Preclassical - in essence, even music of the Classical period - is oriented to speech. This applies equally to its invention and its performance. lt is no accident that so many historical sources refer to music as a „speech in sound“. Nearly all the treatises of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries emphasize that a performance should be „clear“. For these reasons we felt that it was high time to bring together the source material dealing with articulation as applied to wind instruments, arranged in a clear manner and according to its historical development, to translate it, and to comment on it with a sharp-tipped pen. To be sure, what is of concern to wind players should be of equal interest to bowers and pluckers of stringed instruments as well as to keyboarders. This book, then, is less of a textbook, a practice method, or an introduction to early music than it is truly a source book - and at the same time an essential promise for the three functions mentioned above. This collection is a veritable goldmine of valuable knowledge. As such it is, so to speak, a "history of performance practice exemplified through articulation“.
Winterthur, 2007. 274 pp. 23x30cm. Idiomas: alemán / inglés. Encuadernación: cartoné con sobrecubierta.
