ABSTRACT

Performance practice is the study of how music was performed over the centuries, both by its originators (the composers and performers who introduced the works) and, later, by revivalists. This first of its kind Dictionary offers entries on composers, musiciansperformers, technical terms, performance centers, musical instruments, and genres, all aimed at elucidating issues in performance practice. This A-Z guide will help students, scholars, and listeners understand how musical works were originally performed and subsequently changed over the centuries. Compiled by a leading scholar in the field, this work will serve as both a point-of-entry for beginners as well as a roadmap for advanced scholarship in the field.

letter 1A|20 pages

entry |5 pages

Accentuation

entry |1 pages

Accidentals

entry |3 pages

Accompaniment

entry |2 pages

Acoustics

entry |1 pages

Adagio

entry |1 pages

Adam de la Halle

entry |2 pages

Afternote

entry |1 pages

Aichinger, Gregor

entry |2 pages

Air de cour

entry |1 pages

Alain, Jehan

entry |1 pages

Allegri, Gregorio

entry |1 pages

Allegro

entry |1 pages

Allemande

entry |1 pages

Alta ensemble

entry |3 pages

Alternatim

entry |1 pages

Ambrosian chant

entry |1 pages

Analysis.

entry |1 pages

Andante

entry |1 pages

Andantino

entry |2 pages

Anticipation

entry |1 pages

Anvil.

entry |3 pages

Appoggiatura

entry |1 pages

Aquitanian polyphony

entry |2 pages

Archlute

entry |1 pages

Ariosti, Attilio

entry |3 pages

Arpeggio

entry |3 pages

Articulation

entry |1 pages

Aspiration

entry |1 pages

Assimilation

entry |1 pages

Automatic music

letter 21B|37 pages

entry |1 pages

Babbitt, Milton

entry |2 pages

Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel

entry |1 pages

Bach, Johann Christian

entry |10 pages

Bach, Johann Sebastian

entry |2 pages

Bagpipe

entry |1 pages

Balancement

entry |1 pages

Balbastre, Claude-Bénigne

entry |1 pages

Band

entry |1 pages

Bandora

entry |1 pages

Barrel organ

entry |2 pages

Bartók, Béla

entry |1 pages

Baryton

entry |1 pages

Bassanello

entry |1 pages

Bass clarinet

entry |2 pages

Bass drum

entry |1 pages

Basse dance

entry |1 pages

Basset clarinet

entry |2 pages

Basset horn

entry |3 pages

Bassoon

entry |1 pages

Battement

entry |1 pages

Battre, H.

