Download or read book Treatise on Vocal Performance and Ornamentation by Johann Adam Hiller written by Johann Adam Hiller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-04-12 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hiller's Treatise on Vocal Performance and Ornamentation was published in Germany in 1780 and is an important manual on vocal technique and performance in the eighteenth century. Hiller was a masterful educator and was active not only as a teacher but as a critic, composer, conductor and music director. Thus, his observations served not only to raise the standards of singing in Germany, based on the Italian model, but to present complicated material, particularly ornamentation, in a manner that his peers, the middle class, could emulate. This present edition, translated with an introduction and extensive commentary by musicologist Suzanne J. Beicken, makes Hiller's treatise available for the first time in English. With its emphasis on practical aspects of ornamentation, declamation and style it will be valuable to instrumentalists as well as singers and is a significant contribution to the understanding of performance practice in the eighteenth-century.
Download or read book Ornamentation in the Vocal Music of George F Handel written by Patricia L. Donnelly and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Applying Sixteenth century Embellishment Principles to Performances of Renaissance Vocal Music Given by Large Ensembles Through Notation Using Ossia Measures written by Kirk C. Aamot and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sound of Medieval Song written by Timothy J. McGee and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1998-04-02 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sound of Medieval Song is a study of how sacred and secular music was actually sung during the Middle Ages. The source of the information is the actual notation in the early manuscripts as well as statements found in approximately 50 theoretical treatises written between the years 600-1500. The writings describe various singing practices and both desirable and undesirable vocal techniques, providing a fairly accurate picture of how singers approached the music of the period. Detailed descriptions of the types and uses of improvised ornament indicate that in performance the music was highly ornate, and included trill, gliss, reverberation, pulsation, pitch inflection, non-diatonic tones, and cadenza-like passages of various lengths. The treatises also provide evidence of stylistic differences in various geographical locations. McGee draws conclusions about the kind of vocal production and techniques necessary in order to reproduce the music as it was performed during the Middle Ages, aligning the practices much more closely with those of the Middle East than has ever been previously acknowledged.
Download or read book Musical Ornamentation written by Edward Dannreuther and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Musical Ornamentation, Vol. 1 This materials for this little book on Musical Ornamentation are arranged in quasi-chronological order. Thus they serve for a general survey as well as for a special study of ornaments. Care has been taken to make each detail intelligible. But there are so many details, and the subject is so full of seeming contradiction, that the explanations and modifying comments of a competent master may be required, if anything practically worth having is to be derived from some of the information given. Up to Beethoven, many important points in the execution of music were matters of tradition. Tempo, for instance; pitch, in vocal music a capella; gradations of piano and forte; the way to play accompaniments from a figured bass; "Diminutions," "Divisions," and the way to render certain embellishments in both vocal and instrumental music; all were left, more or less, to the discretion of the executants. Questions of taste and style have ever been decided by an appeal to tradition and the example of approved singers and players; a sufficient appeal no doubt, so long as it is made by one generation of artists to the practice of their immediate forefathers, but rather vague and puzzling after the lapse of a century or so. In the case of practical musicians there has always been a tendency to deviate from once accepted traditions; and even when they are theoretically followed, they are frequently found to be incomplete or perverted. Hence the importance of a historical survey and a comparison of materials. If, by dint of studying the various kinds of ornaments and embellishments at first hand, we are fortunate enough to attain some measure of success in tracing the links from one phase of expression to another, much is gained. We may thus arrive at a better notion of technique in times past, may be brought into closer sympathy with the instincts of older composers for time and tone, and may hope to reach something like a correct execution of their music. No one will care to advocate the revival of a host of obsolete curlicues and twirligigs, or the resuscitation of a habit of improvising facile variantes or running into division. Divisions and graces have had their day and have served their purpose. They are interesting, however, and we ought at least to understand them. But we shall not understand them from the usual instruction books, because the writers, both old and comparatively new, have taken more pains to show up what they deem bad practice and hold to be reprehensible, than to expound what they believe to be good and right, and to teach it by clear precept and example. The books contain an abundance of so-called "Explanations" concerning the execution of graces, and a deplorable paucity of special examples - examples in which the signs for graces are given together with the context, and the execution is written out in full. The tables of signs and explanations, which a little before and during the eighteenth century formed the usual adjuncts to printed copies of Pieces de Clavecin, Lessons for the Harpsichord, &c., are difficult to deal with owing to their discrepancy and their occasional and apparently arbitrary substitution of one sign for another. If one attempts to apply the explanation of an ornament given by this or that composer to contemporary music or even to music of his own, a number of puzzling questions as to practice arise, towards which the tables, just because they are tables - that is to say, abstracts - fail to furnish a sufficient answer. Some such questions are: Is the ornament diatonic, or does it require an accidental? Does it fall on the beat of the main note, as usual, or can it be meant to precede the main note? Is it quick or slow? If slow, in what relation does it stand to the main note - what proportion of the main note does it occupy? Which has the stress - the ornament or the main note?
Download or read book Ornamentation in Renaissance Vocal Music written by Murray Charles Walker and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Embellished Editions of Selected Renaissance Vocal ensemble Music written by Dennis Robert Woodhall and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Survey of Ornamentation in Vocal Music from the Baroque Period to the 20th Century written by Kendra A. Sampson and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 1336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging Division and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 1326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Observations on Vocal Music written by William Kitchiner and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Ornamentation in Renaissance Vocal Music written by Murray Charles Walker and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The development of 17th century French vocal ornamentation and its influence upon late baroque ornamentation practice written by Austin B. Caswell and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Subject Headings Used in the Dictionary Catalogs of the Library of Congress from 1897 Through December 1955 written by Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging Division and published by Washington : Library of Congress, Processing Department, Subject Cataloging Division. This book was released on 1957 with total page 1366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
