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Jacobs, Charles.

“Ornamentation in Spanish Renaissance vocal music”. Performance Practice Review 4, no. 2, (Fall 1991): 116-185.

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Article: journal 1991 jacobs1991
Summary

Presents a survey of vocal ornamentation as descibed in Luis de Milan's El maestro (1535), Domenico Pietro Cerone's El melopeo y maestro (1613), and intervening 16th-c. Spanish publications. Discusses musical terms such as redoble, quiebro, glosa, trinar, and hacer garganta. Also includes a summary of the material provided in the eight book of El melopeo, with 54 pages of musical examples from Cerone's suggested diminutions. (Hernandez, Alberto H.) RILM NO.: 91-08872-ap


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Instrument VIHUELA

Century 16CENT

Region SPAIN

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Research field GENERAL, MUSIC, PERFORMANCE PRACTICE