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Learning materials for diminutions
Ornaments in 17th Century
Pia Praetorius

Deutsch
GRATIE. Verzierungspraxis im 17. Jahrhundert

English
GRACES. Ornamentation Practice in the Seventeenth Century

 

Learning materials for diminutions
EINFÜHRUNG/ INTRODUCTION - Giovanni Battista Bovicelli
Pia Praetorius

Deutsch
Pia Praetorius: Bovicellis Stilistik

English
Pia Praetorius: The Bovicelli-Style

 

Tutorial Videos
Diminuieren und verzieren/ Diminishing and embellishing
Josué Meléndez • Catherine Motuz

 

Josué Meléndez/ Catherine Motuz: About graces

 

Josué Meléndez: Cut&Paste Ornaments

 

Learning materials for diminutions
Audiosample/ Hörbeispiele

Everything you can hear here is only an example of how things could sound and meant to be an inspiration. Of course, there is more than one way to skin a cat…

GRACES / VERZIERUNGEN

Josué Meléndez:  Trillo (possible for example for Brunelli O quam suavis bar 3)

Josué Meléndez: Trillo (possible for example for Brunelli O quam suavis bar 5)

Josué Meléndez: Trillo (possible for example for Sances)

Charles Daniels: Example 1 Esclamazione, Coloratura or gorgia, trillo in Kapsberger Parce mihi

Charles Daniels: Example 2 Esclamazione & trillo in Kapsberger Parce mihi

Charles Daniels: Example 3 Trillo. Intonazione, Coloratura or Gorgia, trillo in Kapsberger Parce mihi

Charles Daniels: Example 3a Coloratura or Gorgia& trillo (again) in Kapsberger Parce mihi

 

RECORDINGS WITH DIMINUTIONS

Jean Tubéry & La Fenice: G.P. da Palestrina, G. B. Bovicelli – Io son ferito
With grateful thanks to Jean Tubéry for providing the recording.

Jean Tubéry, Mena & La Fenice: Giovanelli/G. B. Bovicelli: Magnificat

 

Learning materials for diminutions
Early Music Sources Website
Elam Rotem, Jörg-Andreas Bötticher

You can find here a lot of interesting material about diminution like Sources Database and videos about diminution practice:

 

Treatises
Regole di musica madrigali e motetti Passeggiati
Giovanni Battista Bovicelli

Year: 1594
Source: Regole, passaggi di musica
Edition: Gawain Glenton, Septenary Editions  | Extract Septenary Editions
Translation: Olivier Webber, Extract Septenary Editions 

 

Treatises
Musica Getutscht
Sebastian Virdung

Year: 1511
Source: Imslp
Edition:
Translation:

 

Treatises
La Fontegara
Sylvestro Ganassi

Year: 1535
Source: Imslp
Edition:
Translation:

 

Treatises
Le droict chemin de musique
Loys Bourgeois

Year: 1550
Source: Imslp
Edition:
Translation:

 

Treatises
Trattado de glosas sobre clausulas y otros generos de puntos en la musica de violones
Diego Ortiz

Year: 1553
Source: Imslp
Edition:
Translation:

 

Treatises
Delle lettere del Sr. Gio. Camillo Maffei da Solofra
Giovanni Camillo Maffei

Year: 1562
Source: Imslp
Edition:
Translation: Sion M.Honea

 

Treatises
Arte de tañer Fantasia
Tomas de Santa Maria

Year: 1565
Source: Imslp | bne | BNF
Edition:
Translation:

 

Treatises
Il vero modo modo di diminuir
Girolamo dalla Casa

Year: 1584
Source: Imslp
Edition:
Translation:

 

Treatises
Ricercate passaggi et cadentie
Giovanni Bassano

Year: 1585
Source: Imslp
Edition: Richard Erig
Translation dt.: Richard Erig

 

Treatises
Motetti, madrigali, et canzoni francese
Giovanni Bassano

Year: 1591
Source: Motetti, madrigali, et canzoni francese… Diminuiti per sonar con ogni sorte di stromenti, & anco per cantar con la semplice voce. lost
Edition: Copy by Chrysander 1890
Translation:

 

Treatises
Prattica di musica
Ludovico Zacconi

Year: 1592
Source: Imslp | UNT
Edition:
Translation: Sion M. Honea: Chapter 66: What Style Pertains in the making of Gorgia and on the Use of Modern Passaggi

 

Treatises
Passaggi per potersi essercitare nel diminuire
Richardo Rogniono

Year: 1592
Source: Imslp
Edition:
Translation en: Sion M. Honea

 

Treatises
Breve et facile maniera
Giovanni Luca Conforti

Year: 1593
Source: Breve et facile maniera … per poter da se senza maestri scrivere ogni opera et aria passeggiata che voranno et come si notano
Edition:
Translation:

 

Treatises
Il Transilvano
Diruta, Girolamo

Year: 1593
Source: Imslp
Edition:
Translation:

 

