Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Note to the Reader
- List of Abbreviations
- Prelude To Beat or Not to Beat: The Continental Context
- Part I Directing Choral Music
- Chapter 1 ‘Heard but not Seen’: Leading Anglican Cathedral Music from the Organ
- Chapter 2 ‘With a Scroll of Parchment or Paper, in Hand’: Large- Scale Choral Music
- Chapter 3 ‘Accompanied all along on the Organ by his Own Inimitable Hand’: Handel and the Direction of his Oratorios
- Chapter 4 ‘The Conductor at the Organ’: The Oratorio Tradition after Handel
- Part II Directing Opera and Theatre Music
- Chapter 5 ‘That Ridiculous Custom’: From Devolved Direction to Centralized Time-Beating in Seventeenth-Century Theatre Music
- Chapter 6 ‘Il maestro al cembalo’: Directing Opera and Theatre Music from the Harpsichord
- Chapter 7 ‘A New Discipline and a New Style of Playing’: Directing Opera and Theatre Music from the Violin
- Chapter 8 ‘That Powerful Sovereign, the Conductor’: From the Piano to the Rostrum
- Postlude Superconductors or Semiconductors? Lessons for Today
- Bibliography
- Index
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Note to the Reader
- List of Abbreviations
- Prelude To Beat or Not to Beat: The Continental Context
- Part I Directing Choral Music
- Chapter 1 ‘Heard but not Seen’: Leading Anglican Cathedral Music from the Organ
- Chapter 2 ‘With a Scroll of Parchment or Paper, in Hand’: Large- Scale Choral Music
- Chapter 3 ‘Accompanied all along on the Organ by his Own Inimitable Hand’: Handel and the Direction of his Oratorios
- Chapter 4 ‘The Conductor at the Organ’: The Oratorio Tradition after Handel
- Part II Directing Opera and Theatre Music
- Chapter 5 ‘That Ridiculous Custom’: From Devolved Direction to Centralized Time-Beating in Seventeenth-Century Theatre Music
- Chapter 6 ‘Il maestro al cembalo’: Directing Opera and Theatre Music from the Harpsichord
- Chapter 7 ‘A New Discipline and a New Style of Playing’: Directing Opera and Theatre Music from the Violin
- Chapter 8 ‘That Powerful Sovereign, the Conductor’: From the Piano to the Rostrum
- Postlude Superconductors or Semiconductors? Lessons for Today
- Bibliography
- Index
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
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- Before the BatonMusical Direction and Conducting in Stuart and Georgian Britain, pp. v - viPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2020