MUS 10A Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Giovanni Artusi, Scholasticism
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Singing exudes shortens/lengthens syllables to complicate understanding of lyrics. Sick of seeing musicians being told to compose bad songs. Embellishments are not useless but for ears and affect. Baroque era had lots of compositional freedom. Claims that monteverdi is very high-headed and has no foundation to his work. Second practice: perfection of setting, words > harmony. Music once became again an art of rhetoric . Three affections of the mind: anger, equanimity, humility. Three tones of voice corresponding: agitated, soft, moderate. Artusi has only found agitated and soft, and those correspond to note value. Monteverdi attacked giovanni maria artusi anonymously and then revelaed in 1603. Questioned change, authority and theory vs. practice. Theorists had hierarchy and also applied to ancient greek principles in other academic fields. Practice associated themselves with poetry and rhetoric, music was expressive and considered art. Science (theory) has proven to be tried and true, no one should question it.
