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1	Baroque Music: Style and Performance, a Handbook more books like this by Robert Donington add to wishlist Donington, RobertDESCRIP_ALLOWED see all copies from $8.00! new only from $11.78! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Singing in Style: A Guide to Vocal Performance Practices more books like this by Ms. Martha Elliott add to wishlist The first historical overview of vocal performance practice and style ever published, "Singing In Style" provides an introduction to how such issues as ornamentation, vibrato, rubato, portamento, articulation, tempo, language, and accompaniment with period instruments have been handled since the seventeenth century. Each chapter presents a ... see all copies from $12.65! new only from $15.50! \| SVS
3	The History of Music in Performance: The Art of Musical Interpretation from the Renaissance to Our Day more books like this by Frederick Dorian add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $17.45! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Keyboard Interpretation more books like this by Howard Ferguson add to wishlist This standard work is an introduction to the interpretation of keyboard music from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century. Dr Ferguson provides information about the instruments themselves, and discusses this vast, fascinating, and ever-changing subject under the headings: musical types and forms, tempo, phrasing and articulation, fingering, ... see all copies from $5.56! new only from $17.55! \| SVS
5	Meter in Music, 16001800: Performance, Perception, and Notation more books like this by George Houle add to wishlist A Choice Outstanding Academic Book. The notation of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century music is often a puzzle to performers. The symbols look familiar, but their meanings of some have evolved dramatically. The period between 1600 and 1800 witnessed a transition both in notation and in the treatment of meter in performance. Merely transcribing ... see all copies from $5.75! new only from $5.75!
6	Mendelssohn in Performance more books like this by Siegwart Reichwald (Editor), Christopher Hogwood (Foreword by) add to wishlist Exploring many aspects of Mendelssohn's multi-faceted career as musician and how it intersects with his work as composer, contributors discuss practical issues of music making such as performance space, instruments, tempo markings, dynamics, phrasings, articulations, fingerings, and instrument techniques. They present the conceptual and ... see all copies from $39.95! new only from $39.95! \| SVS
7	Mastering the Art of Performance: A Primer for Musicians more books like this by Stewart Gordon add to wishlist Offers advice for musicians on conquering the demands of performance. This book spans various aspects of the performance process from the planning and preparatory stages, through the actual performance, evaluation, and cultivation of a life devoted to performance. see all copies from $22.10! new only from $22.10! \| SVS
8	Debussy in Performance more books like this by James R. Briscoe (Editor) add to wishlist An exploration of how the compositions of Claude Debussy are brought to life in performance. It investigates the composer's own expectations, the traditions surrounding the performance of his music, and the internal and contextual evidence that can give insight to performers of his works. see all copies from $22.75! new only from $47.87!
9	Counterpoint: The Polyphonic Vocal Style of the Sixteenth Century more books like this by Knud Jeppesen, Geoffrey Haydon (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $5.00! first editions
10	Authenticities: Philosophical Reflections on Musical Performance more books like this by Peter Kivy add to wishlist "In his latest book on the aesthetics of music, Peter Kivy presents an argument not for authenticity but for authenticities of performance, including authenticities of intention, sound, practice, and the authenticity of personal interpretation in performance. . . . As usual, Kivy's work is beautifully written, well argued, and provocative".--NOTES ... see all copies from $16.95! new only from $16.95! \| first editions
11	Performance Practice: Ethnomusicological Perspectives more books like this by Gerard Behague (Editor) add to wishlist Gerard Behague presents five culture-, process-, and community-specific case studies of performance that challenge the assumption that contextual differences in performance and performance practice matter little in overall effect. Within the diverse performance contexts evaluated--Hindustani, Karantak, Mali, Berber, American, and Latin American ... see all copies from $59.95! new only from $81.00! \| first editions
12	Readings in the History of Music in Performance more books like this by Jennifer Cross, Carol MacClintock add to wishlist This is a most important contribution to the practical art of interpretation, consisting as it does of passages by writers on musical performance from the late Middle Ages through to the borders of the classical and romantic periods from Jerome of Moravia to Hector Berlioz...Brief but excellent biographical sketches by Carol MacClintock precede ... see all copies from $42.25!
