Actually Gianconcelli uses both the broken chord and division types. Using the
examples in Chilesotti, the Spezzate in the [partitas] on pages 13 and 17 of
the tablaturebook are the division type,and on pages 17 (2nd one) and 40 the
brise type. Another [partita] has a rotta as after dance.
I tend to think of divisions as being linear variation with many notes added to
the melody to ornament it. The melody is _divided_ into many equal short notes,
as you nicely put it. In divisions, if there are broken chords, they follow
the same pattern, 1-2-3/1-2-3.
Brise tends to be broken chords, but broken in an unexpected, unpatterned way.
Say three note chords, the notes numbered from top (melody), 1-2-3 sound
together in the dance proper, but in brise might be
1-3-2 / 3-1-2 / 2-3-1.
If that were in 3/4 meter, the melody would be
dotted whole-note / quarter-rest_half-note /
half-rest_quarter-note.
If "1" represents the melody note, it would be "broken" rhythmically in the way
you describe. Your "off-centered" or "off-beat." if you consider the 3/4 to go
in one fo this example. It is how the chords are broken up that causes the
melody to be off the beat most of the time.
I think we're both saying the same thing using a different vocabulary.
ajn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mathias R=F6sel"
Cc: Lute Net
Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 2:20 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: tastegiata
> "Spezzata" means broken, and refers to breaking
> up of the block chords in the previous dance.
isn't it melody, rather, than chords that is spezzata, or brise (the
latter being is a 20th century term that was not in use during 17th and
18th centuries)?
> Reprises usually use divuisions for variation.
one might ask, then, what's the diffeence between divisions and
spezzature. IMHO, Gianoncelli's spezzate are in line with later
Gaultiers' general style of playing. The characteristic feature being
that the melody is broken, or shattered, and played, so to say,
off-centred or off-beat all the time (but no division into shorter
notes, which is the characteristic feature of doubles).
In contrast to that, divisions, as far as I've seen, are mostly on the
beat, the characteristic feature being that the melody is _divided_ in
many equal short notes.
Cheers,
Mathias
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