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Historically informed performance

Index Historically informed performance

Historically informed performance (also referred to as period performance, authentic performance, or HIP) is an approach to the performance of classical music, which aims to be faithful to the approach, manner and style of the musical era in which a work was originally conceived. [1]

134 relations: Academy of Ancient Music, Alfred Deller, Andreas Scholl, Andreas Staier, Andrew Parrott, Antoine Forqueray, Appoggiatura, Arnold Dolmetsch, Artistic license, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Authenticity in art, Bar (music), Baroque music, Baroque orchestra, Baroque violin, Boy soprano, Brian Asawa, Carl Friedrich Abel, Castrato, Cello, Cello Suites (Bach), Charles Rosen, Christopher Hogwood, Classical music, Classical period (music), Claudio Monteverdi, Clavichord, Colin Tilney, Concert pitch, Conducting, Contralto, Countertenor, Daniel Leech-Wilkinson, Daniel Taylor (countertenor), Dates of classical music eras, David Daniels (countertenor), David Thomas (singer), Derek Lee Ragin, Diego Ortiz, Domenico Scarlatti, Early music, Early music revival, Embouchure, Emma Kirkby, English Baroque Soloists, Figured bass, Fortepiano, François Couperin, French Revolution, Georg Philipp Telemann, ..., George Frideric Handel, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Grand opera, Guitar, Gustav Leonhardt, Harpsichord, Henry Purcell, History of art, Iconography, Igor Kipnis, James Bowman (countertenor), Johann Mattheson, Johann Sebastian Bach, John Eliot Gardiner, John Hsu, Jordi Savall, Joseph Haydn, Julianne Baird, L'Orfeo, La Chapelle Royale, Latin, Latin regional pronunciation, List of early music ensembles, Lydia Goehr, Maria Callas, Marin Marais, Max van Egmond, Medieval music, Michael Chance, Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, Museum Speelklok, Musica Antiqua Köln, Musical temperament, Musicology, Neal Peres Da Costa, Nigel Rogers, Opera, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, OVPP, Paolo Pandolfo, Paul Badura-Skoda, Paul Dyer, Philippe Herreweghe, Philippe Jaroussky, Pipe organ, Pitch (music), Primary source, Ralph Kirkpatrick, Rebec, Recorder (musical instrument), Reinhard Goebel, Renaissance music, Richard Taruskin, Robert ap Huw, Robert Donington, Robert Hill (musician), Roger Scruton, Romantic music, Skip Sempé, Sound recording and reproduction, String section, Tablature, Taverner Consort and Players, Tempo, The English Concert, Thurston Dart, Timbre, Ton Koopman, Treatise, Tremolo, Trevor Pinnock, Unmeasured prelude, Urtext edition, Vibrato, Viol, Viola, Violin, Violone, Vittorio Ghielmi, Wanda Landowska, Wieland Kuijken, William Byrd, William Lawes, Yoshikazu Mera. Expand index (84 more) »

Academy of Ancient Music

The Academy of Ancient Music (AAM) is a period-instrument orchestra based in Cambridge, England.

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Alfred Deller

Alfred George Deller, CBE (31 May 1912 – 16 July 1979), was an English singer and one of the main figures in popularising the return of the countertenor voice in Renaissance and Baroque music during the 20th century.

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Andreas Scholl

Andreas Scholl (born 10 November 1967) is a German countertenor, a male classical singer in the alto vocal range, specialising in Baroque music.

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Andreas Staier

Andreas Staier (born 13 September 1955 in Göttingen) is a German pianist and harpsichordist.

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Andrew Parrott

Andrew Parrott (born 10 March 1947) is a British conductor, perhaps best known for his pioneering "historically informed performances" of pre-classical music.

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Antoine Forqueray

Antoine Forqueray (September 1672 – 28 June 1745) was a French composer and virtuoso of the viola da gamba.

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Appoggiatura

An appoggiatura (Vorschlag, Vorhalt; Port de voix) is a musical ornament that consists of an added non-chord note in a melody that is resolved to the regular note of the chord.

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Arnold Dolmetsch

Eugène Arnold Dolmetsch (24 February 1858 – 28 February 1940), was a French-born musician and instrument maker who spent much of his working life in England and established an instrument-making workshop in Haslemere, Surrey.

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Artistic license

Artistic license (also known as art license, historical license, dramatic license, poetic license, narrative license, licentia poetica, creative license, or simply license) is a colloquial term, sometimes a euphemism, used to denote the distortion of fact, alteration of the conventions of grammar or language, or rewording of pre-existing text made by an artist in the name of art.