entry |1 pages

Bebung

entry |5 pages

Beethoven, Ludwig van

entry |2 pages

Bel canto

entry |1 pages

Bellini, Vincenzo

entry |2 pages

Bells

entry |1 pages

Benda, Franz

entry |1 pages

Benevoli, Orazio

entry |1 pages

Berg, Alban

entry |2 pages

Berlioz, Hector

entry |1 pages

Biber, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von

entry |2 pages

Billings, William

entry |2 pages

Binchois, Gilles de Bins [Binch] dit

entry |1 pages

Bladder pipe

entry |2 pages

Blanchard, Esprit Joseph Antoine

entry |1 pages

Blow, John

entry |1 pages

Bologna: San Petronio

entry |1 pages

Bombarde

entry |1 pages

Bombardon

entry |1 pages

Boulez, Pierre

entry |2 pages

Bourrée

entry |1 pages

Bowed guitar

entry |3 pages

Bows, bowing

entry |2 pages

Brahms, Johannes

entry |2 pages

Brass instruments

entry |2 pages

Breath marks

entry |1 pages

Bremner, Robert

entry |1 pages

Britten, Benjamin

entry |1 pages

Brown, Earle

entry |1 pages

Bruckner, Anton

entry |1 pages

Brumel, Antoine

entry |2 pages

Bull, John

entry |1 pages

Burgundy

entry |2 pages

Busnois, Antoine

entry |2 pages

Buxtehude, Dietrich

entry |1 pages

Byrd, William

entry |1 pages

Byzantine chant

letter 59C|58 pages

entry |1 pages

Cabanilles, Juan Battista José

entry |2 pages

Cabezón, Antonio de

entry |1 pages

Caccia

entry |1 pages

Caccini, Giulio

entry |1 pages

Cadent

entry |4 pages

Cadenza

entry |1 pages

Cage, John

entry |2 pages

Calando

entry |1 pages

Calixtinus Codex

entry |1 pages

Campra, André

entry |1 pages

Canarie

entry |1 pages

Cancion

entry |1 pages

Cantabile

entry |1 pages

Cantigas

entry |1 pages

Canti carnascialeschi

entry |1 pages

Cantio

entry |1 pages

Cantus coronatus

entry |1 pages

Canzona

entry |1 pages

Capirola Lute Book

entry |1 pages

Capriccio

entry |1 pages

Cara, Marchetto

entry |1 pages

Carissimi, Giacomo

entry |1 pages

Carnival songs

entry |1 pages

Carol

entry |1 pages

Caron, Philippe

entry |1 pages

Carter, Elliott

entry |1 pages

Castanets

entry |2 pages

Castrato

entry |1 pages

Cavalieri, Emilio de'

entry |2 pages

Cavalli, Francesco

entry |1 pages

Cavazzoni, Girolamo

entry |1 pages

Cazzati, Maurizio

entry |1 pages

Celesta

entry |4 pages

Cello

entry |1 pages

Cerone, Pietro

entry |2 pages

Cesti, Antonio

entry |1 pages

Ceterone

entry |1 pages

Chaconne

entry |2 pages

Chalumeau

entry |1 pages

Chambonnières, Jacques Champion

entry |4 pages

Chanson

entry |2 pages

Charpentier, Marc-Antoine

entry |1 pages

Cheironomy

entry |1 pages

Chekker

entry |1 pages

Cherubini, Luigi

entry |2 pages

Chiavette clefs

entry |1 pages

Chime bells.

entry |1 pages

Chitarrone

entry |8 pages

Choirs (polyphonic)

entry |2 pages

Chopin, Fryderyk

entry |2 pages

Chromatic harpsichord

entry |1 pages

Chûte

entry |1 pages

Cimbalon

entry |1 pages

Cima, Giovanni Paolo

entry |1 pages

Cimbasso

entry |2 pages

Citole

entry |2 pages

Cittern

entry |3 pages

Clarinet

entry |1 pages

Clarinette d'amour

entry |1 pages

Clausula

entry |4 pages

Clavichord

entry |1 pages

Clementi, Muzio

entry |1 pages

Collasse, Pascal

entry |2 pages

Cómes, Juan Bautista

entry |1 pages

Commedia dell'arte

entry |1 pages

Comodo

entry |1 pages

Concert halls

entry |1 pages

Concertina

entry |2 pages

Concerto

entry |1 pages

Concerto delle donne

entry |4 pages

Conducting

entry |2 pages

Conductus

entry |1 pages

Conforti, Giovanni Luca

entry |1 pages

Consort anthem

entry |1 pages

Consort song

entry |1 pages

Contemporary music notations

entry |5 pages

Continuo instruments

entry |1 pages

Continuo song

entry |2 pages

Contrabassoon

entry |1 pages

Cordier, Baude

entry |2 pages

Corelli, Arcangelo

entry |1 pages

Cornamusa

entry |2 pages

Cornet

entry |3 pages

Cornett

entry |1 pages

Correa de Arauxo, Francisco

entry |1 pages

Corrette, Michel

entry |1 pages

Corri, Domenico

entry |1 pages

Coulé

entry |2 pages

Countertenor

entry |3 pages

Couperin, François

entry |1 pages

Couperin, Louis

entry |1 pages

Courante, corrente

entry |1 pages

Cowbells

entry |1 pages

Cramer, Johann Baptist

entry |1 pages

Crowd

entry |2 pages

Crumhorn

entry |1 pages

Curtal

entry |2 pages

Cymbals

letter 117D|21 pages

entry |1 pages

Dalza, Joan Ambrosio

entry |3 pages

Dance

entry |1 pages

D'Anglebert, Jean-Henry

entry |2 pages

Debussy, Claude

entry |1 pages

Decorated repetitions

entry |1 pages

Devienne, François

entry |1 pages

Dieupart, Charles

entry |7 pages

Diminutions

entry |1 pages

Diruta, Girolamo

entry |1 pages

Discantus.

