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The interpretation of the music of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries : revealed by contemporary evidence by ARNOLD DOLMETSCH With an Introduction by R.Alec Harman, By Arnold Dolmetsch, with an introduction by R. Alec Harman is a book available to read on EtoBox.

This1915 study remains a landmark of musicology, offering not only a text on performance practices of the baroque but also glimpses of what music meant both as an art and a science to musicians of the period. Topics include tempo, rhythm, ornamentation, wrist positioning and fingering, instruments of the era, more.

Author
ARNOLD DOLMETSCH With an Introduction by R.Alec Harman, By Arnold Dolmetsch, with an introduction by R. Alec Harman
Publisher
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Published
1980
Language
EN
ISBN
9780295785783
Subjects
Music, Arts