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This is the first book to address the full range of performance issues for the cello from the Baroque to the early Romantic period. The development of playing techniques and stylistic transitions are traced regionally through a comparison of Italian, French, German, English, and East European performance traits. Through a close study of contemporary violoncello methods, music, early instruments, periodicals, diaries, letters and pictures, Walden provides a cohesive overview which examines construction methods for instruments and bows, fingering and bowing techniques, special effects and ornamentation, accompanying skills and the stylistic preferences of the most famous soloists. Richly illustrated with over 300 music examples, plates and figures, this book provides playing instructions which can easily be applied by modern players to their own performance of period music.
One Hundred Years of Violoncello : A History of Technique and Performance Practice, 1740-1840 (Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs),Valerie Walden,John Butt,Laurence Dreyfus,Cambridge University Press,0521607612,18th century,19th century,General,Instruction & Study - Theory,Interpretation (Phrasing, dynamics, etc.),Music,Musical Instruments - Strings,Performance,Violoncello,Violoncello music,Classical music (c 1750 to c 1830),Music / General,String instruments,Violoncello--Performance,c 1700 to c 1800,c 1800 to c 1900
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