Contents of the book

PART I - INTRODUCTION - 24 pages

• The Rediscovery of Baroque Ornamentation
• The different types of Ornamentation and Embellishments
• The Basics on Essential Ornaments: intervals, interaction, speed, authenticity

PART II - THE ORNAMENTS AND THEIR INTERPRETATION - 130 pages

• The Mordent: signs, realisation, length, weak-beat, auxiliary, termination
• The Trill:       signs, realisation, length, accent, main-note, termination, compound
• The Turn:      signs, realisation, speed, turn between notes
• The One-Note Ornaments:
                      Appoggiatura: notation, direction, realisation, articulation, duration
                      Slide, Coulé de Tierce, Aspiration and Accent, Recitative Appoggiatura
  
• The Arpeggio: signs, realisation, double, staggering, suspension, coulés
• Synchronisation: shakes and fast notes, trill terminations, parallel trills and mordents
• More on Ornaments: Italy, Temperaments, Notes inégales, Lombard rhythm, recordings

PART III - THE ORNAMENTS ON DIFFERENT INSTRUMENTS - 16 pages

• Fingering the ornaments on the keyboard: techniques and examples
• Playing the ornaments on non-keyboard instruments: Bowed and plucked strings,
                      Baroque Woodwinds, Baroque Brass Winds, Human Voice, Vibrato

PART IV - THE EMBELLISHMENTS - 55 pages

• Interpretation of written Free Embellishments
• Extemporising Ornaments and Embellishments
• Ornamented Repeats and Doubles

PART V - COMPLEMENTARY TOPICS - 28 pages

• Sources vs Musicology: a conundrum
• Occasional failures of modern scholarship
• The no-repeated-note fallacy
• The pre-beat delusion

LITERATURE CITED - 16 pages