One Hundred Years of Violoncello. A History of Technique and Performance Practice, 1740-1840, Paperback

The first book to address the full range of performance issues for the violoncello from the Baroque to the early Romantic period. Richly illustrated with over 300 music examples, plates and figures, this book provides playing instructions which can easily be applied by modern players to their own performance of period music.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Author(s): Valerie Walden
• Illustration(s): 308 Printed music items; 9 Halftones, unspecified
• Number of pages: 328
• Collection: Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs
• Publication date: 2004
• Dimensions: 244 x 190 x 17
• Cover type: Paperback / softback