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With Passionate Voice - Re-Creative Singing in 16th-Century England and Italy (Hardcover)
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With Passionate Voice - Re-Creative Singing in 16th-Century England and Italy (Hardcover)
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Musicians in the 16th century had a vastly different understanding
of the structure and performance of music than today's performers.
In order to transform inexpressively notated music into passionate
declamation, Renaissance singers treated scores freely, and it was
expected that each would personalize the music through various
modifications, which included ornamentation. Their role was one of
musical re-creation rather than of simple interpretation-the score
represented a blueprint, not a master plan, upon which they as
performer built the music. As is now commonly recognized, this
flexible approach to scores changed over the centuries; the
notation on the page itself became an ostensible musical Urtext and
performers began following it much more closely, their sole purpose
being to reproduce what was thought to be the composer's
intentions. Yet in recent years, scholars and performers are once
again freeing themselves from the written page-but the tools for
doing so have long been out of reach. With Passionate Voice gives
these tools to modern singers of Renaissance music, enabling them
to learn and master the art of "re-creative singing." Providing a
much-needed historically-informed perspective, author Robert Toft
discusses the music of composers ranging from Marchetto Cara to
John Dowland in the context of late Renaissance rhetoric, modal
theory (and its antecedents in language), and performance
traditions. Focusing on period practice in England and Italy, the
two countries which produced the music of greatest interest to
today's performers, Toft reconstructs the style of sung delivery
through contemporary treatises on music, rhetoric and oratory. Toft
remains faithful to the ways these principles were explained in the
period, and thus breathes new life into this vital art form. With
Passionate Voice is sure to be essential for vocalists, teachers
and coaches of early music repertoire.
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