Praise for the cloth edition: "Commendable in its scholarship... should prove of interest to linguists, medievalists, and Renaissance academicians, as well as to fastidious performers of early music." Choice
"Singing Early Music is a pioneering work of surpassing quality that cannot be too highly recommended." Journal of Singing
"Addresses the needs of the performer directly, giving historical pronunciations for a range of languages and] sample texts.... The CD that comes with the book will prove invaluable.... David Klausner s recording is admirably consistent and...
Praise for the cloth edition: "Commendable in its scholarship... should prove of interest to linguists, medievalists, and Renaissance academici...
" I]nvaluable for musicologists and troubadour scholars interested in knowing about the 'whole song', and it also provides an excellent introduction to troubadour music for the historian, philologist or, indeed, anyone with a passing interest." --David Cashman, Parergon
"It is a down-to-earth treatment of the discernible facts, ordered according to the type of evidence that survives. It is a book to sober up the discipline." --Daniel Leech-Wilkinson, Times Literary Supplement
" A] welcome guide for the growing number of performers wishing to recreate these magical treaures...
" I]nvaluable for musicologists and troubadour scholars interested in knowing about the 'whole song', and it also provides an excellent introductio...
Stylized dance music and music based on dance rhythms pervade Bach's compositions. Although the music of this very special genre has long been a part of every serious musician's repertoire, little has been written about it.
The original edition of this addressed works that bore the names of dances--a considerable corpus. In this expanded version of their practical and insightful study, Meredith Little and Natalie Jenne apply the same principals to the study of a great number of Bach's works that use identifiable dance rhythms but do not bear dance-specific titles.
Part I...
Stylized dance music and music based on dance rhythms pervade Bach's compositions. Although the music of this very special genre has long been a pa...
This is an excellent reference volume including essays on all aspects of medieval music performance. With forty essays written by experts in the field on everything from repertoire, voices and instruments to basic theory, all aspects of recreation are treated. This guide has already proven indispensable to performers and scholars of medieval music. Chapters on vocal and choral music; various types of ensembles; profiles of specific instruments; instrumentation; performance practice issues; theory; dance; regional profiles of Renaissance music, and guidelines for directors are all treated. It...
This is an excellent reference volume including essays on all aspects of medieval music performance. With forty essays written by experts in the field...