All the things on this list are uniquely French; they give the music the character. For French music, the truffle is more important than the duck. A ground bass can have the exact same harmony in France as an Italian one, but the sauce is different. dt
At 01:08 PM 6/19/2008, you wrote: >This is all truffle sauce, but it tells you nothing about the wild >boar underneath. >RT > > >----- Original Message ----- From: "David Tayler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "lute-cs.dartmouth.edu" <[email protected]> >Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 3:59 PM >Subject: [LUTE] Re: French Style > > >>That's a terrific question for which there is no easy answer. >>Here's a few basic starting points: >>1. It is different at different times--don't conflate the different genres >>2. Inegal is the most misused and most misunderstood. Read the >>original sources, don't rely on secondary sources. >>At a minimum,Distinguish between coule & pointe, and distinguish >>rhythmic inegal from articulation inegal--this is where it always goes wrong. >>3. Read up on the "gout" >>4. Learn all the agreements. Most people know 2 or 3, some know half >>a dozen, few know them all. >>You need to know at least a dozen, to put an arbitrary number on it. >>5. Learn the three parts of the trill--the starting note, the >>repetition, and the escape. Most people don't play their trills >>right, or play them "evenly". >>6. Use the 2/3rds rule for grace notes and the first note of the >>trill as a starting point--the grace note is the long note, not the >>other way around >>7. Distinguish between the weight of medial and final cadential >>trills and ornaments, the lighter ones are often at the end, not the >>other way around. >>8. At a minimum, read Monteclair on the agreements, especially for >>the port de voix, the ornament which is most often performed >>backwards (enough here for a separate post) >>9. Also read the following which describes the actual ornaments used >>in Rameau's time: >> >>Author: MCGEGAN, Nicholas; SPAGNOLI, Gina >>Singing style at the Opera in the Rameau period. (Paris: >>Champion; Geneve: Slatkine, 1986) Music. In French. See RILM >>1987-00887-bs. Collection: Jean-Philippe Rameau >> >>10. You are right about the language, lots to investigate there. >>11. Listen to a few recordings of unmeasured preludes for >>harpsichord, then arrange them for lute. A new take on stile brise. >> >>dt >> >> >>At 12:35 PM 6/19/2008, you wrote: >>>I'm wondering: what is it that makes up the "French style" of >>>Baroque music? I don't mean particularly stile brise, notes inegall >>>etc. Those are obvious, and to me insufficient explanations to >>>convey the French Baroque. It seems to me there's more to it than >>>that. Are there, for example, considerations in the French style >>>that have to do with the cadences and general kinds of rhythms of the >>>French language itself? What things does one need to understand / >>>appreciate in order to make effectively rhetorical music in the >>>French style? >>> >>>Anybody got any ideas on this? >>> >>>Best, >>> >>>David Rastall >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>-- >>> >>>To get on or off this list see list information at >>>http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >> >> > > > > >__________________________________________________ >D O T E A S Y - "Join the web hosting revolution!" > http://www.doteasy.com >
