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Early Music Books Published in 2002
New & Forthcoming Early
Music Books
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| Stephen A. Crist (ed.) Bach Perspectives,
volume 5: Bach in America.
Details. University of Illinois Press 2002. 248 pages.
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| Roberto Illiano, Luca Sala & Massimiliano Sala
(eds.) Muzio Clementi: Studies and Prospects.
Details. 512 pages. Ut Orpheus Edizioni 2002.
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| Clara Marvin. Giovanni Pierluigi da
Palestrina: A Research Guide. 350 pages. Routledge 2002.
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| Charles John Hall. Chronology of Western
Classical Music, 1751-2000. 2-volume set. 1600 pages.
Routledge 2002.
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| Giancarlo Rostirolla. Il "Mondo novo"
musicale di Pier Leone Ghezzi (1708-1744). Skira (Milano)
2001.
Details. Volume of facsimiles of Ghezzi caricatures of early
to mid-18th Century composers and singers, which probably offer
greater insight into their personalities than staged, formal
portraits, and also provide valuable evidence about costumes and
stage gestures. (E.g., compare Ghezzi's caricature of Vivaldi
with a portrait on
Michael Talbot's page.) ISBN: 8881184273. |
| Bruce Haynes. A History of Performing Pitch:
The Story of "A".
Details. This study "refers to the original pitches of some
1,382 historical instruments, including cornetts, Renaissance
flutes, traversos, recorders, clarinets, organs, pitchpipes, and
automatic instruments from all over Europe and compares this
information with music and written texts. . . . [I]t locates a
number of historical pitch levels, discovers several that were
previously unnoticed, and disproves several common myths about
pitch." Scarecrow Press, 2002. 632 pages.
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| Rita Katherine Steblin. A History of Key
Characteristics in the 18th and Early 19th Centuries. 408
pages. University of Rochester Press. 2nd edition, 2002.
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| Melania Bucciarelli. Italian Opera and
European Theatre, 1680-1720: Plots, Performers, Dramaturgies.
(Speculum Musicae No. 7.) 227 pages, 33 b/w plates.
Brepols Publishers NV, 2000.
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| Reinhard Strohm (ed.) The Eighteenth-Century
Diaspora of Italian Music and Musicians. (Speculum Musicae
No. 8.) 355 pages. Contents: REINHARD STROHM, Introduction;
REINHARD STROHM, Italian Operisti North of the Alps, c. 1700 -
c. 1750; NORBERT DUBOWY, Italienische Instrumentalisten in
deutschen Hofkapellen; THEOPHIL ANTONICEK, Österreich: Ein
gelobtes Land der italienischen Musik; SIMON MCVEIGH, Italian
Violinists in Eighteenth-Century London;
RUDOLF A. RASCH, The Italian Presence in the Musical Life of
the Dutch Republic; MARINA RITZAREV (RITZAREVA) AND ANNA
PORFIRIEVA, The Italian Diaspora in Eighteenth-Century Russia;
ELENA CERANINI, La canzonetta italiana nella vita musicale
londinese di fine Settecento; MICHELE CALELLA, Rivoluzioni e
querelles: la musica italiana alla conquista dell'Opéra. Brepols
Publishers NV, 2001.
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| Donald Burrows & Rosemary Dunhill. Music and
Theatre in Handel's World: Papers of James Harris, 1732-1780.
1256 pages. Oxford University Press, 2002.
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| Eva Zöllner. English Oratorio After Handel:
The London oratorio series and its repertory, 1760-1800.
Details. "The extensive appendices include a complete list
of all oratorio performances at the London theatres from 1760 to
1800 with vocal and instrumental soloists as well as a list of
manuscript scores and contemporary editions." Tectum Verlag
2002. 365 pages.
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| Kerala J. Snyder. The Organ as a Mirror of
its Time: North European Reflections, 1610-2000. 416 pages +
CD. Oxford University Press, 2002.
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| James Tyler & Paul Sparks. The Guitar and
Its Music: From the Renaissance to the Classical Era. 320
pages. Oxford University Press, 2002.
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| Maggie Kilbey. Curtal, Dulcian, Bajón: A
History of the Precursor to the Bassoon. 303 pages. 2002.
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| David Wyn Jones (ed.) Haydn. Oxford
Composer Companions. 544 pages. Oxford University Press, 2002.
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| Iain Fenlon. Music and Culture in Late
Renaissance Italy. 320 pages. Oxford University Press, 2002.
