The Interpretation of the Music of the 17th and 18th Centuries / Arnold Dolmetsch / 528 pages

Arnold Dolmetsch was the first to apply scholarly attention to the question of authentic historical performance practice. This groundbreaking study, first published in 1915, is one of the landmark texts in musicology and remains essential reading for performers, students, and music lovers. Unabridged republication of The Interpretation of the Music of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Novello & Co., London, 1946.