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Australian Brandenburg Orchestra

The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra is an Australian period instrument orchestra specialising in the performance of baroque and classical music.

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Authenticity in art

Authenticity in art is the different ways in which a work of art or an artistic performance may be considered authentic.

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Bar (music)

In musical notation, a bar (or measure) is a segment of time corresponding to a specific number of beats in which each beat is represented by a particular note value and the boundaries of the bar are indicated by vertical bar lines.

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Baroque music

Baroque music is a style of Western art music composed from approximately 1600 to 1750.

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Baroque orchestra

The Baroque orchestra is the type of large ensemble for mixed instruments that existed during the Baroque Era of Western Classical music, commonly identified as 1600–1750.

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Baroque violin

A Baroque violin is a violin set up in the manner of the baroque period of music.

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Boy soprano

A boy soprano is a young male singer with an unchanged voice in the soprano range.

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Brian Asawa

Brian Asawa (October 1, 1966 – April 18, 2016) was a Japanese American opera singer who sang as a countertenor.

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Carl Friedrich Abel

Carl Friedrich Abel (22 December 1723 – 20 June 1787) was a German composer of the Classical era.

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Castrato

A castrato (Italian, plural: castrati) is a type of classical male singing voice equivalent to that of a soprano, mezzo-soprano, or contralto.

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Cello

The cello (plural cellos or celli) or violoncello is a string instrument.

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Cello Suites (Bach)

The six Cello Suites, BWV 1007-1012, are suites for unaccompanied cello by Johann Sebastian Bach.

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Charles Rosen

Charles Welles Rosen (May 5, 1927December 9, 2012) was an American pianist and writer on music.

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Christopher Hogwood

Christopher Jarvis Haley Hogwood CBE (10 September 194124 September 2014) was an English conductor, harpsichordist, writer, and musicologist.

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Classical music

Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western culture, including both liturgical (religious) and secular music.

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Classical period (music)

The Classical period was an era of classical music between roughly 1730 to 1820, associated with the style of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.

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Claudio Monteverdi

Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (15 May 1567 (baptized) – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, string player and choirmaster.

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Clavichord

The clavichord is a European stringed keyboard instrument that was used largely in the late Medieval, through the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical eras.

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Colin Tilney

Colin Tilney (born 31 October 1933) is a harpsichordist, fortepianist and teacher.

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Concert pitch

Concert pitch is the pitch reference to which a group of musical instruments are tuned for a performance.

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Conducting

Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance, such as an orchestral or choral concert.

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Contralto

A contralto is a type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range is the lowest female voice type.

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Countertenor

A countertenor (also contra tenor) is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range is equivalent to that of the female contralto or mezzo-soprano voice types, generally extending from around G3 to D5 or E5, although a sopranist (a specific kind of countertenor) may match the soprano's range of around C4 to C6.

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Daniel Leech-Wilkinson

Daniel Leech-Wilkinson is a musicologist, who is a Professor of Music at King's College London.

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Daniel Taylor (countertenor)

Daniel Taylor (born November 1969) is a Canadian countertenor and early music specialist.

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Dates of classical music eras

Music historians divide the European classical music repertory into various eras based on what style was most popular as taste changed.

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David Daniels (countertenor)

David Daniels (born 12 March 1966) is an American countertenor.

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David Thomas (singer)

Bass David Thomas was a member of the choir of King's College, Cambridge.

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Derek Lee Ragin

Derek Lee Ragin (born June 17, 1958) is an American countertenor.

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Diego Ortiz

Diego Ortiz (c. 1510 – c. 1570) was a Spanish composer and music theorist in service to the Spanish viceroy of Naples and later to Philip II of Spain.

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Domenico Scarlatti

Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti (Naples, 26 October 1685 Madrid, 23 July 1757) was an Italian composer who spent much of his life in the service of the Portuguese and Spanish royal families.

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Early music

Early music generally comprises Medieval music (500–1400) and Renaissance music (1400–1600), but can also include Baroque music (1600–1760).

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Early music revival

The general discussion of how to perform music from ancient or earlier times did not become an important subject of interest until the 19th century, when Europeans began looking to ancient culture generally, and musicians began to discover the musical riches from earlier centuries.

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Embouchure

Embouchure or lipping is the use of the lips, facial muscles, tongue, and teeth in playing a wind instrument.

