1 online resource (407 pages) : illustrations, music
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Composers' intentions, performers' responsibilities -- A brief anatomy of choirs -- Falsetto beliefs : the 'countertenor' cross-examined -- Falsetto and the French : 'une toute autre marche' -- Transposition in Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610 -- Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610 revisited -- Monteverdi : onwards and downwards -- High clefs and down-to-earth transposition : a brief defence of Monteverdi -- Performing Purcell -- How many singers? -- Vocal ripienists and J.S. Bach's Mass in B minor -- Bach's chorus : the Leipzig line -- J.S. Bach's Trauer-music for Prince Leopold : clarification and reconstruction -- Performing Machaut's Mass on record -- 'Grett and solompne singing' : instruments in English church music before the Civil War -- Monteverdi's L'Orfeo -- Purcell's Dido & Aeneas on record -- 'Hail! bright Cecilia' (Purcell at 350).
Summary
Essays on musical performance practice by an acknowledged expert in the field.