A Performer's Guide to Renaissance Music Second Edition
Author(s): Jeffery Kite-Powell
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication Date: 2 Aug. 2007
Edition: Second
Language: English
Print length: 504 pages
ISBN-10: 0253348668
ISBN-13: 9780253348661
Book Description
Revised and expanded since it first appeared in 1991, the guide features two new chapters on ornamentation and rehearsal techniques, as well as updated reference materials, internet resources, and other new material made available only in the last decade.
The guide is comprised of focused chapters on performance practice issues such as 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. The format addresses the widest possible audience for early music, including amateur and professional performers, musicologists, theorists, and educators.
Editorial Reviews
Review
This volume stands as an admirable update to an already-informative how-to manual for performing Renaissance music. . . . The present edition comprises 31 essays by noted scholar-performers, including Bruce Dickey, Paul O’Dette, Anthony Rooley, Alexander Blachly, and Alejandro Planchart. . . . All the essays are thorough yet not too in-depth, concise but not superficial, and all offer solid starting points for further exploration. This volume . . . should be helpful to both performers and directors. . . . Recommended.
― Choice
I highly recommend this book as a practical and necessary reference work for anyone dealing with the scholarly study or performance practice of this musical time period. 2010:2
― Fontes Artis Musicae
Book Description
A revised and expanded guide to performance practice issues in Renaissance music
From the Author
Jeffery Kite-Powell is Professor and Coordinator of Music History and Musicology at Florida State University, where he teaches courses on musicology and music history, and directs the FSU Early Music Ensemble and the vocal group Cantores Musicæ Antiquæ.
About the Author
Jeffery Kite-Powell is Professor and Coordinator of Music History and Musicology at Florida State University, where he teaches courses on musicology and music history, and directs the FSU Early Music Ensemble and the vocal group Cantores Musicæ Antiquæ.
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