Download or read book Performance Practice: Music before 1600 written by Howard Mayer Brown and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1990 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook, an entirely new work, is not simply another guide to the performance of music of the past; it is, rather, a book about the study of past performance. Each main section - Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Twentieth Century - contains an introduction dealing with contexts of performance as well as sources and theory. This is followed by detailed discussions of vocal and instrumental performance.