• the latest thinking on stylish performance presented in a clear, helpful and practical way
• chapters from leading experts on historical background, notation and interpretation, and sources and editions
• specialist advice for keyboard, string and wind players, and singers
• illustrated with many music examples, facsimiles and pictures
• includes a full-length CD of excerpts from authoritative recordings
Contents and Reviews
Contents
SHEET MUSIC
- Preface (Classical period) [Anthony Burton]
- Introduction [Christopher Hogwood / Jane Glover / Roger Norrington / William Baines / Richard Crozier / Trevor Herbert / Paul Harris / Clara Taylor]
- Historical Background [David Wyn Jones / George Pratt]
- Notation and Interpretation [Cliff Eisen]
- Keyboard [David Ward]
- Strings [Duncan Druce]
- Wind Instruments [Ashley Solomon]
- Singing [Richard Wigmore]
- Sources and Editions [Barry Cooper]
