MUSIC 308A Lecture 16: Instrumental Music
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If it wasn"t notated: played it based on madrigals, chansons, a. k. a. popular music: also improvised, played pre-existing pieces and adopting them. Michael praetorius, syntagma musicum (1618: german, a systematic treatise of music : cataloged the different types of instruments, strings, wind, grass instruments. Improvisatory pieces: prelude: leads to something else, can be song, dance, musician would improvise before launching into set piece, fantasia: fantasy, making stuff up , recercare: to search , searching your way through musical material. Intonazione: tuning piece: first thing string players do, toccata: pre-standard in baroque; toccate is to touch in italian, feeling out the instrument. Transcriptions of vocal music: luis de narv ez, cancion mille regres (1538, vihuela: spanish style lute, flat bottom, straight neck, 2 strings for each of the 5, originally by josquin. Variation forms: william byrd, pavana lachrymae (ca. 1600: tears based on john dowland"s flow, my tears. Instrument: virginal queen elizabeth virgin queen : plucked keyboard instrument popular in elizabethan england.
