Essays in performance practice

Essays in performance practice / by Frederick Neumann.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Neumann, Frederick
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press, ©1982.
Series:Studies in musicology ; no. 58.
Subjects:
Donington, Robert. > Performer's guide to baroque music (a review)
1600-1799
Performance practice (Music) > History > 17th century.
Performance practice (Music) > History > 18th century.
Embellishment (Music) > History > 17th century.
Embellishment (Music) > History > 18th century.
Embellishment (Music)
Embellishment [Music].
Music > Performance.
Performance practice (Music)
History.
Table of Contents:
  • The use of baroque treatises on musical performance
  • Donington's A performer's guide to baroque music, a review
  • The French inégales, Quantz and Bach
  • An answer to Donington's critique
  • External evidence and uneven notes
  • The dotted note and the so-called French style
  • 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.

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