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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.
Tuning Renaissance And Baroque Instruments: Some Guidelines, Mark Lindley
Tuning Renaissance And Baroque Instruments: Some Guidelines, Mark Lindley
Performance Practice Review
Provides detailed guidelines for tuning keyboard instruments, including the harpsichord, piano, and organ. Musical examples for tuning unisons between overtones in consonant intervals and octaves are included. Other musical examples illustrate the procedures for setting a quasi-Pythagorean temperament, a meantone temperament, a temperament ordinaire, a Bach-style irregular temperament, and an equal temperament.