historical performance practice resources
Welcome to the flute-based resources for historical performance practices, including ornamentation, meter and tempo, rhetoric, and improvisation. This page is part of my article, "Real-time composition in the 18th century" in The Flutist Quarterly Spring 2015 issue. Go to the NFA Online for more information. The links will take you either to an actual piece of music in a modern edition or facsimile, a YouTube video, or to a website to buy the material (books or music). Each link takes you to music referred to in the article or to examples of the techniques discussed therein.
As you view the page you will see the material is divided into sections. music: printed; music: audio-visual; primary sources; secondary literature. The last category is divided into performance practice, rhetoric, and improvisation. Please note that the materials presented here are merely a dusting of ice on the tip of the iceberg and should by no means be considered a comprehensive list. They are, to be sure, a good place to begin your research into ornamentation and Baroque performance practices. If you have any questions about this material or are interested in additional sources, please send me an email. If enough people have similar questions I will respond to them by creating a blog post (click on the Blog tab above). If you would like to have a lesson or coaching in Baroque style, in person or virtually, please click on the "Lessons" tab above or below, and send me a message so we can schedule a day and time.
music: printed
- Michel Blavet, Six Sonatas, Op. 3
- J-J Quantz, Grave e sostenuto, from Six Sonatas, Op. 1
- Johann David Heinichen, Sonata in D, Largo
- Blavet, Ier, IIe, IIIe, recueil de pièces petits Airs Brunettes, Menuets . . . accomodé pour les Flûtes Traversières (ca.1750-55)
- Quantz, Capricen
music: audio-visual
- Heinichen, Largo from Sonata in D
- Blavet, Adagio from Sonata in A, Op. 3, no. IV
- JS Bach, Allemande from BWV 1013
- Quantz, Grave e sostenuto from Sonata IV, op. 1
primary sources
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Jacques-Martin Hotteterre
Table of Ornaments -
Hotteterre
Principles of the Flute, Recorder and Oboe - Quantz
On Playing the Flute -
Johann George Tromlitz
The Virtuoso Flute-Player. Translated and edited by Ardal Powell - George Houle
Meter in Music, 1600-1800: Performance, Perception, and Notation - Barthold Kuijken
The Notation Is Not the Music: Reflections on Early Music Practice and Performance - Jean-Claude Veilhan
The rules of musical interpretation in the baroque era (17th-18th centuries), common to all instruments -
RHETORIC:
- Dietrich Bartel
Musica Poetica: Musical-Rhetorical Figures in German Baroque Music - Judy Tarling
The Weapons of Rhetoric a Guide for Musicians and Audiences - Giorgio Sanguinetti
The Art of Partimento: History, Theory, and Practice - Rob C. Wegman, Johannes Menke, and Peter Schubert
Improvising Early Music. Edited by Dirk Moelants
secondary literature
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PERFORMANCE PRACTICE:
IMPROVISATION:
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