Title With passionate voice : re-creative singing in 16th-century England and Italy / Robert Toft.

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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

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Description	1 online resource
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary	'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.
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. The art of vocal delivery ; A garden of embellishment ; Action -- Part 4. Passionate ayres pronounced. The prosopopoeia in England ; Affetto cantando and consort singing in Italy -- Appendix. Understanding learned compositions -- The addition of sharps and flats.
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Subject	Vocal music -- England -- 16th century -- History and criticism.
	Vocal music.
	England.
Chronological Term	16th century
Genre/Form	Vocal music.
Subject	Vocal music -- Italy -- 16th century -- History and criticism.
	Italy.
	Singing -- England -- History -- 16th century.
	Singing.
	History.
	Singing -- Italy -- History -- 16th century.
	Vocal music -- Interpretation (Phrasing, dynamics, etc.)
	Performance practice (Music) -- History -- 16th century.
	Performance practice (Music)
Chronological Term	1500-1599
Genre/Form	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
	History.
	Electronic book.
	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Toft, Robert. With passionate voice 9780199382026 (DLC) 2014003118 (OCoLC)870147364
ISBN	9780199382040 (electronic book)
	0199382042 (electronic book)
	9780199382064 (electronic book)
	0199382069 (electronic book)
	9780199382026
	0199382026
	9780199382033
	0199382034

Title With passionate voice : re-creative singing in 16th-century England and Italy / Robert Toft.

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