Le Nuove Musiche: Giovanni Battista Bovicelli? Page: 9
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MUSICAL ORNAMENTATION IN PRACTICE
Ornamentation Practices in the Manual of Girolamo Dalla Casa
Girolamo Dalla Casa was the first instrumental director of St. Mark's Basilica in
Venice.17 He wrote a two-part treatise of ornamentation, I1 Vero Modo di Diminuir, in 1584.
This treatise is mainly an instruction manual that teaches the reader (or musician) on the art of
ornamentation. The first part presents the use of diminutions of intervals and cadences, while the
second portion presents complete examples of divisions in complete pieces.
The elements of Dalla Casa diminution style emerge in the second part of the treatise
where he incorporates the use of ornamentation in complete pieces. The first element is the
treatment of divisions in stepwise motion in mainly eighths and sixteenths where all the notes
align with note pitches of the original cantus. This is demonstrated in Example 1 where the
divisions in stepwise motion are in eighths and sixteenths and the notes align with the pitches of
the original cantus.
Example 1. Opening of Oncques Amours [Crequillon 1553]18
t (no text here)7 nc - qucs a - mour
O)n - - - - _ _ - __. . . . I _J a -
I o- tMmm ttt: === ==17 Selfridge-Field, Eleanor, Venetian Instrumental Music From Gabrieli to Vivaldi. (New York: Praeger
Publishers, 1975), 14.
18 Thomas Crecquillon, "Oncques amour," in Italienische Diminutionen. Die Zwischen 1553 und 1638
mehrmals berarbeiteten scitze, ed. Richard Erig and Veronika Gutmann. (Zuirich: Amadeus Verlag, 1979), 123.Cantus
Dalla Casa
Cant.
Dalla Casa
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