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Treatise on Vocal Performance and Ornamentation by Johann Adam Hiller

By: Johann Adam Hiller

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Treatise on Vocal Performance and Ornamentation by Johann Adam Hiller

By: Johann Adam Hiller

Hiller's Treatise on Vocal Performance and Ornamentation was published in Germany in 1780 and is an important manual on vocal technique and performance in the eighteenth century. Hiller was a masterful educator and was active not only as a teacher but as a critic, composer, conductor and music director. Thus, his observations served not only to raise the standards of singing in Germany, based on the Italian model, but to present complicated material, particularly ornamentation, in a manner that his peers, the middle class, could emulate. This present edition, translated with an introduction and extensive commentary by musicologist Suzanne J. Beicken, makes Hiller's treatise available for the first time in English. With its emphasis on practical aspects of ornamentation, declamation and style it will be valuable to instrumentalists as well as singers and is a significant contribution to the understanding of performance practice in the eighteenth-century.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139428985

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The Virtuoso Flute-Player

By: Johann George Tromlitz

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The Virtuoso Flute-Player

By: Johann George Tromlitz

This is an English translation of Tutor for Playing the Flute (1791) by Johann George Tromlitz. The most explicit of the eighteenth-century tutors for flute-playing, it now serves as a record of instrumental practice as well as a useful guide to the performance of German classical music. The Tutor covers all aspects of flute playing, including intonation, articulation, flute maintenance, posture and breathing, dynamics, ornaments, musical style, cadenzas, and the construction of the flute. This edition will be an indispensable manual for players of baroque and modern flutes, and the information it contains will be invaluable for all musicians, students, and specialists interested in the historically informed performance of German classical music. The text is annotated with critical notes and all of the original music examples are newly printed in modern notation. The volume also contains a fingering chart and a historical introduction.

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372

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Cambridge University Press

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0521399777

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9780521399777

Introduction to the Art of Singing by Johann Friedrich Agricola

By: Pier Francesco Tosi,Johann Friedrich Agricola

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Introduction to the Art of Singing by Johann Friedrich Agricola

By: Pier Francesco Tosi,Johann Friedrich Agricola

An English translation with commentary of an important first treatise on singing by Agricola.

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312

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Cambridge University Press

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052145428X

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9780521454285

On Playing the Flute

By: Johann Joachim Quantz

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On Playing the Flute

By: Johann Joachim Quantz

Originally published in 1752, this is a new paperback edition of the classic treatise on 18th-century musical thought, performance practice, and style

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UPNE

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1555534732

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9781555534738

Aesthetics and the Art of Musical Composition in the German Enlightenment

Selected Writings of Johann Georg Sulzer and Heinrich Christoph Koch

By: Johann Georg Sulzer

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Aesthetics and the Art of Musical Composition in the German Enlightenment

Selected Writings of Johann Georg Sulzer and Heinrich Christoph Koch

By: Johann Georg Sulzer

Can an abstract theory of Empfindsamkeit aesthetics have any value to a musician wishing to study composition in the classical style? The eighteenth-century German theorist and pedagogue Heinrich Koch showed how this question could be answered with a resounding yes. Starting with the systematic aesthetic theory of the Swiss encyclopedist Johann Sulzer, Koch was creatively able to adapt Sulzer's conservative ideas on ethical mimesis and rhetoric to concrete problems of music analysis and composition. In this collaborative study, Thomas Christensen and Nancy Baker have translated and analysed selected writings of Sulzer and Koch respectively, bringing to life a little-known confluence of philosophical and musical thought from the German Enlightenment. Koch's appropriation of Sulzer's ideas to the service of music represents an important development in the evolution of Western musical thought.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521360358

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9780521360357

Beethoven

The First Biography, 1827

By: Johann Aloys Schlosser

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Beethoven

The First Biography, 1827

By: Johann Aloys Schlosser

First English translation of this biography first published only a few months after the death of the composer

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Hal Leonard Corporation

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1574670069

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Treatise on Vocal Performance and Ornamentation

By: Johann Adam Hiller

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Treatise on Vocal Performance and Ornamentation

By: Johann Adam Hiller

This present edition of Johann Adam Hiller's Treatise on Vocal Performance and Ornamentation, originally published in Germany in 1780, is translated with an introduction and extensive commentary by musicologist Suzanne J. Beicken and makes this important manual on vocal technique and performance available for the first time in English.

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Treatise on Vocal Performance and Ornamentation by Johann Adam Hiller

Treatise on Vocal Performance and Ornamentation by Johann Adam Hiller

Treatise on Vocal Performance and Ornamentation by Johann Adam Hiller

Treatise on Vocal Performance and Ornamentation by Johann Adam Hiller

The Virtuoso Flute-Player

The Virtuoso Flute-Player

Introduction to the Art of Singing by Johann Friedrich Agricola

Introduction to the Art of Singing by Johann Friedrich Agricola

On Playing the Flute

On Playing the Flute

Aesthetics and the Art of Musical Composition in the German Enlightenment

Aesthetics and the Art of Musical Composition in the German Enlightenment

Beethoven

Beethoven

Treatise on Vocal Performance and Ornamentation

Treatise on Vocal Performance and Ornamentation

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