Howard Mayer Brown's 'Embellishing 16th Century Music' and the entry in
Grove under 'Ornaments' make for interesting reading. Both touch upon
Capirola's indications and set them in the wider context of 16th century
instruction books for singers and instrumentalists.
Best,
Matthew
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I guess you are right, Martin.
Anyway, we cannot grasp the range of unwritten ornaments, even the ones
who classified them can't really describe how to play it so it sounds good.
And some sources say that there was lots of inégale playing and other
devices even back then.
I guess everything
Martin,
I've always ornamented all Renaissance lute music. (No reason in the
world not to. It's what live musicians do.) Pretty much the way you do,
too. And I would have played Capirola's music with ornaments even if he
hadn't been so considerate and thorough as to supply them- of course
Thank you Martin, I have often wondered what exactly is this ornament,
and when to use it.
However I still do not quite understand the part:
"It means that you have to embellish the note with just one finger"
and
"while the second ornament (usually but not always on the first fret) is
a lower
