Interpretation of the music of the 17th and 18th centuries : revealed by contemporary evidence / Arnold Dolmetsch ; R. Alec Harman.

Includes indexes

-- Expression -- Tempo -- Conventional alterations of rhythm -- Ornamentation. The appoggiatura The shake or trill The tremolo, Close shake Mordent, beat. Open shake, sweetening The turn, single relish The slide, elevation, double backfall, wholefall, slur, bearing The Springer (or Spinger). Accent. Acute. Sigh The "Anschlag" or Doppelsvorschlag The arpeggio. Battery. Broken chord Expressive rests Tempo rubato Acciaccatura, Pince Etouffe Zusammenschlag, Tatto Compound ornaments Divisions -- Figured basses -- Position and fingering -- The musical instruments of the period. The virginals The clavichord The organ The lute The viols The viola d'amore The violins The wood-wind instruments The brass instruments Combinations of instruments -- Appendix. Music examples

"This Dover edition, first published in 2005, is a republication in one volume of two works originally published by Novello and Co., London in 1915: The interpretation of the music of the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries and The interpretation of the music of the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries--Appendix. In order to accompany the text, the appendix has been reduced from its original size and reformatted with corresponding adjustments made in the contents page"--T.p. verso.