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Emma Kirkby

Dame Carolyn Emma Kirkby, (born 26 February 1949) is an English soprano and one of the world's most renowned early music specialists.

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English Baroque Soloists

The English Baroque Soloists is a chamber orchestra playing on period instruments, formed in 1978 by English conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner.

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Figured bass

Figured bass, or thoroughbass, is a kind of musical notation in which numerals and symbols (often accidentals) indicate intervals, chords, and non-chord tones that a musician playing piano, harpsichord, organ, lute (or other instruments capable of playing chords) play in relation to the bass note that these numbers and symbols appear above or below.

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Fortepiano

A fortepiano is an early piano.

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François Couperin

François Couperin (10 November 1668 – 11 September 1733) was a French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist.

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French Revolution

The French Revolution (Révolution française) was a period of far-reaching social and political upheaval in France and its colonies that lasted from 1789 until 1799.

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Georg Philipp Telemann

Georg Philipp Telemann (– 25 June 1767) was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist.

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George Frideric Handel

George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (born italic; 23 February 1685 (O.S.) – 14 April 1759) was a German, later British, Baroque composer who spent the bulk of his career in London, becoming well-known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, and organ concertos.

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Girolamo Frescobaldi

Girolamo Alessandro Frescobaldi (also Gerolamo, Girolimo, and Geronimo Alissandro; September, 15831 March 1643) was a musician from Ferrara, one of the most important composers of keyboard music in the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods.

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Grand opera

Grand opera is a genre of 19th-century opera generally in four or five acts, characterized by large-scale casts and orchestras, and (in their original productions) lavish and spectacular design and stage effects, normally with plots based on or around dramatic historic events.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Gustav Leonhardt

Gustav Leonhardt (30 May 1928 16 January 2012) was a Dutch keyboard player, conductor, musicologist, teacher and editor.

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Harpsichord

A harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard which activates a row of levers that in turn trigger a mechanism that plucks one or more strings with a small plectrum.

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Henry Purcell

Henry Purcell (or; c. 10 September 1659According to Holman and Thompson (Grove Music Online, see References) there is uncertainty regarding the year and day of birth. No record of baptism has been found. The year 1659 is based on Purcell's memorial tablet in Westminster Abbey and the frontispiece of his Sonnata's of III. Parts (London, 1683). The day 10 September is based on vague inscriptions in the manuscript GB-Cfm 88. It may also be relevant that he was appointed to his first salaried post on 10 September 1677, which would have been his eighteenth birthday. – 21 November 1695) was an English composer.

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History of art

The history of art focuses on objects made by humans in visual form for aesthetic purposes.

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Iconography

Iconography, as a branch of art history, studies the identification, description, and the interpretation of the content of images: the subjects depicted, the particular compositions and details used to do so, and other elements that are distinct from artistic style.

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Igor Kipnis

Igor Kipnis (27 September 193023 January 2002) was a well-known American harpsichordist, pianist and conductor.

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James Bowman (countertenor)

James Thomas Bowman CBE (born 6 November 1941 in Oxford, England) is an English countertenor.

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Johann Mattheson

Johann Mattheson (28 September 1681 – 17 April 1764) was a German composer, singer, writer, lexicographer, diplomat and music theorist.

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Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a composer and musician of the Baroque period, born in the Duchy of Saxe-Eisenach.

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John Eliot Gardiner

Sir John Eliot Gardiner, CBE HonFBA (born 20 April 1943) is an English conductor, particularly known for his performances of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach and of other baroque music.

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John Hsu

John Tseng-Hsin Hsu (April 21, 1931 in Shantouhttp://as.cornell.edu/news/professor-emeritus-musician-and-scholar-john-hsu-dies – March 24, 2018 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina) was a viol player, barytonist, and cellist.

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Jordi Savall

Jordi Savall i Bernadet (born August 1, 1941) is a Spanish conductor and viol player.

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Joseph Haydn

(Franz) Joseph HaydnSee Haydn's name.

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Julianne Baird

Julianne Baird (born December 10, 1952 in Statesville, North Carolina) is an American soprano best known for her singing in Baroque works, in both opera and sacred music.

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L'Orfeo

L'Orfeo (SV 318), sometimes called La favola d'Orfeo, is a late Renaissance/early Baroque favola in musica, or opera, by Claudio Monteverdi, with a libretto by Alessandro Striggio.

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La Chapelle Royale

La Chapelle Royale is a French ensemble of baroque music.

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Latin

Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Latin regional pronunciation

Latin pronunciation, both in the classical and post-classical age, has varied across different regions and different eras.

