SINGING STYLES AND NUANCES THROUGH DIFFERENT MUSICALERAS

📄 Project Abstract

The essence of this performance is to give a scholarly, practical knowledge on how historical music are supposed to be performed. All the complicated descriptions and guidelines in the ancient dissertations and their contemporary interpretations still have too many controversial contradictions and hanging questions.This performance's objective is to provide the right tool for variety and not to replicate historical or antique singers alone. This is because, even when contemporary singers and researchers sensitively interpret the music to the best of our ability, we can only provide a vague sense of what singers in the past actually sounded like. It would cover specific subjects including legato, portamento, notation and word painting, vibrato, rubato, and more. The features of the era will be demonstrated in this performance. 2.0 BACKGROUND TO THE PERFORMANCE 2.1 Renaissance period (1400 - 1600) The renaissance period can be dated from the 15th century to the 16th century. A time in Eu...