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Tromlitz On Playing The Flute: A Résumé, Jane Bowers
Tromlitz On Playing The Flute: A Résumé, Jane Bowers
Performance Practice Review
Identifies the highlights of Ardal Powell's translation of Johann Georg Tromlitz's treatise Ausfuhrlicher und grundlicher Unterricht die Flote zu spielen. Tromlitz's treatise contains information on both flute technique and performance practice in the late 18th c. The following topics in Tromlitz's treatise are analyzed in detail: practicing, tone quality, playing with expressivity, intonation, Articulation, rhythm and tempo, ornamentation, and the trill. Excerpts from Powell's translation are included.
"Makers Of The Piano, 1700-1820." By Martha Novak Clinkscale, Malcolm S. Cole
"Makers Of The Piano, 1700-1820." By Martha Novak Clinkscale, Malcolm S. Cole
Performance Practice Review
Cole reviews Clinkscales 1993 book.
Last Words On Inequality And Overdotting: A Review Of Stephen Hefling's Book, David Fuller
Last Words On Inequality And Overdotting: A Review Of Stephen Hefling's Book, David Fuller
Performance Practice Review
Fuller attempts to make definitve decisions about "appropriate" articulation and rhythmic interpretation in 17th and 18th century music.
"Musica Getutscht: A Treatise On Musical Instruments (1511)."By Sebastian Virdung. Trans. And Ed. Beth Bullard, Keith Polk
Performance Practice Review
A book review of Beth Ballard's translation and edition of Musica Getutscht by Virdung.
Italian Split-Keyboard Instruments With Fewer Than Nineteen Divisions To The Octave, Denzil Wraight, Christopher Stembridge
Italian Split-Keyboard Instruments With Fewer Than Nineteen Divisions To The Octave, Denzil Wraight, Christopher Stembridge
Performance Practice Review
Checklists of (1) surviving Italian harpsichords and virginals with split black keys; (2) similar instruments not known to survive but whose existence can be documented; (3) 26 Italian organs built during the period 1468-1665 that are known to have had split keys. Gives the ranges of these instruments when known. Discusses Frescobaldi's probable involvement with such instruments.