Must admit I find this confusing too. According to the great encyclopedia of the cyber world wikipedia:
The tremolo was invented by late 16th century composer Claudio Monteverdi, as described by Weiss and Taruskin in the book Music in the western world: A history of documents page 146 Perhaps the definition can be better understood from that source. As a guitarist ( and a lutenist ) tremolo & vibrato are two different things. Tremolo being achieved either with a stomp box or with a tremolo arm, oft known as a 'wang bar' vibrato on the other hand is the rapid movement of the fingers on a note, either by short pulls and releases of the strings or by rapid rocking motion of the string on the fretted note. Neil -----Original Message----- From: Jerzy Zak [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 05 February 2009 10:13 To: Lute Net Subject: [LUTE] Re: Haynes Book, was French trill? Excuse me, but are we talking about some rare forgotten curiosity of someones articulation or a term on par with vibrato, considering modern termonology. Until now I thought 'tremolo' is a fast repetition of one or two notes, as in scoring (orchestration/ instrumentation) for bowed strings, but also known as a 'guitar tremolo'. I think, David shoud reply what he means. Regards, J _____ On 2009-02-05, at 09:23, Daniel Winheld wrote: >> On 2009-02-04, at 21:30, David Tayler wrote: >> >>> BTW, the tremolo is more interesting than the vibrato in early >>> recordings. People stopped using it. And it sure sounds better >>> without it. I'd trade vibrato for tremolo any day. Nobody talks >>> about that, but it is the biggest single change in performance in >>> the 20th century. > > Conchita Supervia- Spanish singer, 1895- 1936. Did some very > interesting things with her voice. Also had the ability to refrain > from doing them. > >> What is tremolo in singing or on melody instrument? >> J To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
