Style and Performance for Bowed String Instruments in French Baroque Music

• Main Author: Cyr, Mary Professor (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxon Routledge 2016
• Subjects: Performance practice (Music) > 17th century > History > France; Performance practice (Music) > 18th century > History > France; Bowed stringed instruments > 17th century > History > Performance > France
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Mary Cyr addresses the needs of researchers, performers, and informed listeners who wish to apply knowledge about historically informed performance to specific pieces. Special emphasis is placed upon the period 1680 to 1760, when the viol, violin, and violoncello grew to prominence as solo instrumen...

Table of Contents:

• pt. 1. Sources and style in French baroque music. Historical context, musical works, and performance
• French and Italian musical style : the great divide
• pt. 2. Bowed string instruments in French ensembles. Strings in French ensembles
• Bass instruments of the violin and viol families in solo and ensemble roles
• pt. 3. Interpretation and style in French music for string players. Articulation
• Tempo, character, and inequality
• Ornamentation and special effects
• Basse Continue, pitch, and temprament
• pt. 4. Composer profiles. Marin Marais : viol player, composer, and teacher extraordinaire
• Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre's violin sonatas : what the sources do (and do not) tell us
• Jean-Baptiste Barrière, virtuoso French cellist and composer
• Forqueray's Pieces de viole avec la basse continuë : authorship and performance issues.