Tim BraithwaiteImprovising on a Plainchant (Chanter sur le Livre) as described in Early Nineteenth-Century France‘... France, where musical taste has always been somewhat backwards, has never abandoned the mania for improvising on plainchant. The...
Tim BraithwaiteLuigi Zenobi on the Role of the Inner Voices in Polyphonic Singing (c.1600)Since we’ve already seen Zenobi’s comments on the requirements for a soprano (https://www.cacophonyhistoricalsinging.com/post/luigi-zenob...
Tim BraithwaiteLuigi Zenobi’s Instructions for the Perfect Soprano (c.1600)There remains the soprano, which is truly the ornament of all other parts, just as the bass is the foundation. The soprano...