A performer's guide to transcribing, editing, and arranging early music Alon Schab

9780197600696

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2022

286 pages: Illustrations(black and white)

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The book offers an introduction and a guide to three of the principal tasks with which performers of early music engage throughout their professional lives: (1) how to transcribe music from manuscripts and early prints; (2) how to use such historical sources when editing one's own performance material; and (3) how to arrange music for early instruments. Taking its cue from the founding generation of the early music revival, the book highlights ways in which the unprecedented accessibility of sources that musicians enjoy today, and the greater control that musicians now assume over various aspects of music production, may reinvigorate the early music revival and adapt it to a changing artistic world.

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November 07, 2022

Contents: Acknowledgments - Introduction: Early Music on the Page - 1. Historical Sources on the Concert Stage - 2. The Musical Text as a Point of Departure - 3. Different Works, Different Versions, Neither or Both? - 4. "The ear must be chief umpire" (Intuition and Critical Editing) - 5. Historically Informed Arrangement - 6. Writing for Early Instruments Today - Notes - References - Index