<'accords brisés'>?
Is this yet another contrived modern term that a modern person is
imposing on an antique musical device?
"The term most frequently used by modern writers to describe the
musical style of the seventeenth-century French lutenists is the style
brise ("broken style"). Although the word brise was used in the
seventeenth century to distinguish a type of ornament,' the term style
brise was apparently coined in the twentieth century. After an
exhaustive search through dictionaries, lexicons, theoretical
treatises, practical sources, and contemporary accounts, I am unable to
find a single example of the term style brise used in any previous
century." - David Buch, The Musical Quarterly, Vol. 71, No. 1 (1985),
p. 52.
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