(Vocal Collection). Most voice teachers and singers still prefer the pianistic, wonderfully gratifying arrangements of this early Italian material made by Alessandro Parisotti in the 1880s. This new edition, newly researched and engraved, includes the original Schirmer "24" plus four additional songs: Sento nel core (A. Scarlatti), O leggiadri occhi belli (anonymous), Intorno all'idol mio (Cesti), Delizie contente, che l'alma beate (Cavalli). With IPA, word for word translations, and historical information on each song and composer. The recording includes piano accompaniments and pronunciation lessons and is available online for streaming or download.

Provides a collection of guitar solos from a variety of Baroque composers, including Bach, Couperin, Handel, Purcell, and Telemann.

Product Description: First Published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Product Description: This informative book teaches writing and understanding Baroque counterpoint. Unique in approach, Baroque Counterpoint uses extensive quotations and examples from contemporaneous treatises; the authors explain the principles underlying the compositional techniques of the period, introducing readers to the widest range of composers of any of the books on the market today...read more

Product Description: Now includes a chapter on French and English sacred music in the 17th and 18th century. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Professional and amateur musicians will appreciate this clear, readable guide to the music of Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Telemann, and other Baroque composers. Author Victor Rangel-Ribeiro draws upon the writings of C. P. E. Bach, J. J. Quantz, G. P. Telemann, Francesco Geminiani, Leopold Mozart, and Giuseppe Tartini to offer advice on the difficult aspects of eighteenth-century German, Italian, and English masterworks.Advancing from relatively simple material to more complex works, this guide begins by outlining the problems inherent in Baroque performance. Subsequent chapters examine ornamentation and the principles of "figured bass," applying them to various types of works, including keyboard concertos and vocal music. An epilogue sheds new light on a highly complex rhythmic issue, and the appendices present three unfamiliar examples of ornamentation. Profusely illustrated with musical examples, this volume was praised by violinist and conductor Yehudi Menuhin for its "readable and engaging style, free from the pedantic, overly scholarly approach."

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Product Description: For performers and audiences to understand music of earlier times, they must learn to comprehend the languages and messages of the past. In these essays, Nikolaus Harnoncourt summarizes his views arising from years devoted to the performance of early music, discussing some of the problems of historical interpretation...read more

Product Description: The late 17th century through to the end of the 18th century saw rapid progress in the development of woodwind instruments and the composition of a vast body of music for those instruments. During this period a large amount of music for domestic consumption was written for a growing amateur market, a market which has regrown in the latter part of the 20th century...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume explores the social and cultural background to the music of the period, and gives a thorough historical context to the developments in British music. Following an introductory section on the social and cultural background of the seventeenth century, there are chapters by leading musicologists and musical historians on various aspects of music making...read more

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Product Description: The organ books and part-books used in Durham Cathedral over the centuries form the greatest part of this collection, those from the early seventeenth century being particularly well known and of special interest to music scholars and historians...read more