VI. Position and Fingering Chapter VII. The Musical Instruments of the Period Section I. The Virginals Section II. The Clavichord Section III. The Organ Section IV. The Lute Section V. The Viols Section VI. The Viola d'amore Section VII. The Violins Section VIII. The Wood-Wind Instruments Section IX. The Brass Instruments Section X. Combinations of Instruments Appendix Music Examples Orlando Gibbons A Prelude Jean Francois d'Andrieu Quatrienne Suite Francois Couperin Premier Prelude Francois Couperin Second Prelude Francois Couperin Quatrienne Prelude Johann Sebastian Bach Praeludium Johann Sebastian Bach Fughetta Johann Sebastian Bach Marche C. Ph. E. Bach Sonata VI in F Minor La Pere Engramelle La Marche du Roy (La Tonotechnie) La Pere Engramelle Idem (more varied) La Pere Engramelle Menuet de Zelindor Claude Balbastre Romance Arcangelo Corelli 1st Movement from Sonata VI, Op. 5 Arcangelo Corelli 4th Movement from Sonata VI, Op. 5 J.J. Quantz Adagio in the Italian Style

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