![]() ![]() Similarly on the low-tension strings of early harps, a Good note can have a slow finger-movement. ![]() Thus, baroque violin teachers will often coach modern string-players to use a slow bow-stroke where an “accent” is needed. In the mediterranean languages, the accented syllable is not hit suddenly on the intial consonant, but gets its accent from a sustained weight on the vowel: this corresponds to Leopold Mozart’s description of a slow start to the bow-stroke, even on a loud note. ![]() In modern terms, we would say accented and unaccented syllables. In music and in poetics, these syllables are sometimes called Long/Short: Good is Long, Bad is Short. Good/Bad notes in music correspond to Good/Bad syllables in speech. This is a high priority question for period writers. For flute, this articulation is done with tonguing syllables string instruments do it with bow-strokes keyboard and harp do it with fingering patterns. And not the other way around”. The structure of each mid-18th-century Versuch is a short introduction to musical fundamentals, followed by a large section on what Early Musicians call “articulation”: how to start a note, how to join or separate notes into short groups. Caccini (1601) writes that Music is “text & rhythm, with sound last of all. In vocal music, the sung text is of paramount importance. The underlying principle is that instrumental music imitates the human voice, playing as if the music had a text. The concept of Good/Bad notes is fundamental to renaissance and baroque music, and is given a lot of attention in historical sources. What are Good & Bad notes, are they just loud & soft? It’s always good to assess from historical sources how significant your question was, in the dialetic of the period. This is a significant distinction: what we today think is a high priority may not have been so important back then. Whereas in previous articles, the agenda was set by the historical priorities of period sources, in this post the questions were posed by today’s students. The questions below were asked by students in the final class, and/or arose from work-in-progress recordings of their baroque pieces that they sent me for private comments. Links to all of these sources and more, in the previous posts. Bach, Mozart) and the principal sources consulted were the three Versuch publications around the middle of the century (Quantz, CPE Bach, Leopold Mozart), the Essai for harp by Meyer, and (back in 1698) Muffat’s remarks on French dance-style in Florilegium Secundum. Our focus was on the 18th century (specific works by J. Previous articles in the series discuss Historical Principles & Online Resources, Principles & Practice, Ornamentation and Dance Music. This article could make a useful introduction for any modern instrumentalist or singer. Although our case-studies come from harp repertoire, the principles we explored are relevant for any Historically Informed performer. For pinpoint searches, look for tagged notes that contain specific text.This is the last in a series of articles following up classes on Early Music on Modern Harps that I taught this semester for the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London. You can also tag notes using built-in categories and search for tagged notes with one click. A single click on a result takes you to that note. Notes lets you search all open notebooks for any text, and shows you the results in context. Finding a specific note a week later is another. With Notes you can change the appearance of everything on the page, from the color and font of text to the background color of the page and whether it has rule lines - even put a picture behind all the notes like a watermark.īut you can also change the look of the Notes program itself! We prefer the colorful tabs shown above, but if you find them distracting you can change the tab colors, remove the tab colors, or just give up on the tabs altogether and use a traditional Mac interface.Ĭreating a notebook is one thing. All the open notebooks are shown in one window, for easy navigation and quick jumps. Notebooks are organized into sections (the larger tabs on the left in the image above), each of which contains as many pages as you like. Put two snippets of text right next to each other. There are no rules for where things have to go: put an image beside text, or under it. Pages can contain almost anything: formatted text, images, movies, audio clips, PDF files, tables, lists, web and file links, and drawings you create in Notes. ![]() Scrapbook your images, web links, and video clips. Organize research projects, trips, to-do lists, or journals. Growly Notes lets you capture everything you’re interested in, all in one place. Gather text, images, links and anything else you can think of in free-form pages organized into sections. Growly Notes is a note-taking app somewhat like Microsoft OneNote. ![]()
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