Ornaments
This added note often moves by step and leans dissonantly on consonant note.
What is the appoggiatura?
This describes the phenomenon in Italian where certain initial consonants are doubled, usually because of the previous word.
What is phrasal doubling?
What is rhyme?
This teacher wrote "A Complete Treatise on the Art of Singing" in two parts
Who is García?
This ornament does not take any rhythmic time of its own and moves by step, "crushing" the main note.
What is the acciaccatura?
These two words mean "and" and "is", both provoke phrasal doubling, and are pronounced differently.
What are "e and è"?
What is versi sciolti?
What is E4 or F4?
Messa di voce is an exercise to train this aspect of vocal technique.
What is registration?
This ornament has 4 or 5 notes.
This consonant is never pronounced in Italian as it is in English.
What is Z?
Words with accent pattern like tàvolo, indòmito, ascóltano are called this.
What is sdrucciolo?
In treatises writers would often refer to what vocal feat as a "shake"?
What is a trill?
The Baroque and Classical cadenza is on this chord
What is the 6/4 chord?
This ornament comes from the Italian word for "biting."
What is the mordent?
This is the consonant sound that the first N in Simon Boccanegra makes.
What is M?
Caro mio ben is an example of this line length.
What is a quinario?
Mengozzi compiled the Singing Method of which school?
This is what Italians would have called a tortorella.
What is a turtledove?
This is the German word for "slide" - the ornament of attack that fills out a third or fourth.
What is the Schleifer?
This aspect of sentence construction was not important in Latin at all but can be confusing in Italian poems.
What is syntax or word order?
What consonant was often removed from verb conjugations in poetic Italian to conform to poetic meter?
What is V?
This theorist published a book of "Songs and Duetts" where he published the notated music as well as the way it was sung, giving us a lot of information about appoggiaturas and ornaments.
Who is Corri?
Notes in these kind of rhythms generally have written accents in Italian music.
What are syncopations?