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18th-19th c. Performance Practice: primary sources

A guide oriented toward but not exclusively for the use of Dr. Francesca Brittan's MUHI 342/442 course

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Introduction

This is a guide to finding and working with primary source materials in classical and romantic period performance practice. It deals with methods and treatises for various instruments, early recordings, music periodicals of the time, and writings of composers and performers.

Updated 6-7-21.