Jeffery Kite-Powell 
A Performer’s Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music, Second Edition [EPUB ebook] 

List of Illustrations
Octave Designation Chart
Preface to the Second Edition / Jeffery Kite-Powell
Preface to the First Edition / Stewart Carter
Acknowledgments

Part 1. Vocal/Choral Issues
1. National Singing Styles / Sally Sanford
2. The Bel Canto Singing Style / Julianne Baird
3. Choral Music in France and England / Anne Harrington Heider
4. Choral Music in Italy and the Germanic Lands / Gary Towne
Part 2. Wind, String, and Percussion Instruments
5. Woodwinds / Herbert Myers
6. Cornett and Sackbut / Bruce Dickey
7. Trombone / Stewart Carter
8. Trumpet and Horn / Steven E. Plank
9. Percussion and Timpani / John Michael Cooper
10. The Violin: Technique and Style / David Douglass
11. Historical Approaches to Playing the Violin / Julie Andrijeski
12. The Viola da Gamba Family / Stuart Cheney with Barbara Coeyman
13. Violoncello and Violone / Marc Vanscheeuwijck
14. Keyboard Instruments / Mark Kroll
15. Plucked String Instruments / Paul O’Dette
Part 3. Performance Practice and Practical Considerations
16. Ornamentation in Early Seventeenth-Century Italian Music / Bruce Dickey
17. Basso Continuo / Jack Ashworth and Paul O’Dette
18. Meter and Tempo / George Houle
19. Tuning and Temperament / Herbert Myers
20. Pitch and Transposition / Herbert Myers
Part 4. The Seventeenth-Century Stage
21. Dance / Dorothy Olsson
22. Theatrical Productions / James Middleton

Appendix A. List of Names and Dates
Appendix B. A Performer’s Guide to Medieval Music: Contents
Appendix C. A Performer’s Guide to Renaissance Music: Contents
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index

Jeffery Kite-Powell is Professor Emeritus at the Florida State University College of Music. He is translator of Michael Praetorius’s Syntagma Musicum III and editor of A Performer’s Guide to Renaissance Music, Second Edition (IUP, 2007).
Stewart Carter is Chair of the Department of Music at Wake Forest University, Executive Editor of the Historic Brass Society Journal, and former Editor of Historical Performance: The Journal of Early Music America.