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| Jane Clark and Derek Connon. The Mirror of
Human Life: Reflections on François Couperin's Pièces de
Clavecin. King's Music 2002. 125 pages. Reviewed by David
Hansell in Early Music Review 86:6 (December 2002).
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| Tim Carter. Monteverdi's Musical Theatre.
"This impressive book is the first to survey Monteverdi's entire
output of music for the theater--his surviving operas, lost
operas, and other dramatic musical compositions." Yale
University Press, 2002. 336 pages.
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| David Ledbetter. Bach's Well-Tempered
Clavier: The 48 Preludes and Fugues.
Bach Bibliography Review. Yale University Press, 2002. 280
pages. 40 b/w & 12 color plates.
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| Jeremy Montagu. Timpani & Percussion.
Details. Yale University Press, 2002. 320 pages.
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| Ardal Powell. The Flute.
Details. Yale University Press, 2002.
Reviews. 360 pages. 42 b/w and 17 color plates.
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| Margaret N. Neuhaus. Edited by Ardal Powell.
The Baroque Flute Fingering Book.
Excerpts. Folkers & Powell. 2nd edition, 2002. 137 pages.
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| Daniel Leech-Wilkinson. The Modern Invention
of Medieval Music: Scholarship, Ideology, Performance.
Cambridge University Press, 2002. 350 pages.
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| Richard Will. The Characteristic Symphony in
the Age of Haydn and Beethoven. Cambridge University Press,
2002. 275 pages.
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| David G. Yearsley. Bach and the Meaning of
Counterpoint. Cambridge University Press, 2002. 275 pages.
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| John Butt. Playing with History: The
Historical Approach to Musical Performance. 276 pages.
Cambridge University Press, 2002.
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| David Crawford (ed.) Encomium Musicae:
Essays in Memory of Robert J. Snow. 773 pages. More than 40
articles, mostly by specialists in the music of Spain, Portugal
or the Hispanic New World.
Pendragon
Press 2002.
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| Howard Schott (ed.) The Historical
Harpsichord, Volume 4. Contents: "Harpsichord Decoration --
A Conspectus" by Sheridan Germann, and "A Fable Deconstructed --
The 1770 Taskin at Yale" by Richard Rephann.
Pendragon
Press 2002. 474 pages.
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| Susan Orlando (ed.) The Italian Viola da
Gamba: Proceedings of the International Symposium on the Italian
Viola da Gamba. 224 pages.
Edizioni Angolo Manzoni & Edition Ensemble Baroque de
Limoges. 2002. Reviewed in Early Music Review 85: 4-5
(November 2002). All thirteen papers are in English, some in
excellent translations by the editor. |
| Annette Otterstedt. The Viol: History of an
Instrument. Bärenreiter 2002. Translated by Hans Reiners.
Originally published in German in 1994. "This book is a
compendium and a practical guide for musicians and music lovers
alike, putting a great many problems and questions relating to
the viol, and music in general, into perspective. There is ample
material concerning such topics as the great gamba players, the
history of viol construction including regional developments,
the musical role of viols, reconstructions and forgeries, and
the practical aspects of viol playing."
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| Jesper Boje Christensen. 18th Century
Continuo Playing: A historical guide to the basics.
Bärenreiter 2002 (BA 8177). Translated by J. Bradford Robinson.
155 pages. Originally published in French and German in 1992.
From the review by Clifford Bartlett in Early Music Review
88:3 (March 2003): "The period covered is 1690 to 1735. The
instructions follow chiefly Dandrieu, Heinichen and Telemann,
and are set out coherently and sensibly." ISBN: M006505496. |
| Wilfred Mellers. Celestial Music -- Some
Masterpieces of European Religious Music.
Details.
Boydell Press 2002. A chapter on Byrd was summarized in
Annual Byrd Newsletter 9:2 (2003) as "provocative ideas
amidst outdated scholarship".
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| Meredith Little & Natalie Jenne. Dance and
the Music of J.S. Bach: Expanded Edition. 288 pages. Indiana
University Press, 2002.
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| Karl Hochreither. Performance Practice of
the Instrumental-Vocal Works of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Bach Bibliography Review. Translated by Melvin Unger. A
revised version of a book published in German in 1983. 217
pages. Scarecrow Press 2002.
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| Robert N. Freeman (ed.) Joseph Haydn and the
Eighteenth Century: Collected Essays of Karl Geiringer.
Harmonie Park Press 2002.
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| Doris Powers. C.P.E. Bach: A Guide to
Research. 350 pages. Garland 2002.
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| Peter Holman. From Renaissance to Baroque.
Ashgate, 2002.
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| Mara Parker. The String Quartet 1750-1797:
Four types of musical conversation. 330 pages. Ashgate 2002.
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| J.R. Mulryne & Elizabeth Goldring (eds.)
Court Festivals of the European Renaissance: Art, Politics,
Performance. 424 pages. Ashgate 2002.
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| Keri Dexter. "A Good Quire of Voices": The
provision of choral music at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle
and Eton College, c.1640-1733. 596 pages. Ashgate 2002.
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| H. Colin Slim. Painting Music in the
Sixteenth Century. 358 pages. Ashgate 2002.
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| Anthony Burton (ed.) A Performer's Guide to
Music of the Baroque Period. Contributors: Christopher
Hogwood - Introduction, George Pratt - Historical Background,
Peter Holman - Notation and Interpretation, Davitt Moroney -
Keyboard, Andrew Manze - Strings, Stephen Preston - Wind
Instruments, John Potter - Singing, Clifford Bartlett - Sources
and Editions. 144 pages. Book + CD.
Details. ABRSM Publishing 2002.
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| Anthony Burton (ed.) A Performer's Guide to
Music of the Classical Period. Contributors: Jane Glover -
Introduction, David Wyn Jones - Historical Background, Cliff
Eisen - Notation and Interpretation, David Ward - Keyboard,
Duncan Druce - Strings, Colin Lawson - Wind Instruments, Richard
Wigmore - Singing, Barry Cooper - Sources and Editions. 144
pages. Book + CD.
Details. ABRSM Publishing 2002.
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| Giacomo Fornari (ed.) Liber Amicorum Albert
Dunning in occasione del suo LXV compleanno. 788 pages.
List of articles. Brepols Publishers NV, 2002. |
| Jérôme de La Gorce. Jean-Baptiste Lully.
(In French.) 910 pages. Fayard 2002.
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| Alexandre Maral. La Chapelle royal de
Versailles sous Louis XIV. (In French.) 478 pages. Mardaga
(Centre de musique baroque de Versailles). 2002.
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| Philippe Beaussant. Le chant d'Orphée selon
Monteverdi. (In French.) 207 pages. Fayard. 2002.
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| Xavier Salmon. Madame de Pompadour et les
arts. (In French.) 543 pages. 600 illustrations, more than
250 in color. Based on an
exposition held at Versailles in 2002. Éditions de la
Réunion des Musées Nationaux. 2002.
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| Marcel Pérès & Xavier Lacavalerie. Le Chant
de la Mémoire: Ensemble Organum, 1982-2002. (In French.) 240
pages. Desclée de Brouwer, 2002.
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| Anne Walters Robertson. Guillaume de Machaut
and Reims: Context and Meaning in his Musical Works.
Cambridge University Press, 2002. 465 pages.
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| Emma Dillon. Medieval Music-Making and the
Roman de Fauvel. 318 pages. Cambridge University Press,
2002.
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| Margaret Bent. Counterpoint, Composition and
Musica Ficta. 368 pages. Routledge 2002.
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| Andreas Giger & Thomas J. Mathiesen (eds.)
Music in the Mirror: Reflections on the History of Music Theory
and Literature for the 21st Century. 331 pages.
Contents. University of Nebraska Press, 2002. Reviewed by
Clifford Bartlett in Early Music Review 91: 1 (June
2003).
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| Johan Norrback. A Passable and Good
Temperament: A new methodology for studying tuning and
temperament in organ music. 156 pages plus CD-ROM.
GOArt 2002.
Details in the
Organ Historical Society Catalog. |
| Clemens-Christoph von Gleich & Johann
Sonnleitner. Bach Tempo Guide with 200 practical exercises.
176 pages plus CD. GOArt (Göteborg University) 2002. ISBN:
9197391662. Details in the
Organ Historical Society Catalog. |
| Robert Lundberg. Historical Lute
Construction. 250 pages. Guild of American Luthiers, 2002.
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| P. Besutti (ed.) L'oratorio musicale
italiano e i suoi contesti (secc. XVII-XVIII). Olschki,
Florence 2002. 606 pages.
Details. ISBN: 8822251539 |
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