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The Performance of Italian Basso Continuo: Style in Keyboard Accompaniment in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.

Publication: Notes
Publication Date: 01-JUN-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: The Performance of Italian Basso Continuo: Style in Keyboard Accompaniment in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.(PERFORMANCE OF EARLY MUSIC)(Book review)

Article Excerpt
The Performance of Italian Basso Continuo: Style in Keyboard Accompaniment in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. By Guilia Nuti. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007. [xiv, 148 p. TSBN-10 0754605671; ISBN-13 9780754605676. $89.98.] Illustrations, music examples, bibliographic references, indexes.

This is a useful and attractive guidebook for harpsichordists who are either approaching the accompaniment of Italian vocal and instrumental music for the first time, or for the seasoned continuo player who might enjoy a refreshing tutorial after so many years of working in a personal and reliable style. Nuti has gathered a selection of source materials that will be welcomed by harpsichordists. This book offers an overview of materials that help to inform accompanying and differentiate national styles in performance.

Formulating an idea of style in continuo playing is an arduous if interesting process of reading through treatises...

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