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30 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
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A detailed discussion of Baroque sources of ornamentation,
By McIrvine@IX.Netcom.Com (New York) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Ornamentation in Baroque and Post-Baroque Music, with Special Emphasis on J.S. Bach (Paperback)
Books concerning performance practice are by their very nature controversial, and we can't ask Bach, Handel, or Telemann what they actually meant when they used a short-hand symbol or expected a performer to improvise a decoration. Or can we? Professor Neumann has compiled a volume based on writings in the Baroque era that attempts (successfully in my opinion) to provide some clues to the sketchy musical notations of busy and prolific composers in the Baroque era. His ideas are indeed controversial, but I think that they are well-reasoned and often brilliant. His knowledge of sources in the Baroque is magnificent, and his arguments are keenly-reasoned. This is a book of somewhat limited readership. Performers and scholars who play or edit Baroque music will find this to be a useful reference with a strong idex, a good bibliography, and a helpful guide to solving questions of decoration. Those who don't have an active involvement with Baroque music will find the book cryptic.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Any baroque enthusiast should own this book.,
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This review is from: Ornamentation in Baroque and Post-Baroque Music, with Special Emphasis on J.S. Bach (Paperback)
This book is a must have for any serious musician who performs any Baroque music, even if you aren't a period performer. The text gets tedious, but the knowledge presented is well worth the work.
I do wish there was more research on earlier 17th Century ornamentation practices.
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Not recommended,
This review is from: Ornamentation in Baroque and Post-Baroque Music, with Special Emphasis on J.S. Bach (Paperback)
The methods and conclusions of Prof. Frederick Neumann's works (publ. in the decades 1970-1990) were rebutted by specialists in Early Music and other publications. This widely-read book makes fascinating and thought-provoking remarks. However (see full analysis in a recent publication: http://play.braybaroque.ie ) the main thesis of Prof. Neumann on Ornamentation (that there were frequent pre-beat trills and mordents in Baroque music) is thoroughly unfounded. This conclusion is not new, being agreed upon by all the present-day scholarly sources on Baroque ornamentation I have been able to find.
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In all the fields of baroque art, ornamentation played a conspicuous role. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
onbeat start, multiple mordent, compound trill, onbeat placement, anticipated auxiliary, voix feint, anticipatione della syllaba, tremulus ascendens, anticipatione della nota, miniature trill, notes postiches, tremulus descendens, gamba vibrato, trill model, linear arpeggio, mezzo groppo, unprepared trill, trill designs, single mordent, term acciaccatura, appoggiatura meaning, double cadence coupée, other small ornaments, regular trill, cercar della nota Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Saint Lambert, Philipp Emanuel, The German Trill, Bach's Trill, Chorale Prelude, Leopold Mozart, L'abbé Duval, Dalla Casa, Jean Rousseau, Matthew Passion, Organ Sonata, Baroque Trends of Ornamentation, Berlin School, English Suite, Sainte Colombe, Goldberg Variations, Domenico Scarlatti, Theophil Muffat, Unaccompanied Violin, Francesco Rognoni, Santa Maria, Christmas Oratorio, Marin Marais, New York, Jean Jacques Rousseau New!
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In all the fields of baroque art, ornamentation played a conspicuous role. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
onbeat start, multiple mordent, compound trill, onbeat placement, anticipated auxiliary, voix feint, anticipatione della syllaba, tremulus ascendens, anticipatione della nota, miniature trill, notes postiches, tremulus descendens, gamba vibrato, trill model, linear arpeggio, mezzo groppo, unprepared trill, trill designs, single mordent, term acciaccatura, appoggiatura meaning, double cadence coupée, other small ornaments, regular trill, cercar della nota Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Saint Lambert, Philipp Emanuel, The German Trill, Bach's Trill, Chorale Prelude, Leopold Mozart, L'abbé Duval, Dalla Casa, Jean Rousseau, Matthew Passion, Organ Sonata, Baroque Trends of Ornamentation, Berlin School, English Suite, Sainte Colombe, Goldberg Variations, Domenico Scarlatti, Theophil Muffat, Unaccompanied Violin, Francesco Rognoni, Santa Maria, Christmas Oratorio, Marin Marais, New York, Jean Jacques Rousseau New!
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- Goldberg Variations: Piano Solo (Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics) by Ralph Kirkpatrick on 10 pages
- Englishche Suiten (Music Scores) by Johann Sebastian Bach on 7 pages
- Musical Ornamentation (Music Primers) by Edward Dannreuther in Front Matter, page 26, and Back Matter
- The Bach Reader: A Life of Johann Sebastian Bach in Letters and Documents, Revised Edition by Hans T. David on page 41, page 544, and Back Matter
- Embellishing Sixteenth-Century Music [Early Music Series: I] by Howard Mayer Brown on page 21, and Back Matter
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- Classical Music Criticism (Perspectives in Music Criticism and Theory, Vol 2) by Robert D. Schick on page 29, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- 18th-Century Keyboard Music (Routledge Studies in Musical Genre) by Robert Marshall on page 67, page 122, and page 189
- The Early Violin and Viola: A Practical Guide (Cambridge Handbooks to the Historical Performance of Music) by Robin Stowell in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Cambridge Companion to the Recorder (Cambridge Companions to Music) by John Mansfield Thomson on page 73, and page 217
- Method for the One-Keyed Flute by Janice Dockendorff Boland on page 61, and Back Matter
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