entry |1 pages

Division viol

entry |1 pages

Donizetti, Gaetano

entry |2 pages

Dotted notes

entry |1 pages

Double

entry |1 pages

Double appoggiatura

entry |2 pages

Double bass

entry |1 pages

Douçaine

entry |1 pages

Dowland, John

entry |1 pages

Drama and music

entry |1 pages

Drums

entry |2 pages

Ductia

entry |2 pages

Dufay, Guillaume

entry |1 pages

Dulce melos

entry |2 pages

Dulcian

entry |1 pages

Dulcimer

entry |1 pages

Du Mont, Henri

entry |2 pages

Dunstable, John

entry |1 pages

Durante, Ottavio

entry |1 pages

Dussek, Jan Ladislav

entry |1 pages

Dvorák, Antonin

entry |4 pages

Dynamics

letter 139E|6 pages

entry |3 pages

Editions

entry |1 pages

Eingang

entry |1 pages

Elevation toccata

entry |1 pages

Elgar, Edward

entry |1 pages

Emmett, Dan

entry |1 pages

Enchiriadis treatises

entry |1 pages

English discant

entry |1 pages

English horn

entry |1 pages

English monophony

entry |1 pages

English parish church music

entry |2 pages

English polyphony

entry |1 pages

Engramelle, Marie Dominique Joseph

entry |1 pages

Erickson, Robert

entry |1 pages

Esclamazione

entry |1 pages

Estampie

entry |1 pages

Euphonium

entry |1 pages

Expression

letter 145F|14 pages

entry |1 pages

Fabricius, Werner

entry |1 pages

Faburden

entry |1 pages

Faenza Codex

entry |2 pages

Falsettist

entry |1 pages

Falsobordone

entry |1 pages

Fantini, Girolamo

entry |1 pages

Farina, Carlo

entry |2 pages

Fauxbourdon

entry |2 pages

Fermata.

entry |1 pages

Festivals

entry |4 pages

Fiddle

entry |1 pages

Field, John

entry |1 pages

Fife

entry |1 pages

Fifthing

entry |1 pages

Finck, Hermann

entry |1 pages

Fingering.

entry |1 pages

Fitzwilliam Virginal Book

entry |1 pages

Flageolet

entry |1 pages

Flatté, flattement

entry |1 pages

Florentine monody.

entry |2 pages

Flugelhorn

entry |4 pages

Flute

entry |1 pages

Flutter-tonguing

entry |1 pages

Fontana, Giovanni Battista

entry |2 pages

Franck, César

entry |1 pages

French noel.

entry |1 pages

French overture.

entry |3 pages

Frescobaldi, Girolamo

entry |1 pages

Friction drum

entry |1 pages

Froberger, Johann Jacob

entry |1 pages

Frottola

entry |1 pages

Fuenllana, Miguel de

letter 159G|14 pages

entry |1 pages

Gabrieli, Andrea

entry |2 pages

Gabrieli, Giovanni

entry |1 pages

Gace Brulé

entry |1 pages

Gagliano, Marco da

entry |1 pages

Gai

entry |2 pages

Galliard

entry |1 pages

Galop

entry |1 pages

Gavotte

entry |1 pages

Geigenwerk

entry |1 pages

Geminiani, Francesco

entry |1 pages

Gershwin, George

entry |1 pages

Gesualdo, Carlo

entry |2 pages

Gibbons, Orlando

entry |1 pages

Gigault, Nicolas

entry |1 pages

Gigue

entry |1 pages

Giovanni da Cascia

entry |2 pages

Gittern

entry |1 pages

Glass harmonica

entry |1 pages

Glockenspiel

entry |1 pages

Gluck, Christoph Willibald

entry |1 pages

Goliard songs

entry |2 pages

Gombert, Nicolas

entry |1 pages

Gong

entry |3 pages

Grace note

entry |1 pages

Granados, Enrique

entry |1 pages

Grandi, Alessandro

entry |1 pages

Graupner, Christoph

entry |4 pages

Gregorian chant

entry |1 pages

Grieg, Edvard

entry |1 pages

Grossin, Estienne

entry |1 pages

Groppo

entry |2 pages

Guerrero, Francisco

entry |3 pages

Guitar

entry |1 pages

Gymel

letter 173H|22 pages

entry |6 pages

Handel, George Frideric

entry |1 pages

Harmonics

entry |5 pages

Harp

entry |4 pages

Harpsichord

entry |1 pages

Haute-contre.

