Performance practice and technique in Marin Marais' Pièces de viole / by Deborah A. Teplow.

Author/creator Teplow, Deborah A., 1952-
Format Book
Publication InfoAnn Arbor, MI : UMI Research Press, ©1986.
Descriptionx, 156 pages : music ; 29 cm.
Subjects
Marais, Marin, 1656-1728. Pièces de violes, 1er-5e livre.
Viola da gamba--Performance.
Viola da gamba--Instruction and study.
Performance practice (Music)--History. --17th century.
Performance practice (Music)--History. --18th century.

SeriesStudies in musicology ; no. 93
Studies in musicology ; no. 93. ^A163772
Contents Preliminary aspects of technique. The written sources ; Body posture and position of the viol ; Left-hand position ; Tenue ; Bow grip ; Tuning ; The French sound ideal ; The basic bow stroke ; Ornamentation -- Menuet IV/5. Dance rhythm and the Coup d'Archet ; Bowing techniques ; Left-hand techniques ; Ornamentation ; Practice pieces -- Le basque IV/39. Les Pièces de Caracteres ; Bowing techniques ; Left-hand techniques ; Ornamentation ; Practice pieces -- Prelude I/2. The prelude ; Bowing techniques ; Left-hand techniques ; Clef changes ; Practice pieces -- Allemande IV/2. The allemande ; Bowing techniques ; Left-hand techniques ; Ornamentation ; Practice pieces -- Gavotte V/79. The gavotte ; Bowing techniques ; Left-hand techniques ; Practice pieces -- Gigue III/5. The gigue ; Bowing techniques ; Left-hand techniques ; Ornamentation ; Practice pieces -- Appendix: Sample suites.
Abstract This book, primarily written for gambists, was created to serve several purposes. First, the book offers a thorough and systematic method for the development and mastery of the specific performance techniques required by Marais' Pièces de viole and by extension, other works in the French baroque repertoire. The Pièces, over five hundred pieces elaborately detailed with performance indications, represent some of the best music ever written for solo viol and are unsurpassed in scope, quality, and depth of expression. All of the music included in the method is taken from Marais' five volumes of Pièces de viole, and the discussion of it is based on the information available from seventeenth- and eighteenth-century sources and from Marais' own explicit and elaborately detailed performance indications. Second, it is intended as a guide in the development of a more general and comprehensive technical foundation required by players of the French repertoire and the solo virtuoso music of other national schools. A third objective is to provide a description of the common dances and representative character pieces in the suites and to demonstrate how the musical expression is both dependent on and well served by the historically appropriate technique. A final objective is to provide a method that deals with most, if not all, of the technical and musical aspects presented in an entire piece of music so that the player understands the context in which these aspects are found. The material for each chapter is based on the musical and technical requirements of a single movement. All aspects of bowing, fingering, ornamentation, expressive nuances, and stylistic principles are discussed and are accompanied by appropriate exercises. Additional pieces which offer more practice in the techniques presented within the chapter are included at the end of each chapter.
General noteRevision of the author's thesis (Ph.D.--Stanford University, 1983).
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 139-145) and index.
LCCN 85020843
ISBN0835717143 (alk. paper)

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