With passionate voice
Subtitle: re-creative singing in 16th-century England and Italy
By: Robert Toft
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9780199382026; 9780199382033; 9780199382040
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Vocal music; Performance practice (Music); Interpretation (Phrasing, dynamics, etc.); History and criticism; Singing; History
Notes: "Glossary": pages 307-315.

"About the companion website": page ix.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-323) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction ; An age of rhetorical persuasion; title: Part 1. Preparing the text. Words appropriately fitted to the notes; title: Part 2. Elocutio : fine words and music. Every trope, every figure; title: Part 3. Pronunciatio : singing eloquently and acting aptly. The art of vocal delivery ; A garden of embellishment ; Action; title: Part 4. Passionate ayres pronounced. The prosopopoeia in England ; Affetto cantando and consort singing in Italy; title: Appendix. Understanding learned compositions ; The addition of sharps and flats..