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Composers' intentions? : lost traditions of musical performance /

Title:
Composers' intentions? : lost traditions of musical performance /
Author:
Parrott, Andrew, author.
Format:
Book
Institution:
New England Conservatory
Contents:
Composers' intentions, performers' responsibilities -- A brief anatomy of choirs -- Falsetto beliefs : the 'countertenor' cross-examined -- Falsetto and the French : 'une toute autre marche' -- Transposition in Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610 -- Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610 revisited -- Monteverdi : onwards and downwards -- High clefs and down-to-earth transposition : a brief defence of Monteverdi -- Performing Purcell -- How many singers? -- Vocal ripienists and J.S. Bach's Mass in B minor -- Bach's chorus : the Leipzig line -- J.S. Bach's Trauer-music for Prince Leopold : clarification and reconstruction -- Performing Machaut's Mass on record -- 'Grett and solompne singing' : instruments in English church music before the Civil War -- Monteverdi's L'Orfeo -- Purcell's Dido & Aeneas on record -- 'Hail! bright Cecilia' (Purcell at 350).
Online access:
No online access
Library holdings:
New England Conservatory Spaulding Library
ML457.P27 C66 2015 – Available