The solfeggio tradition : a forgotten art of melody in the long eighteenth century / Nicholas Baragwanath.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baragwanath, Nicholas, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Solmization--History--18th century.

Solmization.

Sight-singing--History--18th century.

Sight-singing.

Music--Instruction and study--History--18th century.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (432 pages) : illustrations (black and white).

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2020]

Summary:

In this text on the solfeggio tradition, one of the pillars of eighteenth-century music education, author Nicholas Baragwanath illuminates how performers and composers developed their exceptional skills in improvising and inventing melodies.

Contents:

Introduction: discovering solfeggio

I. Context: apprenticeship, plainchant, and the rudiments

Sepperl's story: a case study in music and social mobility

The church music industry

Eighteenth-century plainchant-for beginners

Canto fermo and canto figurato

II. Theory and practice: lessons in the art of melody

Speaking solfeggio

Solmization solutions

Appendix: ambiguities, complexities, and supplementary guidelines

Singing solfeggio

Learning la-sol-fa-mi, with some hints on musical grammar

Solano and Sabbatini on modulation

III. The solfeggio repertory: types, styles, and genres

Defining solfeggio

Unaccompanied solfeggio

Accompanied solfeggio

Solfeggio and partimento

Epilogue: alternative systems and the end of the great tradition.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-751410-3

0-19-751411-1

0-19-751409-X