13	Inside Early Music: Conversations with Performers more books like this by Bernard D Sherman add to wishlist The attempt to play music with the styles and instruments of its era--commonly referred to as the early music movement--has become immensely popular in recent years. For instance, Billboard's "Top Classical Albums" of 1993 and 1994 featured Anonymous 4, who sing medieval music, and the best-selling Beethoven recording of 1995 was a period ... see all copies from $3.29! new only from $21.56! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The Early Music Revival: A History more books like this by Harry Haskell add to wishlist First comprehensive historical study, going back to 18th century. Influence of Schola Cantorum; instrument builders; performers such as Wanda Landowska, Alfred Deller, others. Includes 46 illustrations. "Well informed" -- Christopher Hogwood. see all copies from $3.00! new only from $16.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	The Harmonic Orator: A Guide to the Phrasing and Rhetoric of the Melody in French Baroque Airs more books like this by Patricia M Ranum add to wishlist see all copies from $62.00! new only from $62.00!
16 view cover	The Early Horn: A Practical Guide more books like this by John Humphries, Colin Lawson (Editor), Professor Robin Stowell (Editor) add to wishlist This introduction to the early horn provides a historical account of the instrument's development during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as well as a practical guide to playing techniques and principles of interpretation. The book aims to help performers to play in an historically appropriate style and to guide listeners towards a clearer ... see all copies from $23.00! new only from $25.65! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The Historical Performance of Music: An Introduction more books like this by Professor Robin Stowell (Editor), Colin Lawson add to wishlist Offering students and performers a concise overview of historical performance, this book takes into account the many significant developments in the discipline, particularly during the last decade. It addresses practical matters rather than philosophical issues and guides readers towards further investigation and interpretation of the evidence ... see all copies from $8.45! new only from $24.81!
18 view cover	Wagner in Performance more books like this by Barry Millington (Editor), Mr. Stewart Spencer (Editor) add to wishlist This book, addressed to both specialists and the opera-going public, brings together a team of acknowledged authorities from round the world to examine the performance history and reception of Wagner's works in Europe and America. A connected sequence of essays on conducting, singing, production and stage design explores the nature of Wagner's ... see all copies from $7.95! new only from $50.00! \| first editions
19 view cover	Mozart's Symphonies: Context, Performance Practice, Reception more books like this by Neal Zaslaw add to wishlist First published in hardback, in 1989, Mozart's Symphonies is the first serious attempt in any language to survey the entire panorama of Mozart's symphonic works. Accounting for every symphony associated with Mozart involved the identification and evaluation of nearly a hundred symphonies. Professor Zaslaw placed each symphony in its musical and ... see all copies from $38.30! new only from $82.83! \| SVS
20	A Performer's Guide to Baroque Music more books like this by Robert Donington add to wishlist see all copies from $40.00!
21 view cover	Recording the Classics: Maestros, Music, and Technology more books like this by James Badal add to wishlist A collection of interviews with major orchestra conductors which explores the impact of recording technology on contemporary musical culture. This work discusses the digital revolution and progress of the compact disc along with the listening public's changing perception of music. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.94! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	The Virtuoso Flute-Player more books like this by Johann G Tromlitz, Mr. Ardal Powell (Editor) add to wishlist This is an English translation of Tutor for Playing the Flute (1791) by Johann George Tromlitz. The most explicit of the eighteenth-century tutors for flute-playing, it now serves as a record of instrumental practice as well as a useful guide to the performance of German classical music. The Tutor covers all aspects of flute playing, including ... see all copies from $47.25! new only from $57.87! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Classical and Romantic Performing Practice 1750-1900 more books like this by Clive Brown, Sir Roger Norrington (Foreword by) add to wishlist The past ten years have seen a rapidly growing interest in performing and recording Classical and Romantic music with period instruments; yet the relationship of composers' notation to performing practices during that period has received only sporadic attention from scholars, and many aspects of composers' intentions have remained uncertain. Clive ... see all copies from $45.00! new only from $53.81! \| SVS
24 view cover	Beethoven on Beethoven: Playing His Piano Music His Way more books like this by William S Newman add to wishlist This study aims to get as close as possible to the way in which Beethoven himself would have played his piano music in both the solo and the ensemble works. These performance practices will vary according to the instrument used, tempo taken, pedalling decisions and matters of style. see all copies from $15.01! new only from $19.99! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	The Early Clarinet: A Practical Guide more books like this by Colin Lawson (Editor), Professor Robin Stowell (Editor) add to wishlist This practical guide is intended for all clarinettists with a desire to investigate music of earlier periods. It contains practical help on both the aquisition and playing of historical clarinets, while players of modern instruments will find much advice on style, approach and techniques which combine to make up a well-grounded, period ... see all copies from $24.49! new only from $24.49! \| SVS

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