Ornamentation in Baroque and Post-Baroque Music With Special Emphasis on J. S. Bach

Ornaments play an enormous role in the music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and ambiguities in their notation (as well as their frequent omission in the score) have left doubt as to how composers intended them to be interpreted. Frederick Neumann, himself a violinist and conductor, questions the validity of the rigid principles applied to their performance. In this controversial work, available for the first time in paperback, he argues that strict constraints are inconsistent with the freedom enjoyed by musicians of the period.Neumann, Frederick is the author of 'Ornamentation in Baroque and Post-Baroque Music With Special Emphasis on J. S. Bach' with ISBN 9780691027074 and ISBN 0691027072.