 | Baroque Music Today: Music As Speech : Ways to a New Understanding of Music by Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Buy used from: $99.95 Fascinating ideas from a musician who really thinks. The German original came out over twenty years ago, but this is still vital.
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 | The Musical Dialogue - Thoughts on Monteverdi, Bach and Mozart (Paperback) by Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Buy new: $11.21 / Used from: $8.06 More insights.
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 | The History of Violin Playing from Its Origins to 1761: and Its Relationship to the Violin and Violin Music (Clarendon Paperbacks) by David D. Boyden
Buy new: $90.27 / Used from: $79.82 The classic study of early violin playing.
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 | Georg Muffat on Performance Practice: The Texts from Florilegium Primum, Florilegium Secundum, and Auserlesene Instrumentalmusik--A New Translation with ... (Publications of the Early Music Institute) by Georg Muffat
Buy new: $21.95 / Used from: $29.85 Finally a good English translation is available of texts which are one of our most valuable sources for bowing practices in the baroque era.
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 | On Playing the Flute by Johann Joachim Quantz
Buy new: $22.89 / Used from: $18.99 This is the first (and sometimes only) historical source many read. It has suffered from overuse, but Quantz is very precise, so the right music it's unbeatable.
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 | Classical and Romantic Performing Practice 1750-1900 by Clive Brown
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 | Text and Act: Essays on Music and Performance by Richard Taruskin
Buy new: $39.99 / Used from: $22.37 Provocative essays from a great musicologist.
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 | Authenticity and Early Music: A Symposium
Buy new: $85.00 / Used from: $4.00 A wonderful collection.
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 | One Hundred Years of Violoncello: A History of Technique and Performance Practice, 1740-1840 (Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs) by Valerie Walden
Buy new: $60.42 / Used from: $70.86 A good starting point for cellists.
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 | Bach's Continuo Group: Players and Practices in His Vocal Works (Studies in the History of Music) by Laurence Dreyfus
Buy used from: $59.99 |
 | Mozart's Symphonies: Context, Performance Practice, Reception (Clarendon Paperbacks) by Neal Zaslaw
Buy new: $160.00 / Used from: $34.35 |
 | Four and Twenty Fiddlers: The Violin at the English Court, 1540-1690 (Oxford Monographs on Music) by Peter Holman
Buy new: $100.00 / Used from: $57.78 |
 | Inside Early Music: Conversations with Performers by Bernard D. Sherman
Buy new: $40.00 / Used from: $9.87 |
 | The Beethoven Quartet Companion
Buy new: $22.45 / Used from: $12.00 |
| Carl Czerny on the Proper Performance of All Beethoven's Works for the Piano
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| The Early History of the Viol (Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs) by Ian Woodfield
Buy used from: $224.56 |
 | A Treatise on the Fundamental Principles of Violin Playing (Oxford Early Music Series) by Leopold Mozart
Buy new: $95.00 / Used from: $64.98 The authority for violinists for nearly a century.
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 | Ornamentation in Baroque and Post-Baroque Music, with Special Emphasis on J.S. Bach by Frederick Neumann
Buy new: $63.45 / Used from: $50.00 |
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