Treatises
A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practical Musicke
Thomas Morley

Year: 1597
Source: Imslp
Edition:
Translation:

 

Treatises
Rappresentatione di Anima e di Corpo
Emilio De' Cavalieri

Year: 1600
Source: Imslp
Edition:
Translation:

 

Treatises
Madrigali per cantare e sonare
Luzzasco Luzzaschi

Year: 1601
Source: Imslp
Edition:
Translation:

 

Treatises
Le nuove musiche
Giulio Caccini

Year: 1602
Source: Imslp
Edition:
Translation: Sion M. Honea

 

Treatises
Del Sonare sopra'l basso con tutti li stromenti
Agostino Agazzari

Year: 1607
Source: Imslp
Edition:
Translation:

 

Treatises
Libro de passaggi
Giovanni Battista Spadi

Year: 1609
Source: Imslp
Edition:
Translation:

 

Treatises
Libro primo di arie passeggiate
Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger

Year: 1612
Source: Imslp
Edition:
Translation:

 

Treatises
Libro primo di mottetti passeggiate
Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger

Year: 1612
Source: Imslp
Edition:
Translation:

 

Treatises
Salmi passaggiati per tutte le voci nella maniera che si cantano in Roma, libro primo
Francesco Severi

Year: 1615
Source: Imslp
Edition:
Translation:

 

Treatises
Syntagma Musicum
Michael Praetorius

Year: 1619
Source: Imslp
Edition:
Translation:

 

Treatises
Selva de varii passaggi
Francesco Rognoni

Year: 1620
Source: Imslp
Edition:
Translation en: Sion M. Honea

 

Treatises
Facultad orgánica
Francisco Correa de Arauxo

Year: 1626
Source: Imslp
Edition:
Translation:

 

Treatises
Synopsis musica
Johann Crüger

Year: 1630
Source: Imslp
Edition:
Translation:

 

Treatises
Musica figuralis
Daniel Friderici

Year: 1638
Source: DTA
Edition:
Translation:

 

Treatises
Arte prattica & poëtica
Johann Andreas Herbst

Year:  1653
Source: Imslp
Edition:
Translation:

 

Treatises
The Division-Violist, or an Introduction to the Playing upon a Ground, London
Christopher Simpson

Year: 1659
Source: Imslp
Edition:
Translation:

 

Treatises
Musicae practicae praecepta brevia, & exercitia pro tyronibus varia - Der rechte Weg zur Singekunst
Johann Crüger

Year:  1660

Source: Staatsbibliothek Berlin

Edition:
Translation:

 

Treatises
Compendium musicae
Wolfgang Caspar Printz

Year: 1668
Source: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek | Google books
Edition:
Translation:

 

Treatises
Airs à deux parties avec les second couplets en diminution
Joseph Chabanceau de La Barre

Year: 1669
Source: BNF
Edition:
Translation:

 

Treatises
Li primi albori musicali
Lorenzo Penna

Year: 1672
Source: Imslp
Edition:
Translation:

 

Treatises
Musica modulatoria vocalis oder manierliche und zierliche Singkunst
Wolfgang Caspar Printz

Year: 1678
Source: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Edition:
Translation:

 

Treatises
L’Art de bien chanter
Bénigne de Bacilly

Year: 1679
Source: Imslp
Edition:
Translation:

 

Learning materials for diminutions
Die Lehre von der vokalen Ornamentik
Hugo Goldschmidt

Year: 1907
Source: Archive
Edition:
Translation:

 

Treatises
Von der Singe-Kunst oder Manier
Christoph Bernhard

Year:  ca. mid. 17th century

Source: (D-Bds mus. ms. theor. 76) | (D-Bds mus. ms. theor. autogr. Kuhnau) | (D-Bds mus. ms. thor. 85)

Edition:
Translation: English translation

 

Treatises
Varii esercitii
Antonio Brunelli

Year: 1614
Source:
Edition: Richard Erig
Translation dt.: Richard Erig

 

Treatises
Essempi delli passaggi delle consonanze et dissonanze
Valerio Buona

Year: 1596
Source: Essempi delli passaggi delle consonanze et dissonanze
Edition:
Translation:

 

Treatises
Istitvtioni Harmoniche
Gioseffo Zarlino da Chioggia

Year:  1558
Source: IMSLP
Edition:
Translation:

 

Treatises
Instructio Nova
Spiridionis a Monte Carmelo

Year: 1670
Source: Spiridionis Nova Instructio
Edition:
Translation:

 

Treatises
Motetti a Voce Sola
Ignazio Donati

Year: 1636
Source: Motetti a Voce Sola libro 2
Edition:
Translation:

 

Treatise
Musicalischer-Trichter, dadurch ein geschickter Informator seinen Informandis die Edle Singe-Kunst nach heutiger Manier … einbringen kan
Martin Heinrich Fuhrmann

Year:  1706
Source: IMSLP, Von allerhand Manieren VII. Capitel
Edition:
Translation: