Download or read book Performance Practice: Music after 1600 written by Howard Mayer Brown and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1990 with total page 533 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.