Keyboard Music Before 1700

Name: Keyboard Music Before 1700
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ISBN: 9780028723914

ISBN-10: 0028723910

ISBN-13: 9780028723914

Edition: 1995

Authors: Alexander Silbiger

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This series presents introductory guides to key musical genres in the Western classical canon. Designed for the avid listener or the student of music history, each volume offers chapters exploring principal composers and their works, as well as contextual essays. Written by eminent music scholars, generously illustrated with musical examples, and furnished with suggested bibliographies, Routledge Studies in Musical Genres provide readable yet informative surveys for music lovers and dedicated musicians alike. Book jacket.

Book details

List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Cengage Gale
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



Preface to the Second Edition


Preface to the First Edition


Acknowledgments


Note on Citations


Contributors


Introduction: The First Centuries of European Keyboard Music


Notation


The Early Repertory


Genres and Their Contexts


Guide to Literature and Editions


England


The Background


The Two Sixteenth


Century Traditions


William Byrd


The Later Virginalists


The Mid-Seventeenth Century


The Age of Purcell


Guide to Literature and Editions


France


Organ Music: Plainchant; Liturgy; The Renaissance and Pre


Classic Periods; The Classic Period


Harpsichord Music: The Renaissance and Pre


Classic Periods; The Classic Period


Guide to Literature and Editions


Germany and the Netherlands


Conrad Paumann and the Buxheim Organ Book


The Early Sixteenth Century


The Later Sixteenth-Century Tablatures


Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck and His German Pupils


The Mid-Seventeenth Century


The Later Seventeenth Century


Guide to Literature and Editions


Italy


Instruments


The Liturgy


The Music: The Earliest Evidence; The Early Sixteenth Century; 1540 to 1620; Girolamo Frescobaldi; 1630 to 1700


Guide to Literature and Editions


Spain and Portugal


The Iberian Organ


The Nascent Literature and the Theorists


Cabezon


Aguilera de Heredia and the Aragonese School


Coelho


Correa de Arauxo


Cabanilles


Guide to Literature and Editions


Performance Practice


Why Study Performance Practice? A Brief History


The Instruments and How to Play Them


Pitch Standards


Tuning and Temperament


Body and Hand Positions


Articulation


Fingering


Accidentals


Tempo


Repeats and First and Second Endings


Ornamentation


Guide to Literature


Index