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List of early music ensembles

An early music ensemble is a musical ensemble that specializes in performing early music of the European classical tradition from the Baroque era and earlier — broadly, music produced before about 1750.

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Lydia Goehr

Lydia Goehr is a Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University.

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Maria Callas

Maria Callas, Commendatore OMRI (Μαρία Κάλλας; December 2, 1923 – September 16, 1977) was a New York-born Greek soprano, one of the most renowned and influential opera singers of the 20th century.

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Marin Marais

Marin Marais (31 May 1656, Paris – 15 August 1728, Paris) was a French composer and viol player.

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Max van Egmond

Max van Egmond (born 1 February 1936 in Semarang) is a Dutch bass and baritone singer.

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Medieval music

Medieval music consists of songs, instrumental pieces, and liturgical music from about 500 A.D. to 1400.

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Michael Chance

Michael Chance CBE (born 7 March 1955) is an English countertenor and the founder and Artistic Director of The Grange Festival.

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Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe

Jean de Sainte-Colombe (ca. 1640–1700) was a French composer and violist.

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Museum Speelklok

Museum Speelklok (previously known as Museum van Speelklok tot Pierement) is a museum in Utrecht, The Netherlands.

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Musica Antiqua Köln

Musica Antiqua Köln was an early music group that was founded in 1973 by Reinhard Goebel and fellow students from the Conservatory of Music in Cologne.

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Musical temperament

In musical tuning, a temperament is a tuning system that slightly compromises the pure intervals of just intonation to meet other requirements.

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Musicology

Musicology is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music.

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Neal Peres Da Costa

Neal Peres Da Costa (born 1964) is an Australian harpsichordist, fortepianist and organist.

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Nigel Rogers

Nigel David Rogers (born 21 March 1935) is an English multilingual tenor, music conductor, singing teacher and vocal coach, who has sung in over seventy classical music album recordings in German, French, Italian, Latin and English, mostly of early music, baroque and sacred music, including works by Claudio Monteverdi, Handel, Purcell, and Bach.

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Opera

Opera (English plural: operas; Italian plural: opere) is a form of theatre in which music has a leading role and the parts are taken by singers.

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Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique

The Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, founded in 1989 by John Eliot Gardiner, performs Classical and Romantic music, using the principles and original instruments of historically informed performance.

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OVPP

One Voice Per Part (OVPP) is a musical term and neologism that refers to the practice of performing Baroque choral music, and Bach's works in particular, with single voices on each vocal line.

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Paolo Pandolfo

Paolo Pandolfo is an Italian virtuoso player, composer, and teacher of music for the viola da gamba.

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Paul Badura-Skoda

Paul Badura-Skoda (born 6 October 1927, Vienna) is an Austrian pianist, prolific recording artist, scholar and keyboard instrument collector.

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Paul Dyer

Paul David Dyer (born 24 January 1953 in Leicester, England) is an English former professional footballer who played as a midfielder for football league clubs Notts County and Colchester United, where he made over 100 appearances.

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Philippe Herreweghe

Philippe Herreweghe (born 2 May 1947, Ghent) is a Belgian conductor.

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Philippe Jaroussky

Philippe Jaroussky (born 13 February 1978) is a French countertenor.

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Pipe organ

The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurized air (called wind) through organ pipes selected via a keyboard.

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Pitch (music)

Pitch is a perceptual property of sounds that allows their ordering on a frequency-related scale, or more commonly, pitch is the quality that makes it possible to judge sounds as "higher" and "lower" in the sense associated with musical melodies.

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Primary source

In the study of history as an academic discipline, a primary source (also called original source or evidence) is an artifact, document, diary, manuscript, autobiography, recording, or any other source of information that was created at the time under study.

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Ralph Kirkpatrick

Ralph Leonard Kirkpatrick (June 10, 1911April 13, 1984) was an American musician, musicologist and harpsichordist.

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Rebec

The rebec (sometimes rebecha, rebeckha, and other spellings, pronounced or) is a bowed stringed instrument of the Medieval era and the early Renaissance era.

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Recorder (musical instrument)

The recorder is a woodwind musical instrument in the group known as internal duct flutes—flutes with a whistle mouthpiece.

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Reinhard Goebel

Reinhard Goebel (born 31 July 1952 in Siegen, West Germany) is a German conductor and violinist specialising in early music on authentic instruments and professor for historical performance at the Mozarteum in Salzburg.

