Tempo and tactus in the German Baroque : treatises, scores, and the performance of organ music /
"Before the advent of the metronome ca. 1800, there was little in the way of a standardized, commonly accessible method for precisely communicating how fast musical compositions should be performed. Instead of absolute time (e.g., plottable on a metronome), Baroque musicians developed notationa...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Rochester, NY, United States :
University of Rochester Press,
2021.
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Colección: | Eastman studies in music ;
v. 178. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Treatise theory. The foundation of German Baroque tempo theory : Michael Praetorius ; Duple meter ; Triple and compound meter : proportional relationships ; "2" and blackened/whitened notation ; Beat patterns and tempo ; Source excerpts ; Tempo words
- Score analysis. The functional equivalency of the two "ordinary" duple meters in later seventeenth-century organ music ; Stylus phantasticus ; Differentiations between the two "ordinary" duple meters in Johann Sebastian Bach's music ; The large Allabreve and the "Kirnbergian" small Allabreve ; Triple meter and tempo words
- Synthesis. Case studies ; Final remarks, summary, and synthesis.