The Solfeggio Tradition
A Forgotten Art of Melody in the Long Eighteenth Century
- Author: Baragwanath, Nicholas
Book
$85.25Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- Glossary of Technical Terms
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Discovering Solfeggio
- Section I - Context: Apprenticeship, Plainchant, and the Rudiments
- Chapter 2: Sepperl's Story: A Case Study in Music and Social Mobility
- Chapter 3: The Church Music Industry
- Chapter 4: Eighteenth-Century Plainchant--For Beginners
- Chapter 5: Canto Fermo and Canto Figurato
- Section II - Theory and Practice: Lessons in the Art of Melody
- Chapter 6: Speaking Solfeggio
- Chapter 7: Singing Solfeggio
- Chapter 8: Learning la sol fa mi, with Some Hints on Musical Grammar
- Chapter 9: Solano and Sabbatini on Modulation
- Section III - The Solfeggio Repertory: Types, Styles, and Genres
- Chapter 10: Defining Solfeggio
- Chapter 11: Unaccompanied Solfeggio
- Chapter 12: Accompanied Solfeggio
- Chapter 13: Solfeggio and Partimento
- Epilogue
- Chapter 14: Alternative Systems and the End of the Great Tradition
- Bibliography
- Index