entry |5 pages

Haydn, Franz Joseph

entry |2 pages

Heckelphone

entry |1 pages

Heinichen, Johann David

entry |1 pages

Hildegarde of Bingen

entry |1 pages

History and performance practice.

entry |1 pages

Hoftanz

entry |1 pages

Holborne, Antony

entry |1 pages

Holst, Gustav

entry |4 pages

Horn

entry |1 pages

Hummel, Johann Nepomuk

entry |2 pages

Hurdy-gurdy

entry |1 pages

Hymn

letter 195I|15 pages

entry |1 pages

Iconography.

entry |5 pages

Improvisation

entry |3 pages

Inequality

entry |6 pages

Instrumental ensembles

entry |3 pages

Instruments

entry |1 pages

Intabulations

entry |2 pages

Intermedii

entry |1 pages

Inverted mordent

entry |1 pages

Italian trecento polyphony

letter 211J|2 pages

entry |1 pages

Jacopo da Bologna

entry |1 pages

Jacquet de la Guerre, Élizabeth-Claude

entry |1 pages

Jenkins, John

entry |2 pages

Josquin Desprez

entry |1 pages

Justiniane

letter 213K|7 pages

entry |1 pages

Kalkbrenner, Friedrich Wilhelm

entry |1 pages

Keiser, Reinhard

entry |1 pages

Kettledrums.

entry |4 pages

Keyboard fingering

entry |3 pages

Keyboard instruments

entry |2 pages

Keyboard performance

entry |1 pages

Kirnberger, Johann Philipp

entry |1 pages

Kortholt

letter 221L|14 pages

entry |1 pages

La Barre, Michel de

entry |1 pages

L'Affilard, Michel

entry |1 pages

Lai

entry |1 pages

Lalande, Michel-Richard de

entry |2 pages

Landini, Francesco

entry |1 pages

Ländler

entry |1 pages

Lanier, Nicholas

entry |1 pages

Largo

entry |1 pages

La Rue, Pierre de

entry |3 pages

Lasso, Orlando di

entry |1 pages

Lauda

entry |1 pages

Lautenklavier

entry |1 pages

Lawes, William

entry |1 pages

Lead-in

entry |2 pages

Lebègue, Nicolas-Antoine

entry |1 pages

Leclair, Jean-Marie (l'ainé)

