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Book Review: "Performance Practice: A Dictionary-Guide For Musicians." By Roland Jackson, Peter Holman

Performance Practice Review

Peter Holman discusses and critiques Roland Jackson's Dictionary-Guide to performance-practice-related terms.

Book Reviews: "Musical Instruments: History, Technology, And Performance Of Instruments Of Western Music." By Murray Campbell, Clive Greated And Arnold Myers, And "From Renaissance To Baroque: Change In Instruments And Instrumental Music In The Seventeenth Century: Proceedings Of The National Early Music Association Conference Held, In Association With The Department Of Music, University Of York And The York Early Music Festival, At The University College Of Ripon And York St Johan, York, 2-4 July 1999." By Jonathan Wainwright And Peter Holman., Rudolf Rasch

Performance Practice Review

Rasch reviews two books on musical instruments.

Campbell, Murray, Clive Greated, and Arnold Myers. "Musical Instruments: History, Technology, and Performance of Instruments of Western Music." Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-19-816504-8.

Wainwright, Jonathan, Peter Holman, eds. "From Renaissance to Baroque: Change in Instruments and Instrumental Music in the Seventeenth Century. Proceedings of the National Early Music Association Conference held, in association with the Department of Music, University of York and the York Early Music Festival, at the University College of Ripon and York St Johan, York, 2-4 July 1999." Aldershot Hampshire: Ashgate, 2005. ISBN 0-7546-0403-9.

Book Review: "Singing In Style: A Guide To Vocal Performance Practices." By Martha Elliott., Margaret Murata

Performance Practice Review

Murata reviews and critiques Martha Elliot's book on singing.

Elliott, Martha. "Singing in Style: A Guide to Vocal Performance Practices." New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006. ISBN 0-300-10932-6.