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... player and to the listener ; it also trains the player to be simultaneously quick in reading , thinking , listening and acting . But it is an art that takes a long time to master . Only the rudiments can be learned from a book and there ...
... player and to the listener ; it also trains the player to be simultaneously quick in reading , thinking , listening and acting . But it is an art that takes a long time to master . Only the rudiments can be learned from a book and there ...
Page 76
... player . A bad player can make either of these instruments sound very dismal indeed , and earlier ages were more sensitive than we have yet become to the shortcomings of bad players and to the beauties of good touch . A con- temporary ...
... player . A bad player can make either of these instruments sound very dismal indeed , and earlier ages were more sensitive than we have yet become to the shortcomings of bad players and to the beauties of good touch . A con- temporary ...
Page 119
... player would know how to make the necessary adjust- ments to the text at repeats , but the notation they used may sometimes mislead the modern player . Thus a final chord after : || : is , as often as not , merely what would correspond ...
... player would know how to make the necessary adjust- ments to the text at repeats , but the notation they used may sometimes mislead the modern player . Thus a final chord after : || : is , as often as not , merely what would correspond ...
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Adagio Avison Bach's baroque bass bass-line bassoon C. P. E. Bach choir chords church clavichord composer's composers concerto consort contemporary continuo continuo instruments continuo-playing contratenor Corelli cornetts Couperin crotchet crumhorns dances double-bass early music editor eighteenth eighteenth-century English ensemble extemporization Facsimile figured bass flute fortepiano French style fugue German Handel harmony harpsichord Haydn improvised instance interpretation Italian style keyboard instrument keyboard music kind lute madrigal manuscripts medieval medieval music modern edition mordent motet movement Mozart music written musician mute cornett notation note-values notes oboe old music orchestra organ original ornaments part-books performance piano piece plainsong played player polyphonic present-day printed Purcell Purcell's quavers Renaissance roulades sarabande scholar seventeenth century shawm singers singing sixteenth century slow slur solo sonatas song sonorities sound strings sung symbols taste technique tempo tenor theorbo tone tone-colours treble trill trombones trumpets tune vibrato viol viola violin vocal voices writing