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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dokter, Julia (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, NY, United States : University of Rochester Press, 2021.
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.