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Renaissance music

Renaissance music is vocal and instrumental music written and performed in Europe during the Renaissance era.

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Richard Taruskin

Richard Taruskin (born 1945, New York) is an American musicologist, music historian, and critic who has written about the theory of performance, Russian music, 15th-century music, 20th-century music, nationalism, the theory of modernism, and analysis.

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Robert ap Huw

Robert ap Huw (or Hugh; c.1580 – 1665), was a Welsh harpist and music copyist.

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Robert Donington

Robert Donington (4 May 1907 – 20 January 1990) was a British musicologist and instrumentalist influential in the early music movement and in Wagner studies.

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Robert Hill (musician)

Robert Stephen Hill (born November 6, 1953 in Philippines) is an American harpsichordist and fortepianist.

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Roger Scruton

Sir Roger Vernon Scruton (born 27 February 1944) is an English philosopher and writer who specialises in aesthetics and political philosophy, particularly in the furtherance of traditionalist conservative views.

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Romantic music

Romantic music is a period of Western classical music that began in the late 18th or early 19th century.

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Skip Sempé

Skip Sempé (born 1958 in New Orleans) is an American harpsichordist and conductor of the ensemble Capriccio Stravagante.

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Sound recording and reproduction

Sound recording and reproduction is an electrical, mechanical, electronic, or digital inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects.

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String section

The string section is composed of bowed instruments belonging to the violin family.

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Tablature

Tablature (or tabulature, or tab for short) is a form of musical notation indicating instrument fingering rather than musical pitches.

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Taverner Consort and Players

The Taverner Choir, Consort and Players is a British music ensemble which specialises in the performance of Early and Baroque music.

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Tempo

In musical terminology, tempo ("time" in Italian; plural: tempi) is the speed or pace of a given piece.

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The English Concert

The English Concert is a baroque orchestra playing on period instruments based in London.

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Thurston Dart

Robert Thurston ("Bob") Dart (3 September 1921 – 6 March 1971), was an English musicologist, conductor and keyboard player.

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Timbre

In music, timbre (also known as tone color or tone quality from psychoacoustics) is the perceived sound quality of a musical note, sound or tone.

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Ton Koopman

Antonius Gerhardus Michael (Ton) Koopman (born 2 October 1944) is a Dutch conductor, organist and harpsichordist.

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Treatise

A treatise is a formal and systematic written discourse on some subject, generally longer and treating it in greater depth than an essay, and more concerned with investigating or exposing the principles of the subject.

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Tremolo

In music, tremolo, or tremolando, is a trembling effect.

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Trevor Pinnock

Trevor David Pinnock (born 16 December 1946) is an English harpsichordist and conductor.

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Unmeasured prelude

Unmeasured or non-measured prelude is a prelude in which the duration of each note is left to the performer.

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Urtext edition

An urtext edition of a work of classical music is a printed version intended to reproduce the original intention of the composer as exactly as possible, without any added or changed material.

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Vibrato

Vibrato (Italian, from past participle of "vibrare", to vibrate) is a musical effect consisting of a regular, pulsating change of pitch.

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Viol

The viol, viola da gamba, or (informally) gamba, is any one of a family of bowed, fretted and stringed instruments with hollow wooden bodies and pegboxes where the tension on the strings can be increased or decreased to adjust the pitch of each of the strings.

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Viola

The viola is a string instrument that is bowed or played with varying techniques.

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Violin

The violin, also known informally as a fiddle, is a wooden string instrument in the violin family.

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Violone

The term violone (literally "large viol" in Italian, "-one" being the augmentative suffix) can refer to several distinct large, bowed musical instruments which belong to either the viol or violin family.

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Vittorio Ghielmi

Vittorio Ghielmi (born 1968) is an Italian musician (viola da gamba), conductor, composer.

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Wanda Landowska

Wanda Aleksandra Landowska (5 July 1879 – 16 August 1959) was a Polish-French harpsichordist whose performances, teaching, recordings and writings played a large role in reviving the popularity of the harpsichord in the early 20th century.

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Wieland Kuijken

Wieland Kuijken (born Dilbeek, 31 August 1938) is a Belgian musician and player of the viola da gamba and baroque cello.

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William Byrd

William Byrd (birth date variously given as c.1539/40 or 1543 – 4 July 1623), was an English composer of the Renaissance.

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William Lawes

William Lawes (April 160224 September 1645) was an English composer and musician.

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Yoshikazu Mera

, born May 21, 1971, in Miyazaki, Japan, is a Japanese countertenor.

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References

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