Dear Andrea, martellement is what I had in mind, indeed. What I was trying to say was that French ornaments don't necessarily start from auxiliary notes. Although using differing signs, Gallot and Mouton agree that the martellement starts from the main note. (Harpsicordists like Francois Couperin or Antoine Lebegue also use martellements starting from the lower auxiliary note.) But that's some twenty, forty years after Gianoncelli's publication (1650). Couldn't find what one of the Gaultiers had to say about martellements. You quoted Piccinini as saying that in his days there were two kinds of tremolo (longo and secondo = trill and mordent), both starting from the main note. -- Best wishes,
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