| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 234 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Cambridge handbooks to the historical performance of music
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Cambridge handbooks to the historical performance of music.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-223) and index. |
| Contents |
Historical performance in context. The seeds of growth. The violin and viola literature. Period violinists and violists. Interpreting the evidence. Standards of verity. The value of historical performance -- The repertory and principal sources. Introduction. The emancipation of the violin. The mainstream solo violin repertory (c.1700-c.1900) : a brief overview. The mainstream solo viola repertory to c.1900 : a brief overview. Primary sources. Principal violin treatises. Principal viola treatises. Other treatises. Surviving instruments, bows and accessories. Iconography -- Equipment. The violin: origins and early history. Early centres of violin making. The viola : origins and early history. Accessories. The bow : history and development. Purchasing an early violin or viola. Purchasing a violin/viola bow for early music -- Technique. Posture. Holding the instrument. Placement of the left hand and fingers. Positions and shifting. Diatonic and chromatic scale fingerings. Timbre. Vibrato. Harmonics. Pizzicato. Pitch. Tuning systems and scordatura. Holding the bow. Bow strokes and bow management. Multiple stopping -- The language of musical style. Introduction. National idioms and changes in style. Specific and extempore ornamentation. Rhythmic alteration. Affect, rhetoric and phrasing (general principles) . Articulation, accentuation and melodic inflection as constituents of phrasing. Tempo and tempo rubato. Taste -- Historical awareness in practice 1 : three eighteenth-century case studies : Corelli, Bach and Haydn. Corelli : Sonata in A major, Op. 5 no. 9. J.S. Bach : Partita no. 3 in E major for violin solo, BWV1006. Haydn : String Quartet in E flat major, Op. 33 no. 2 (Hob. III:38) -- Historical awareness in practice 2 : three nineteenth-century case studies : Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Brahms. Beethoven : Sonata in A major for violin and piano, Op. 47 ('Kreutzer') . Mendelssohn : Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64. Brahms : Sonata in E flat major, Op. 120 no. 2 for piano and viola (clarinet) -- Related family members. |
| Summary |
This handbook provides an historical account of the development of the violin, viola and their close relatives, as well as a practical guide to playing techniques and principles of interpretation. Its six detailed case studies will assist readers in forging well-grounded, period interpretations of major works from the repertory. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Violin -- Performance.
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Violin -- Performance. |
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Viola -- Performance.
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Viola -- Performance. |
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Viola. |
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Instrumental music -- 18th century -- Interpretation (Phrasing, dynamics, etc.)
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Instrumental music. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
| Subject |
Instrumental music -- 19th century -- Interpretation (Phrasing, dynamics, etc.)
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| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Genre/Form |
Instrumental music.
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| Subject |
Performance practice (Music) -- History -- 18th century.
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Performance practice (Music) |
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History. |
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Performance practice (Music) -- History -- 19th century.
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| Chronological Term |
1700-1899 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Handboeken (vorm)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Stowell, Robin. Early violin and viola. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001 0521623804 (DLC) 00065086 (OCoLC)45320737 |
| ISBN |
9780511481833 (electronic book) |
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0511481837 (electronic book) |
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0511019157 (electronic book) |
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9780511019159 (electronic book) |
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0511035438 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780511035432 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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0511153171 |
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9780511153174 |
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0511050674 |
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9780511050671 |
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9780521623803 |
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0521623804 |
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128041894X |
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9781280418945 |
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0521625556 (paperback) |
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