The Performance of Italian Basso Continuo: Style in Keyboard Accompaniment in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries by Nuti, Giulia

Routledge, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. Brown cloth with dust wrapper. Music scores in text. Basso continuo accompaniment calls upon a complex tapestry of harmonic, rhythmic, compositional, analytical and improvisational skills. The evolving knowledge that underpinned the performance of basso continuo was built up and transmitted from the late 1500s to the second half of the eighteenth century, when changes in instruments together with the assertion of control by composers over their works brought about its demise. By tracing the development of basso continuo over time and across the regions of Italy where differing practices emerged, Giulia Nuti accesses this body of musical usage. Sources include the music itself, introductions and specific instructions and requirements in song books and operas, contemporary accounts of performances and, in the later period of basso continuo, description and instruction offered in theoretical treatises. Changes… Read More

Ashgate Pub Co, 2007. Hardcover. New. illustrated edition. 148 pages. 9.25x6.50x0.75 inches.

Ashgate Pub Co, 2007. Hardcover. New. illustrated edition. 148 pages. 9.25x6.50x0.75 inches.