Sanseverino's six (dance-) songs are accompaniments to well-known
melodies.
Actually, I checked them this morning. Leading Musicologists nowadays
treat such repertoire as dance-songs.
Which Leading Musicologists? Even songs by Rontani connected with the
Florentine school? How could you dance
to Caldi sospiri? Which songs are you referring to? I have even found a
version of Caccini's Amaryllis with alfabeto. Is that a dance song?
I am sure that it was and if you read what Marini has said and study how
he
has added the alfabeto to the songs you can see that he had in mind
something quite different from what you seem to think
There's the Chinese whispering again.
Well this is what you said ...
The songs of Marini, Berti and so many others were new compositions,
provided with the harmony of a basso continuo. The alfabeto
could well have been inscribed by the composer himself, as we assume of
Biagio Marini, for example.
which seems imply that because the alfabeto was included by the composers
themselves it was intended to be interpreted differently.
[could we please have
this discussion in Dutch ?:~) ]
Double Dutch perhaps. What you are saying sounds like pedantry to me.
You asked me what I thought of Alexander Dean's views, to which I answered
quite seriously.
I think you could have explained it using simpler, more direct language
rather than using wordy acaemicspeak..
And songs from the 1630s?
Should we really suppose that Foscarini's instructions don't apply for
anything from before 1640?
Probably. There is a very marked change in style in the solo pieces in
book five from the earlier books. The whole of Foscarini's book reflects
quite rapid changes taking place between 1629 and 1640. A microcosm of what
was happening then.
Monica
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