ISBN: 9780197514085
Editorial: Oxford University Press, USA
Autor: Baragwanath, Associate Professor of Music Nicholas
Año de edición: 2020
N° Paginas: 999
Tipo de pasta: Pasta dura
Descripción: How did castrati manage to amaze their eighteenth-century audiences by singing the same aria several times in completely different ways? And how could composers of the time write operas in a matter of days? The secret lies in the solfeggio tradition, a music education method that wasfundamental to the training of European musicians between 1680 and 1830 -- a time during which professional musicians belonged to the working class. As disadvantaged children in orphanages learned the musical craft through solfeggio lessons, many were lifted from poverty, and the most successful werepropelled to extraordinary heights of fame and fortune. In this first book on the solfeggio tradition, author Nicholas Baragwanath draws on over a thousand manuscript sources to reconstruct how professionals became skilled performers and composers who could invent and modify melodies at will. By introducing some of the simplest exercises in scales, leaps, and cadences that apprentices would have encountered, this book allows readers to retrace the steps of solfeggio training and learn to generate melody by 'speaking' it like an eighteenth-century musician. As it takes readers on a fascinating journey through the fundamentals of music educationin the eighteenth century, this book uncovers a forgotten art of melody that revolutionizes our understanding of the history of music pedagogy. Críticas Nicholas Baragwanath's research into the craft of solfeggio training gives the reader a new and original insight into historical music pedagogy: esoteric teaching (and learning) codes are eventually cracked and explained in a lively prose. -- Rosa Cafiero, Università Cattolica del Sacro CuoreMilanoNicholas Baragwanath's The Solfeggio Tradition opens up numerous new perspectives! Following up on recent research in partimento and practical counterpoint, Baragwanath fills the missing gaps in our understanding of singing and melody in music education at the old Italian conservatories. -- Petervan Tour, author of Counterpoint and Partimento (Uppsala, 2015) Biografía del autor Nicholas Baragwanath is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Nottingham. His award-winning research focuses on music history and theory, particularly on how musicians in the past learned skills in improvisation and composition. He regularly writes and presents for BBC Radio 3.
- Idioma: Inglés
- Autor: Baragwanath, Associate Professor of Music Nicholas
- Editorial: Oxford University Press, USA
- N° Paginas: 999
- Tipo de pasta: Pasta dura
- Envío: Desde EE.UU.
