| Abstract [eng] |
In this research paper Italian and French Baroque vocal music ornamentation and its peculiarities have been explored. The ornamentation is one of the most important and distinctive elements of Italian and French Baroque style. The main sources of this research were treatises of Baroque era, forewords of collections of musical works where Italians Giovanni Battista Bovicelli (1550-1594), Giulio Caccini (1551-1618), Pier Francesco Tosi (1654-1732) and French Bertrand de Facilly (1724-1778), Michel Pignolet de Monteclaire (1667-1737), Jean Antoine Berard (1724-1778) analyzed vocal music ornamentation, indicated types of ornaments and produced rules or recommendations of their usage. Invoking analysis of historical sources similarities and differences of Italian and French Baroque vocal music ornamentation have been revealed. In appendices of the thesis, the very first Lithuanian translations of Baroque authors texts about the ornamentation are provided. It is the foreword of Caccini set “Le nuove musiche” (1602), the treatise of Bovicelli \"Regole, passaggi di musica\" (1594) and chapters 4-9 of the 3rd part of Berard's treatise \"L‘art du chant\". According to the sources explored in this work, a table of Baroque vocal music ornaments was made. This research paper supplements the spectrum of musicological research and it also has practical and methodological value for practice of Lithuanian performers and vocal pedagogues aiming for historically aware performance, vital interpretations of Baroque music. |
