A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music, Second EditionRevised and expanded, A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth Century Music is a comprehensive reference guide for students and professional musicians. The book contains useful material on vocal and choral music and style; instrumentation; performance practice; ornamentation, tuning, temperament; meter and tempo; basso continuo; dance; theatrical production; and much more. The volume includes new chapters on the violin, the violoncello and violone, and the trombone—as well as updated and expanded reference materials, internet resources, and other newly available material. This highly accessible handbook will prove a welcome reference for any musician or singer interested in historically informed performance. |
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... Zacconi: Prattica di musica (1592) Example 16.15. Lodovico Zacconi: Prattica di musica (1592) Example 16.16. Francesco Rognoni: Selva de varii passaggi (1620) Example 16.17. Lodovico Zacconi: Prattica di musica (1592) Example 16.18 ...
... Zacconi described gorgia singers as follows: These persons, who have such quickness and ability to deliver a ... Zacconi's remark that “the tremolo, that is, the trembling voice, is the true gate to enter the passages [passaggi] and to ...
... Zacconi, however, discusses three: voce di testa, voce di petto, and a mixture of the two, called voce obtuse. He generally prefers the voce di petto to the voce di testa.29 The need to develop a smooth passage between registers is not ...
... Zacconi's discussion of the importance of the tremolo for learning the gorgia technique and singing passaggi (see above), it is likely that Praetorius (who learned much from Italian theorists) was referring not to continuous pitch ...
... Zacconi, Prattica di musica: 58: “Questi tali che hanno tanta prontezza, @ possanza di pronuntiar a tempo tanta ... Zacconi, Prattica: 60: “che il tremolo, cioè la voce tremante è la vera porta d'intrar dentro a passaggi, ('9' di ...
Contents
WIND STRING AND PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS | 69 |
PERFORMANCE PRACTICE AND PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS | 291 |
THE SEVENTEENTHCENTURY STAGE | 395 |
Appendix A List of Names and Dates | 447 |
Contents | 457 |
Contents | 461 |
Bibliography | 463 |
List of Contributors | 507 |
Index | 511 |