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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Historical Performance in Music Colin Lawson (Royal College of Music, London)

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Historical Performance in Music By Colin Lawson (Royal College of Music, London)

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Historical Performance in Music by Colin Lawson (Royal College of Music, London)

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An accessible yet scholarly resource for students, teachers and performers, providing a vital reference tool for enabling the understanding and practice of period performance. This ground breaking Encyclopedia covers the development of style, technique and instruments, as well as the work of performers, scholars, composers and theorists.

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Historical Performance in Music Summary

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Historical Performance in Music by Colin Lawson (Royal College of Music, London)

Recent decades have seen a major increase of interest in historical performance practice, but until now there has been no comprehensive reference tool available on the subject. This fully up-to-date, illuminating and accessible volume will assist readers in rediscovering and recreating as closely as possible how musical works may originally have sounded. Focusing on performance, this Encyclopedia contains entries in categories including issues of style, techniques and practices, the history and development of musical instruments, and the work of performers, scholars, theorists, composers and editors. It features contributions from more than 100 leading experts who provide a geographically varied survey of both theory and practice, as well as evaluation of and opinions on the resolution of problems in period performance. This timely and ground breaking book will be an essential resource for students, scholars, teachers, performers and audiences.

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'Lawson (Royal College of Music, UK) and Stowell (Cardiff Univ., UK) assembled a team of 112 expert contributors, most from British and American universities, and the entries are of uniformly high quality. ... The encyclopedia includes many useful musical examples and illustrations, and most of the entries include a brief bibliography of suggested reading. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals.' W. E. Grim, Choice
'This Encyclopedia is an outstanding publication which makes a valuable and timely contribution to the literature. It will be of interest not only to students, scholars, teachers and performers, but also to general music-lovers with a desire to learn about the subject of historical performance. It will undoubtedly become a standard text for many years to come ...' International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (UK and Ireland) Executive Committee, Official Citation for 2019 C.B. Oldman Award

About Colin Lawson (Royal College of Music, London)

Colin Lawson is Director of the Royal College of Music, London. He is a world-renowned period clarinettist and has played principal in most of Britain's leading period orchestras, with which he has recorded and toured worldwide. He has published extensively and is co-editor, with Robin Stowell, of a series of Cambridge Handbooks to the Historical Performance of Music as well as of The Cambridge History of Musical Performance (Cambridge, 2012). Robin Stowell is Emeritus Professor of Music at Cardiff University. As a violinist he has performed, broadcast and recorded with the Academy of Ancient Music and other period ensembles. He is the author of Violin Technique and Performance Practice in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries (Cambridge, 1985) and his other major publications include The Early Violin and Viola (Cambridge, 2001) and three Cambridge Companions - to the violin (1992), cello (1999) and string quartet (2003).

Table of Contents

List of illustrations; List of music examples; List of contributors; Editors' preface; List of abbreviations; Selected treatises commonly cited in abbreviated forms; A-Z general entries; Index.

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NLS9781107518476
9781107518476
1107518474
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Historical Performance in Music by Colin Lawson (Royal College of Music, London)
Colin Lawson (Royal College of Music, London)
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Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2021-02-11
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