Revised and expanded, A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth Century Music is a comprehensive reference guide for students and professional musicians. The book contains useful material on vocal and choral music and style; instrumentation; performance practice; ornamentation, tuning, temperament; meter and tempo; basso continuo; dance; theatrical production; and much more. The volume includes new chapters on the violin, the violoncello and violone, and the trombone-as well as updated and expanded reference materials, internet resources, and other newly available material. This highly accessible handbook will prove a welcome reference for any musician or singer interested in historically informed performance. -- Indiana University Press

..". a major contribution to cornett research and belongs in thelibrary of every cornettist." -- Historic BrassSociety

..". scrupulously detailed... The first successfulattempt to provide a comprehensive reference book on the cornett and its music.Recommended for both upper-division undergraduate libraries and collections servingmusic scholars and performers." -- Choice

..". it willlikely stand as the definitive bibliography of cornett music for many years." -- Notes

..". this is a groundbreaking study of thesubject... likely to remain the only major study of the instrument and the musiccomposed for it." -- American Reference BooksAnnual

..". every cornett player owes an immense debt ofgratitude to [the authors and their assistants] for revealing such a wealth ofperforming opportunities..." -- European Journal of EarlyMusic

The cornett is made of wood but has a brass cup mouthpieceand uses woodwind finger technique. Here the authors have compiled a bibliography ofall extant sources of instrumental and vocal music which specify thecornett.