Performance Practice and Ornamentation

Carroll, Paul. Baroque Woodwind Instruments: a Guide to Their history, Repertoire, and Basic Technique. Ashgate, 1999. ML931 .C37 1999.

Cyr, Mary. Performing Baroque Music. Amadeus Press, 1992.  ML457 .C9 1992.

Hefling, Stephen E. Rhythmic Alteration in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-century Music: Notes Inégales and Overdotting. Schirmer Books, 1993. ML437.H43 1993.

Neumann, Frederick. Performance Practices of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Schirmer Books ML457.N46 1993.

Neumann, Frederick.  Ornamentation and Improvisation in Mozart.  Princeton University Press, 1986.  ML410 .M9 N26 1986.

Newman, Anthony. Bach and the Baroque: A Performing Guide to Baroque Music With Special Emphasis on the Music of J. S. Bach.  Pendragon, 1985.  MT92 .B1 N48 1985.

Owen, Barbara. The Registration of Baroque Organ Music. Indiana University Press, 1997.  MT189 .O94 1997.

Tarling, Judy. Baroque String Playing for Ingenious Learners.  Corda Music, 2000.  MT259 .T26 2000.

Music Editing and Performance Guides

John Caldwell, Editing Early Music. 2d ed. Clarendon Press, 1995.  ML63 .C29 1995.

James Grier, The Critical Editing of Music: History, Method, and Practice (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).  ML 63 .G745 1996.

Performer's Guide Series.  Series ed., Anthony Burton. London: Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music.  Includes the following volumes (and many more—search by the title “performers guide”)·       

• A Performer’s Guide to Medieval Music, ed. Ross W. Duffin. Indiana University Press, 2000.  ML457 .P475 2000.
• A Performer's Guide to Renaissance Music, ed. Jeffrey Kite-Powell. Indiana University Press, 1994.
  ML457 .P48 1994.
•  A Performer's Guide to Baroque Music, ed. Stewart Carter. Schirmer Books, 1997.  ML 457 .P49 1997.

Performance Practice: Music before 1600, ed. Howard Mayer Brown, Stanley Sadie. W. W. Norton, 1990. ML 457 .P47 1990.
A handbook of key issues in the performance practice of music from the Middle Ages and Renaissance, written by some of the leading scholars in the field. Includes a bibliography of sources to 1600. Part of the series New Grove Handbooks in Musicology. 

Performance Practice: Music after 1600, ed. Howard Mayer Brown, Stanley Sadie. W. W. Norton, 1990. ML 457 .P46 1990.
A handbook of important topics in the performance practice of music from 1600-1750, written by some of the leading scholars in the field. Includes a large bibliography of sources written during the Baroque era. Part of the series New Grove Handbooks in Musicology.

Singing Early Music: The Pronunciation of European Languages in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance, ed. Timothy J. McGee.  Indiana University Press, 1996.  MT 883 .S56 1996.
Chapters cover English, Sixteenth-Century Scots, Anglo-Latin, Old French, French Latin, Occitan, Catalan, Spanish (Castilian), Spanish Latin, Galician-Portuguese, Portuguese Latin, Italian, Italian Latin, Middle High German, Late Medieval German and Early New High German, German Latin, Flemish (Dutch), and Netherlands Latin, and include diachronic sounds charts and sample texts.