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Music of an Earlier Time: in respect of before and after
Andrew Lawrence-King offers an online practical workshop that explores how Time might have felt to 17th-century musicians, hosted by Amherst Early Music Festival on Saturday June 5th, 2021: further...
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Cantar con gratia – a forgotten ornament?
How to ‘add beauty’ Around the year 1600, singers were expected to deliver more than just the bare notes written by the composer. There was a well-established practice of dividing up long notes into...
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Making Time for beautiful singing: a lost practice
From renaissance to early Baroque Published just before the year 1600, Luduvico Zacconi’s monumental treatise on Practical Music – Prattica di Musica (1592/1596) here – straddles the divide between...
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Time for ‘Messiah’
It’s one of the best-loved and most well-known pieces in the Early Music canon, but what would you focus on, if you were asked to direct it, with the first rehearsal starting in a few hours time? The...
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Passaggi: Della Casa & Bovicelli on the True Way to make Divisions
When we study Ornamentation c1600, it is an over-simplification to view Divisions (also known as Diminutions, passaggi – replacing a long note, or a phrase in long notes with many short or very short...
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Altri canti senza battuta: Madrigals of Love, War & Tactus
Altri canti d’Amor, tenero Arciero… di Marte io canto.Others sing of Love, the tender Archer… I sing of Mars! Altri canti di Marte e di sua schiera… io canto amor.Others sing of Mars and of his army…...
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Measuring musical time in late-17th-century Italy
This posts continues my study of a very particular repertoire featuring female composers, works by Milanese nuns in the mid/late 17th century. This investigation is associated with the performance...
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The Wrong Trousers: can new training re-purpose Early Music skills for...
There are significant differences in music-making, not only between mainstream and Early Music approaches, but also between today’s Early Music and what musicians of former centuries actually did back...
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Three ways to make Early Music more expressive (And is there a ‘true way’?)
This article is a response to a thought-provoking post by Dr Noa Kageyama Three ways to teach students how to play more expressively (and is there a “best” way?) It also returns to some fundamental...
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Enargeia – Visions in Performance
The ‘enargetic’ approach to the arts may be described as rhetoric of presence and display, or aesthetics of evidence and imagination. Visual imagination plays a major role in the concepts of effect in...
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