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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... voice has not changed over the centuries, many elements of seventeenth-century vocal performance practice differed considerably from modern singing. There was no single method of singing seventeenth-century music; indeed, there were ...
... } Fuhrrnann [1 1'06; W15) FHAN CE 5pm“ Corona {1613) '1 it Mersenne (1636] Bacflly [1655) language.2 As Andrea von Ramm has observed, singing voice, depending on the language sung.3 Kanst Oder Manier: 4 VocAL/CI—IORAL ISSUES.
... voices, and falsettists. The term gorgia (= throat) identified the locus of this technique, involving an intricate ... voice.6 A basic threshold of speed is required in order for throat articulation to work easily. The glottal action ...
... voice, is the true gate to enter the passages [passaggi] and to become proficient in the gorgia.”14 Equating Zacconi's tremolo with pitch-fluctuation vibrato, as some scholars have done, contradicts the nature of throat ...
... voice can come no noble manner of singing, which only proceeds from a natural voice.”22 Bellerofonte Castaldi, in his preface to Primo rnazzetto difiori (1623), wrote: And because they treat either love or the scorn which a lover has ...
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 |