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"The Rameau Compendium" By Graham Sadler, Mary Cyr
"The Rameau Compendium" By Graham Sadler, Mary Cyr
Performance Practice Review
Mary Cyr discusses and reviews Graham Sadler's 2014 work.
Sadler, Graham. The Rameau Compendium. Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2014.
ISBN: 978-1-84383-905-1
The Off-Board String On The Medieval Fiddle, Linda Marie Zaerr
The Off-Board String On The Medieval Fiddle, Linda Marie Zaerr
Performance Practice Review
Drawing on explicit descriptions, iconographic representations, and contemporary narrative, this essay analyzes playing techniques and repertories plausible for one type of medieval fiddle and suggests that notions of historical fiddle performance may need to expand to accommodate the aesthetics and techniques implied by the off-board fiddle.
While it has been widely assumed that the left thumb was used to pluck the laterally divergent string described by Jerome of Moravia, the complete body of evidence suggests an alternative interpretation: the thumb can be used to stop this off-board string, extending the melodic range of the instrument down to a step below …