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Performance Practice: Music After 1600 (Norton/Grove Handbooks in Music) (1990-03-23)

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Performance Practice: Music After 1600 (Norton/Grove Handbooks in Music) (1990-03-23)

Penned By Howard Mayer Brown
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This handbook, an entirely new work, is not simply another guide to the performance of music of the past; it is, rather, a book about the study of past performance. Each main section - Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Twentieth Century - contains an introduction dealing with contexts of performance as well as sources and theory. This is followed by detailed discussions of vocal and instrumental performance.

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Howard Mayer Brown is a writer and avid reader based in the Pacific Northwest. Before pursuing writing full-time, they spent over a decade working in education. When not working on their next book, Howard Mayer Brown can usually be found hiking with their dog or trying out new coffee shops in their neighborhood.

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