In The Schoole of Musicke (London, 1603), Thomas Robinson writes about ornamentation as follows:
" Now you shall have a generall rule to grace it, as with pashionate play, and relishing it: and note that the longer the time is of a single stroke, that the more neede it hath of a relish, for a relish will help, both to grace it, and also it helps to continue the sound of the note his full time: but in a quicke time a little touch or jerke will serue, and that onely with the most strongest finger. Passionate play is to runne some part of the squares in a Treble (that is foure and foure) first loud, then soft, and so in a decorum, now louder, now softer, (not in extremitie of either) but as companie of other instruments, or farnesse off giveth occasion...." Please could someone explain the meaning of "Passionate play is to runne some part of the squares in a Treble (that is foure and foure)"? Stewart McCoy. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
