APPENDIX C

A Performer's Guide to Renaissance Music

Jeffery Kite-Powell, editor

Contents

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION

PART I. VOCAL/CHORAL ISSUES

1. The Solo Voice in the Renaissance ELLEN HARGIS

2. On Singing and the Vocal Ensemble I ALEXANDER BLACHLY

3. On Singing and the Vocal Ensemble II ALEJANDRO PLANCHART

4. Practical Matters of Vocal Performance ANTHONY ROOLEY

PART 2. WIND, STRING, AND PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS

5. Recorder HERBERT MYERS

6. Renaissance Flute HERBERT MYERS

7. Capped Double Reeds: Crumhorn-Kortholt-Schreierpfeif JEFFERY KITE-POWELL

8. Shawm and Curtal ROSS DUFFIN

9. Racket: Rackett, Rankett (Ger.), Cervelas (Fr.), Cervello (It.) JEFFERY KITE-POWELL

10. Bagpipe ADAM KNIGHT GILBERT

11. Cornett DOUGLASS KIRK

12. Sackbut STEWART CARTER

13. Bowed Instruments WENDY GILLESPIE

14. The Violin DAVID DOUGLASS

15. Plucked Instruments PAUL O'DETTE

16. The Harp HERBERT MYERS

17. Early Percussion BENJAMIN HARMS

18. Keyboard Instruments JACK ASHWORTH

PART 3. PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS/INSTRUMENTATION

19. Proto-Continuo JACK ASHWORTH AND PAUL O'DETTE

20. Mixed Ensembles JAMES TYLER

21. Large Ensembles JEFFERY KITE-POWELL

22. Rehearsal Tips for Directors ADAM KNIGHT GILBERT

23. Performance Editions FREDERICK GABLE

PART 4. PERFORMANCE PRACTICE

24. Tuning and Temperament ROSS DUFFIN

25. Pitch and Transposition HERBERT MYERS

26. Ornamentation in Sixteenth-Century Music BRUCE DICKEY

27. Pronunciation Guides ROSS DUFFIN

PART 5. ASPECTS OF THEORY

28. Eight Brief Rules for Composing a Si Placet Altus, ca. 1470–1510 ADAM KNIGHT GILBERT

29. Renaissance Theory SARAH MEADE

PART 6. INTRODUCTION TO RENAISSANCE DANCE

30. Early Renaissance Dance, 1450–1520 YVONNE KENDALL

PART 7. FOR THE EARLY MUSIC DIRECTOR

31. Starting from Scratch JEFFERY KITE-POWELL

 

APPENDIX A. APERFORMER'S GUIDE TO MEDIEVAL MUSIC: CONTENTS

APPENDIX B. APERFORMER'S GUIDE TO SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY MUSIC: CONTENTS

BIBLIOGRAPHY

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX