Performance practice : music before 1600
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Performance practice : music before 1600
（The New Grove handbooks in music）
Macmillan, 1989
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"First American edition 1990 : W.W. Norton : New York": -- t.p. verso
Description and Table of Contents
Description
"Parts of this material first published in The New Grove dictionary of music and musicians, edited by Stanley Sadie, 1980"--Verso t.p.
Table of Contents
VOLUME 1: PART 1 MEDIEVAL MUSIC - Introduction (sources, theory, iconography, society, venues) - Instruments - Chant - Secular Monophony - Polyphony - Unwritten traditions - Interlude I: Musica ficta - Tempo, proportions - PART 2 RENAISSANCE MUSIC - Introduction - Instruments - Sacred Polyphony - Secular Polyphony - Monophony - Unwritten traditions - Interlude II: Pitch - Temperaments, tuning - Fingering, articulation. VOLUME 2: PART 3 BAROQUE MUSIC - Introduction - Instruments - Voices - Notation and non-notation - PART 4 CLASSICAL MUSIC - Introduction - Instruments - Voices - Ornamentation, improvisation - PART 5 ROMANTIC MUSIC - Introduction - Instruments - Voices - PART 6 THE 20TH CENTURY - 1900-40 - 1940-80 - Index
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