Performance Practice: Issues and Approaches - Watkins, Timothy D., -1965 (Ann Arbor, MI Steglein, 2009)
Monophonic traditions. Echoes of St. Andrews : performance practice questions in the chants of WI / Jann Cosart ; Notation and rhythm in the Medicean Gradual / Joshua Veltman ; Die Meistersinger von Breslau : Adam Puschman and the Breslau Meistersingerordnung of 1598 / Allen Scott -- American musics. Performance issues in early colonial Mexican polyphony : a critical examination of some colonial accounts / Timothy D. Watkins ; The dilemma of instrumentation in the early American theater : a portrait of the colonial Charleston orchestra / Timothy Crain ; The interface between literacy and orality in the performance of music by William Billings / Charles E. Brewer -- Baroque repertoires. Fanning the flames of love : hidden performance solutions for Monteverdi's Ballo delle ingrate in dance practice / Virginia Christy Lamothe ; Cello teaching and playing in Naples in the early eighteenth century : Francesco Paolo Supriani's Principij da imparare a suonare il violoncello / Guido Olivieri ; Music sui generis : confronting the obvious in the Bach cello suites / Christine Kyprianides ; In defense of l'ancien goût in Regency France : the free graces of Montéclair's instrumental doubles / Charles Gower Price -- Music and text in romantic contexts. Mendelssohn "Unfinished" : newly discovered performance parts of the premiere of St. Paul / Siegwart Reichwald ; The peerless reciter : reconstructing the lost art of elocution with music / Marion Wilson Kimber -- Theory, technology, and aesthetics. Two facets of eighteenth-century performance practice : a dialogue between melodic and harmonic dynamic prescriptions in Quantz's versuch / Evan Jones ; Technology and aesthetics : historically informed performance practice and the compact disc / Stephen Meyer.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Historically informed performance; Music history