Toft, Robert - With Passionate Voice

With Passionate Voice gives modern singers of Renaissance music the tools to learn and master the art of re-creative singing. Providing a much-needed historically-informed perspective, author Robert Toft discusses the music of composers ranging from Marchetto Cara to John Dowland in the context of late Renaissance rhetoric, modal theory, and performance traditions.

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CONTENTS

Introduction
An Age of Rhetorical Persuasion
Part 1 Preparing the Text
Words Appropriately Fitted to the Notes
Part 2 Elocutio : Fine Words and Music
Every Trope, Every Figure
Part 3 Pronunciatio: Singing Eloquently and Acting Aptly
1. The Art of Vocal Delivery
All the Senses Satisfied
Accent and Emphasis
Pronouncing Distinctly
Figures and Passionate Ornaments Made Manifest
2. A Garden of Embellishment
Divisions
Graces
Part Songs
3. Action
Part 4 Passionate Ayres Pronounced
1. The Prosopopoeia in England
John Dowland, Sorrow stay
John Dowland, In darknesse let mee dwell
2. Affetto cantando and Consort Singing in Italy
Giulio Caccini, Deh dove son fuggiti
Claudio Monteverdi, Baci soavi e cari
Appendix
Understanding Learned Compositions
The Addition of Sharps and Flats
Glossary
References
Index