Editor: Burton, Anthony

Glover, Jane / Wyn Jones, David / Eisen, Cliff / Druce, Duncan / Ward, David / Solomon, Ashley / ...

• the latest thinking on stylish performance presented in a clear, helpful and practical way

• chapters from leading experts on historical background, notation and interpretation, and sources and editions

• specialist advice for keyboard, string and wind players, and singers

• illustrated with many music examples, facsimiles and pictures

• Preface (Classical period) [Anthony Burton]
  
• Introduction [Christopher Hogwood / Jane Glover / Roger Norrington / William Baines / Richard Crozier / Trevor Herbert / Paul Harris / Clara Taylor]
  
• Historical Background [David Wyn Jones / George Pratt]
  
• Notation and Interpretation [Cliff Eisen]
  
• Keyboard [David Ward]
  
• Strings [Duncan Druce]
  
• Wind Instruments [Ashley Solomon]
  
• Singing [Richard Wigmore]
  
• Sources and Editions [Barry Cooper]