Tempo and tactus in the German Baroque : treatises, scores, and the performance of organ music / Julia Dokter.

"Before the advent of the metronome ca. 1800, there was little in the way of a standardized, commonly accessible method for precisely communicating how fast musical compositions should be performed. Instead of absolute time (e.g., plottable on a metronome), Baroque musicians developed notationa...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Dokter, Julia (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Rochester, NY, United States : University of Rochester Press, 2021.
Series:Eastman studies in music ; v. 178.
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