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Numbers And Tempo: 1630-1800, Beverly Jerold
Numbers And Tempo: 1630-1800, Beverly Jerold
Performance Practice Review
After discussing the role of technology in achieving modern performance standards, this article examines sources that have been cited in support of extremely rapid tempos for the time frame 1630-1800. It summarizes recent findings about the French time devices in which a new source ‒ the Paris dancing master Raoul Auger Feuillet’s reasonable pendulum tempo numbers for dance forms ‒ provides the most accurate information to date for tempo around 1700. Continuing then with other sources cited for rapid tempos, the present article discusses the conflicting statements in Marin Mersenne’s Harmonie universelle and his inaccurate pendulum measurements. It considers the …
Bach's Tempo Ordinario: A Plaine And Easie Introduction To The System, Robert Marshall
Bach's Tempo Ordinario: A Plaine And Easie Introduction To The System, Robert Marshall
Performance Practice Review
The initial impetus for this inquiry came from a question posed by Arthur Mendel during a coffee break in a Bach seminar some thirty years ago. Why, he asked, did Bach notate the last movement of the fifth Brandenburg Concerto in two-four time, with triplets rather than in six-eight time?...
"Stolen Time: The History Of Tempo Rubato." By Richard Hudson., Barton Hudson
"Stolen Time: The History Of Tempo Rubato." By Richard Hudson., Barton Hudson
Performance Practice Review
Review's and critiques Hudson's 1994 book.
"Das Tempo In Der Musik Von Barock Und Vorklassik. Die Antwort Der Quellen Auf Ein Umstrittenes Thema." By Klaus Miehling, Wolfgang Aufhagen
"Das Tempo In Der Musik Von Barock Und Vorklassik. Die Antwort Der Quellen Auf Ein Umstrittenes Thema." By Klaus Miehling, Wolfgang Aufhagen
Performance Practice Review
Auhagen reviews and critiques Miehling's book on tempo in the Baroque and Preclassic eras.