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Ornamentation : A Question & Answer Manual [Paperback]

Do not buy this book, as I did, if you are looking for a thoughtful scholarly discussion of baroque ornamentation. That, it is not. It also has little, if anything, to say about ornamentation for non-keyboard instruments.

For what it is, however, it's not a bad book. If you are an intermediate keyboard player (or a keyboard teacher shopping for an intermediate keyboard player), I can recommend this with slight reservation. While it doesn't offer an interested student much insight into the Baroque psychology that generated this style of ornamentation, it does provide a reliable (if very basic and somewhat superficial) introduction to specific ornamentation in baroque and classical keyboard music, so it would be good for a piano or harpsichord student who is just being introduced to the Bach two-part inventions or simple preludes.

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This guide to understanding ornamentation in each era of music includes information on how to understand and remain faithful to the composer's intention, how many and which notes to use in each ornament, how to integrate ornaments smoothly into a performance and simple strategies and systems for realizing and practicing ornaments. A synthesis of years of scholarly research resulting in a logical, easy to follow and accurate volume.

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