Meter in Music, 1600-1800 Performance, Perception, and Notation / George Houle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Houle, George.

Series:

Music--scholarship and performance

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Takt.

Metriek.

Uitvoeringspraktijk.

Performance practice (Music).

Musical notation.

Musical meter and rhythm.

Musique--18e siecle--Interpretation.

Musique.

Musique--17e siecle--Interpretation.

Musique--Notation.

Musique--Mesure et rythme.

Performance practice (Music)--History--18th century.

Performance practice (Music)--History--17th century.

Genre:

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource ix, 174 pages) : illustrations).

Place of Publication:

Indiana University Press 1987

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1987.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

While the notation of 17th- and 18th-century music looks familiar, its meanings and the treatment of meter in performance have evolved dramatically. When performed according to the conventions of its own time, the music of 1600-1800 balances precision and flexibility, with an enchanting lilt, grace, and vitality. With many quotations and musical examples from theoretical treatises and instruction manuals of the period, Meter in Music is a practical guide to the performance of Baroque and early Classical music, with guidance on notes iňgales, fingerings, bowings, and woodwind tonguings.

Contents:

The origins of the measure in the seventeenth century

Time signatures in the eighteenth century

Rhythmopoeia: quantitative meters in poetry and music

Quantitas Intrinseca: the perception of meter

Articulation of quantitative meter

Accent as measure articulation and as measure definition.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-253-05551-2

OCLC:

1259586846