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Adagio Avison Bach's baroque bass bass-line bassoon C. P. E. Bach choir chords church clavichord composer's composers concerto consort contemporary continuo continuo instruments continuo-playing contratenor Corelli cornetts Couperin crotchet crumhorns dances dotted double-bass early music editor eighteenth eighteenth-century English ensemble extemporization figured bass flute fortepiano French style fugue German Handel harmony harpsichord Haydn improvised instance interpretation Italian style keyboard instrument keyboard music kind lute madrigal manuscripts medieval medieval music modern edition mordent motet Mozart music written musician mute cornett notation note-values notes oboe old music orchestra organ original ornaments part-books performance piano piece plainsong played player polyphonic present-day printed Purcell Purcell's quavers Renaissance rhythms roulades sarabande scholar seventeenth century shawm singers singing sixteenth century slow slur solo sonatas song sound strings sung symbols taste technique tempo tenor theorbo tone tone-colours treble trill trombones trumpets tune vibrato viol viola violin vocal voices writing