All course readings are available via Reading Lists on Canvas.The University library, together with on-line resources, including Naxos Music Library, are the primary source of material for this course.Required reading. There is no set textbook for the course; a general reading list is given below. specific reading lists or handouts will be distributed at relevant lectures.The following is a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. This list is not comprehensive, but is intended as a guide to the types of resources that may be relevant, particularly when exploring essay topics.
Primary SourcesBach, Carl Philipp Emmanuel. Essay on the True Art of playing Keyboard Instruments (Translated and edited by William J. Mitchell). New York: W.W. Norton, 1949.Bacilly, Bénigne de. A Commentary upon the Art of Proper Singing (Translated and edited by Austin B. Caswell Jr.). New York: Institute of Mediaeval Music, 1968.Couperin, Francois. L’Art de toucher le clavecin. Paris 1717. (Edited by A. Linde with English translation by M. Roberts). Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1933.Hotteterre, Jacques. Principles of the Flute, Recorder and Oboe. (Translated and edited by David Lasocki.). London: Barrie and Rockliff; New York: Praeger, 1968.Mozart, Leopold. A Treatise on the Fundamental Principles of Violin Playing (translated by Editha Knocker). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985.Quantz, Johann Joachim. On Playing the Flute. (Translated and edited by Edward R. Reilly). London: Faber and Faber; New York, The Free Press, 1968.Tosi, Pier. Francesco. Observations on the florid song. London: William Reeves, 1967.Türk, Daniel Gottlob, School of Clavier Playing or Instructions in Playing the Clavier for Teachers and Students (Translated by Raymond M. Haggh). Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1982.Walther, Johann Gottfried. Musicalisches Lexicon. Leipzig, 1732. Facsimile, ed. Richard Schaal. Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1953.
Secondary SourcesBrown, Clive. Classical and Romantic Performance Practice 1750-1900. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Brown, H.M., & Sadie, Stanley (eds.), Performance Practice: Music after 1600. London: Macmillan, 1989.Butt, John. Playing with History : The Historical approach to Musical Performance. Cambridge; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.Butt, John. Bach Interpretation : articulation marks in primary sources of J.S. Bach. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.Donington. R. The Interpretation of Early Music. London: Faber, 1974, (or revised ed., 1992)Harnoncourt, Nikolaus. Baroque Music Today: Music as Speech (translated by Mary O’Neill). Portland: Amadeus Press, 1988.Harnoncourt, Nikolaus. The Musical Dialogue: Thoughts on Monteverdi, Bach and Mozart (translated by Mary O’Neill). Portland: Amadeus Press, 1984.Lawton, C., and Stowell, R. The Historical Performance of Music: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.Newman, Anthony. Bach and the Baroque. New York: Pendragon Press, 1995.Rosenblum, Sandra P. Performance Practices in Classic Piano Music: Their Principles and Applications. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988.Sherman, Bernhard D. Inside Early Music: Conversations with Performers. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.Stowell, Robin. Violin Technique and Performance Practice in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.Tarling, Judy. The weapons of rhetoric: a guide for musicians and audiences. St. Albans : Corda Music, 2004 Taruskin, Richard. Text and Act: Essays on Music and Performance. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.Walls, Peter. History, imagination, and the performance of music. Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, N.Y. : Boydell Press, 2003.
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