Before the baton : musical direction and conducting in Stuart and Georgian Britain / Peter Holman.
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| Language: | English |
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Woodbridge :
The Boydell Press,
2020.
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| Series: | Music in Britain, 1600-1900.
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Table of Contents:
- To beat or not to beat : the continental context
- Directing choral music. Heard but not seen : leading Anglican cathedral music from the organ ; With a scroll of parchment or paper, in hand : large-scale choral music ; Accompanied all along on the organ by his own inimitable hand : Handel and the direction of his oratorios ; The conductor at the organ : the oratorio tradition after Handel
- Directing opera and theatre music. That ridiculous custom : from devolved direction to centralized time-beating in seventeenth-century theatre music ; Il maestro al cembalo : directing opera and theatre music from the harpsichord ; A new discipline and a new style of playing : directing opera and theatre music from the violin ; That powerful sovereign, the conductor : from the piano to the rostrum
- Superconductors or semiconductors? Lessons for today.