entry |1 pages

Legato

entry |1 pages

Léger

entry |1 pages

Legrenzi, Giovanni

entry |1 pages

Lento

entry |1 pages

Léonin

entry |1 pages

Liebert, Reginald

entry |1 pages

Lied

entry |2 pages

Lied

entry |1 pages

Lira da braccio

entry |1 pages

Lira da gamba

entry |1 pages

Lira organizzata

entry |2 pages

Liszt, Franz

entry |2 pages

Liturgical drama

entry |1 pages

Locatelli, Pietro Antonio

entry |1 pages

Locke, Matthew

entry |1 pages

Loqueville, Richard

entry |1 pages

Loulié, Ëtienne

entry |1 pages

Loure

entry |1 pages

Ludford, Nicholas

entry |3 pages

Lully, Jean-Baptiste

entry |4 pages

Lute

entry |2 pages

Lute-harpsichord

entry |1 pages

Lyra viol

letter 235M|28 pages

entry |2 pages

Machaut, Guillaume de

entry |1 pages

Madin, Henri

entry |2 pages

Madrigal

entry |1 pages

Madrigal comedy

entry |1 pages

Maestoso

entry |2 pages

Mahler, Gustav

entry |3 pages

Mandolin

entry |1 pages

Mandore

entry |1 pages

Mannheim

entry |1 pages

Marais, Marin

entry |2 pages

Marchesi, Luigi

entry |1 pages

Marenzio, Luca

entry |1 pages

Marimba

entry |1 pages

Martellement

entry |1 pages

Masque

entry |2 pages

Mass

entry |2 pages

Matteis, Nicola

entry |1 pages

Mattheson, Johann

entry |1 pages

Mazurka

entry |1 pages

Mechanical musical instruments

entry |2 pages

Mendelssohn, Felix

entry |1 pages

Mersenne, Marin

entry |1 pages

Merulo, Claudio

entry |1 pages

Messa di voce

entry |1 pages

Messiaen, Olivier

entry |2 pages

Meter and performance

entry |1 pages

Meyerbeer, Giacomo

entry |1 pages

Michael, Tobias

entry |2 pages

Minnesang

entry |2 pages

Minuet

entry |1 pages

Moderato

entry |1 pages

Molière

entry |2 pages

Mondonville, Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de

entry |1 pages

Monochord

entry |1 pages

Monochord, bowed

entry |1 pages

Monody

entry |1 pages

Monodrama

entry |1 pages

Montéclair, Michel Pignolet de

entry |3 pages

Monteverdi, Claudio

entry |3 pages

Mordent

entry |1 pages

Morendo

entry |2 pages

Motet

entry |1 pages

Mozarabic chant

entry |6 pages

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

entry |1 pages

Muffat, Georg

entry |1 pages

Multiple stops

entry |4 pages

Musica ficta

entry |1 pages

Musical boxes.

entry |1 pages

Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich

entry |1 pages

Mute

entry |2 pages

Mystery plays

letter 263N|4 pages

entry |1 pages

Nachschlag

entry |1 pages

Nakers

entry |2 pages

Nivers, Guillaume

entry |1 pages

Noel

entry |1 pages

Notes inégales

entry |3 pages

Notre Dame polyphony

letter 267O|30 pages

entry |3 pages

Oboe

entry |2 pages

Oboe da caccia

entry |1 pages

Oboe d'amore

entry |1 pages

Obrecht, Jacob

entry |2 pages

Ockeghem, Johannes

entry |1 pages

Old Hall Manuscript

entry |1 pages

Ondeggiando

entry |1 pages

Open form

entry |3 pages

Opera

entry |1 pages

Ophicleide

entry |2 pages

Oratorio

entry |6 pages

Orchestra

entry |6 pages

Organ

entry |1 pages

Organistrum

entry |1 pages

Organ mass

entry |4 pages

Organ registration

entry |2 pages

Organum

entry |2 pages

Original instruments

entry |4 pages

Ornaments

entry |1 pages

Orpharion

entry |4 pages

Overdotting

entry |1 pages

Overture

letter 297P|29 pages

entry |1 pages

Pacelli, Asprilio

entry |1 pages

Pachelbel, Johann

entry |1 pages

Padovana

entry |1 pages

Paganini, Niccolò

entry |2 pages

Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da

entry |1 pages

Pantaleon

entry |1 pages

Pasquini, Bernardo

entry |1 pages

Passacaglia

entry |1 pages

Passepied

entry |2 pages

Pastourelle

entry |1 pages

Paumann, Conrad

entry |1 pages

Pavane

entry |1 pages

Pedal pianoforte

entry |1 pages

Pelplin Tablature

entry |1 pages

Penderecki, Krzysztof

entry |1 pages

Peraza, Francisco de

entry |2 pages

Percussion

entry |2 pages

Performance styles

entry |1 pages

Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista

entry |2 pages

Peri, Jacopo

entry |1 pages

Pérotin

entry |1 pages

Phrasing

entry |8 pages

Piano

entry |2 pages

Piano pedaling

entry |1 pages

Piccolo

entry |2 pages

Pipe and tabor

entry |5 pages

Pitch

entry |1 pages

Piva

entry |1 pages

Pizzicato

entry |1 pages

Player piano

entry |1 pages

Plica

entry |1 pages

Pochette

entry |1 pages

Polonaise

entry |2 pages

Polychoral music

entry |2 pages

Portamento

entry |2 pages

Portative

entry |2 pages

Portato

entry |1 pages

Port de voix

entry |2 pages

Praetorius, Michael

entry |1 pages

Prall-Triller

entry |1 pages

Preludes non mesuré.

entry |1 pages

Prepared piano

entry |1 pages

Processions

entry |2 pages

Pronunciation

entry |1 pages

Proportions.

