Dear all~
As the summer vocations ends~ all my students are going back to school today~ I still taking a rest for almost ten day or more~ I have enough time to continuare my last topic~ another topic of the national styles~ continuare the musica of the Italian and the French~ sharing is my most greatest pleasure~
Altering rhythms~
The basic difference between the performance of French and Italian music was that French musicians altered notated rhythms in performance to a greater extent than Italian musicians~
Francois Couperin wrote in L'art de toucher le clavecin in 1716~
We write music differently from the way we play~ which causes foreigners to play our music less well we play theirs~ By contrast the Italians write their music in the true note values in which they intended them to be performed~ For example~ we dot groups of quavers moving by step despite the fact that we write them equal~ Our custom has enslaved us~ and we continuare with it~
This effect~ commonly called notes inegales~ unequal notes~was not confined to France or French~style music around 1700~ and was described by writers such as Loys Bourgeois 1550~
Tomas de Santa Maria 1565~
Giovanni Battista Bovicelli 1594~
Giulio Romolo Caccini 1602~
& Frescobaldi 1615~
The consensus was that groups of apparently equal fast notes in written~out passaggi or division could be performed unevenly, either long~ short or short -long~ It was also applied to the 17 century dance music ~ as is suggested by the variants between different versions of the same piece~ I will have an example for you all ~my friends~
Not long from now~
Thank you for your reading~
Grazie per aver letto~
Grazie davvero per il vostro sostegno~
Cari saluti~
Antonio Vivaldi~
