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 740-239 Performance Practice (Early Music)

Credit Points

12.5

Coordinator

Professor J Griffiths

Prerequisites

740-136 Music Performance 2

Semester

2

Contact

A 2 hour class per week

Subject Description

On completion of this subject students should have a working knowledge of the sources and principles of embellishment and other aspects of baroque performance practice and be able to realise these on their instruments. Topics to be covered include: a study of selected 17th and 18th century performance practice sources; practical instruction in the realisation of specific performance practice techniques.

Assessment

20 minute practical examination in the application of performance practice techniques to selected works (60%); 1500 word written assignment (20%); Participation in classes (20%).

Prescribed Texts
  • H.M. Brown and S. Sadie, Performance Practice: Music after 1600. (London: Macmillan, 1989).
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