entry |2 pages

Psaltery

entry |3 pages

Purcell, Henry

letter 327Q|2 pages

entry |1 pages

Quantz, Johann Joachim

entry |2 pages

Quiebro

entry |1 pages

Quinton

letter 329R|18 pages

entry |1 pages

Rachmaninoff, Sergei

entry |2 pages

Racket

entry |1 pages

Ragtime

entry |1 pages

Rallentando

entry |2 pages

Rameau, Jean-Philippe

entry |1 pages

Rauschpfeife

entry |1 pages

Ravel, Maurice

entry |3 pages

Rebec

entry |1 pages

Recitative cadences

entry |3 pages

Recorder

entry |2 pages

Recordings

entry |1 pages

Redoble

entry |1 pages

Regal

entry |2 pages

Reger, Max

entry |1 pages

Reicha, Anton

entry |1 pages

Reincken, Johann Adam

entry |1 pages

Relish

entry |1 pages

Repeat conventions

entry |1 pages

Rhetoric and musical performance

entry |3 pages

Rhythmic alteration

entry |2 pages

Rhythmic assimilation

entry |1 pages

Ribattuta di gola

entry |1 pages

Rigaudon

entry |1 pages

Rinforzando

entry |2 pages

Ritardando

entry |1 pages

Robertsbridge fragment

entry |2 pages

Robinson, Thomas

entry |1 pages

Rognoni Taeggio, Francesco

entry |1 pages

Roman de Fauvel

entry |1 pages

Roman sacred music

entry |1 pages

Rossini, Gioachino

entry |1 pages

Rota

entry |4 pages

Rubato

entry |2 pages

Russian sacred music

letter 347S|30 pages

entry |1 pages

Saint Martial polyphony

entry |1 pages

Saltarello

entry |1 pages

Sammartini, Giovanni Battista

entry |2 pages

Sanglot

entry |1 pages

Santa María, Tomás de

entry |1 pages

Santiago de Compostela

entry |1 pages

Sanz, Gaspar

entry |1 pages

Sarabande

entry |1 pages

Sarrusophone

entry |2 pages

Saxophone

entry |1 pages

Scarlatti, Alessandro

entry |2 pages

Scarlatti, Domenico

entry |1 pages

Scheidt, Samuel

entry |1 pages

Scherzo

entry |1 pages

Schlick, Arnolt

entry |2 pages

Schneller

entry |1 pages

Schreyerpfeife

entry |2 pages

Schoenberg, Arnold

entry |2 pages

Schubert, Franz

entry |2 pages

Schumann, Robert

entry |2 pages

Schütz, Heinrich

entry |1 pages

Schuyt, Cornelis

entry |1 pages

Scordatura

entry |2 pages

Scriabin, Alexander

entry |1 pages

Sequence

entry |1 pages

Serpent

entry |1 pages

Severi, Francesco

entry |3 pages

Shawm

entry |1 pages

Short octave

entry |1 pages

Shostakovich, Dmitri

entry |1 pages

Sibelius, Jean

entry |1 pages

Side drum

entry |5 pages

Singing

entry |1 pages

Sleigh bells

entry |3 pages

Slide

entry |3 pages

Slide trumpet

entry |2 pages

Slurs

entry |1 pages

Snare drum.

entry |1 pages

Solage

entry |1 pages

Song.

entry |2 pages

Sordun

entry |1 pages

Spinet

entry |1 pages

Sprechstimme

entry |1 pages

Spohr, Louis

entry |1 pages

Sprezzatura

entry |1 pages

Springer

entry |1 pages

Staccato

entry |2 pages

Staging

entry |1 pages

Steibelt, Daniel

entry |1 pages

Stockhausen, Karlheinz

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Stradella, Alessandro

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Strauss, Johann, Jr.

entry |2 pages

Strauss, Richard

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Stravinsky, Igor

entry |4 pages

String instruments

entry |1 pages

Strokes

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Strozzi, Gregorio

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Style brisé

entry |1 pages

Substitution mass.

entry |1 pages

Sul ponticello

entry |1 pages

Suspension

entry |1 pages

Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon

entry |1 pages

Symphonia

letter 377T|50 pages

entry |1 pages

Tablature

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Tabor

entry |4 pages

Tactus

entry |1 pages

Tallis, Thomas

entry |1 pages

Tambourin de provence

entry |1 pages

Tambourine

entry |1 pages

Tam-tam.

entry |1 pages

Tans'ur, William

entry |1 pages

Tárrega, Francisco

entry |1 pages

Tartini, Giuseppe

entry |2 pages

Taste

entry |1 pages

Taylor, Rayner

entry |1 pages

Tchaikovsky, Piotr Ilyich

entry |1 pages

Telemann, Georg Philipp

entry |6 pages

Tempo

entry |1 pages

Tenor drum

entry |1 pages

Tenor violin

entry |1 pages

Tenue

entry |1 pages

Tenuto

entry |3 pages

Text underlay

entry |1 pages

Theatrical presentations.

