Author : Howard Mayer Brown
Release : 1990
Genre : Music
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 072/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Performance Practice: Music before 1600 by : Howard Mayer Brown
Download or read book Performance Practice: Music before 1600 written by Howard Mayer Brown. This book was released on 1990. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook, an entirely new work, is not simply another guide to the performance of music of the past; it is, rather, a book about the study of past performance. Each main section - Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Twentieth Century - contains an introduction dealing with contexts of performance as well as sources and theory. This is followed by detailed discussions of vocal and instrumental performance.
