Ornaments play an enormous role in the music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and ambiguities in their notation (as well as their frequent omission in the score) have left doubt as to how composers intended them to be interpreted. Frederick Neumann, himself a violinist and conductor, questions the validity of the rigid principles applie
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"This work is not only the definitive book on the subject to date. It will also make many scholars and musicians revise their pet ideas."--Harold C. Schonberg, New York Times