entry |2 pages

Theorbo

entry |1 pages

Theorists on performance.

entry |7 pages

Thorough bass

entry |1 pages

Tierce de coulé

entry |4 pages

Timpani

entry |1 pages

Tirade

entry |1 pages

Titelouze, Jehan

entry |1 pages

Toccata

entry |1 pages

Tomkins, Thomas

entry |3 pages

Tonguing

entry |1 pages

Torelli, Giuseppe

entry |1 pages

Tour de gossier

entry |2 pages

Trabaci, Giovanni Maria

entry |1 pages

Tragen der Töne.

entry |1 pages

Transposing instruments

entry |1 pages

Trecento polyphony.

entry |1 pages

Tremolo

entry |1 pages

Triangle

entry |6 pages

Trill

entry |1 pages

Trillo

entry |1 pages

Trio sonata

entry |4 pages

Trombone

entry |3 pages

Troubadours, trouvères

entry |5 pages

Trumpet

entry |1 pages

Trumpet marine

entry |2 pages

Tuba

entry |1 pages

Tubular bells

entry |1 pages

Tunder, Franz

entry |7 pages

Tuning and temperament

entry |1 pages

Tuning forks

entry |1 pages

Turini, Francesco

entry |4 pages

Turn

letter 427U|3 pages

entry |1 pages

Uccellini, Marco

entry |2 pages

United States

entry |2 pages

Unmeasured preludes

entry |1 pages

Urtext.

letter 431V|29 pages

entry |1 pages

Valencia

entry |1 pages

Varèse, Edgard

entry |1 pages

Variations

entry |1 pages

Vaughan Williams, Ralph

entry |1 pages

Vecchi, Orazio

entry |2 pages

Venice, St. Mark's

entry |1 pages

Venues for performance

entry |4 pages

Verdi, Giuseppe

entry |1 pages

Verset

entry |1 pages

Verse anthem

entry |1 pages

Viadana, Lodovico

entry |1 pages

Vibraphone

entry |6 pages

Vibrato

entry |1 pages

Vicentino, Nicola

entry |1 pages

Vienna

entry |3 pages

Vihuela

entry |1 pages

Villancico

entry |5 pages

Viol

entry |2 pages

Viola

entry |1 pages

Viola bastarda

entry |1 pages

Viola d'amore

entry |1 pages

Viola pomposa

entry |2 pages

Violetta

entry |5 pages

Violin

entry |1 pages

Violino piccolo

entry |2 pages

Violoncello piccolo

entry |1 pages

Violone

entry |2 pages

Viotti, Giovanni Battista

entry |1 pages

Virdung, Sebastian

entry |2 pages

Virginals

entry |1 pages

Vite

entry |1 pages

Vitry, Philippe de

entry |2 pages

Vivaldi, Antonio

entry |4 pages

Voice types

entry |1 pages

Voluntary

letter 461W|8 pages

entry |1 pages

Wagenseil, Georg Christoph

entry |3 pages

Wagner, Richard

entry |1 pages

Wagner tuba.

entry |1 pages

Waldhorn

entry |2 pages

Walther von der Vogelweide

entry |1 pages

Waltz

entry |2 pages

Weber, Carl Maria von

entry |1 pages

Webern, Anton

entry |1 pages

Weill, Kurt

entry |1 pages

Wert, Giaches de

entry |1 pages

Widor, Charles-Marie

entry |2 pages

Willaert, Adrian

entry |1 pages

Winchester Troper

entry |1 pages

Wind machine

entry |1 pages

Wolf, Hugo

entry |1 pages

Wood blocks

entry |3 pages

Woodwind instruments

letter 469XYZ|2 pages

entry |1 pages

Xenakis, Iannis

entry |1 pages

Xylophone

entry |1 pages

Ysayë, Eugène

entry |1 pages

Zabern, Conrad von

entry |1 pages

Zacconi, Lodocivo

entry |1 pages

Zanetti, Gasparo

entry |1 pages

Zarlino, Gioseffo

entry |1 pages

Zither