On the Performance Practice of Andrea Antico's Frottole intabulate da sonare organi, libro primo (Rome, 1517)

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• Abstract(s)
  • Andrea Antico’s 1517 print of keyboard intabulations of frottolas is rather well known to modern scholars, mostly because it is the first print of keyboard repertoire in Italy. Frottolas were a codified genre where a strophic text often predated the music and followed strict literary rules. Since Antico published instrumental arrangements, the texts are not immediately visible, yet they were very well known to the reader of those days. How was the music then performed when no text was heard? How was this monodic repertoire understood by the contemporaries? Did the player infer the correct accentuation of the music from an implicit text? If so, a correct understanding of the meter and of poetical conventions would be an essential element for an adequate performance of Antico’s arrangements of this vocal repertoire.
• Date Issued 2024
• Author(s) Falcone, Fabio Antonio
  
• DOI 10.21939/HARPSICHORD-16C-07
• Publication Type book part
• Language en
• License CC-BY-4.0
• Publisher mdwPress