Essays in performance practice / by Frederick Neumann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Neumann, Frederick.

Series:

Studies in musicology ; no. 58.

Studies in musicology ; no. 58

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Interpretation (Phrasing, dynamics, etc.).

Music.

Music--Performance.

Embellishment (Music).

Physical Description:

xii, 321 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press, [1982]

Contents:

The use of baroque treatises on musical performance

Robert Donington's A performer's guide to baroque music, a review

The French inégales, Quantz and Bach

An answer to Robert Donington's critique of the preceding article

External evidence and uneven notes

The dotted note and the so-called French style

The question of rhythm in the two versions of Bach's French overture, BWV 831

Facts and fiction about overdotting

Once more the "French overture style"

The overdotting syndrome, anatomy of a delusion

Misconceptions about the French trill in the 17th and 18th centuries

A new look at Bach's ornamentation

Notes on "melodic" and "harmonic" ornaments

Couperin and the downbeat doctrine for appoggiaturas - Ornament and structure

The appoggiatura in Mozart's recitative.

Notes:

Previously published essays.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0835713512

OCLC:

8389760