Expressive Intonation as Rhetoric in the Performance Practice of Instrumental Ensemble Music in London (1650-1720)

Gries, Margret

Expressive Intonation as Rhetoric in the Performance Practice of Instrumental Ensemble Music in London (1650-1720)

dc.contributor.advisor	Vanscheeuwijck, Marc	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Gries, Margret	en_US
dc.creator	Gries, Margret	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2012-10-26T01:43:27Z
dc.date.available	2012-10-26T01:43:27Z
dc.date.issued	2012
dc.description.abstract	Descartes’ Compendium musicae and Lamy’s La Rhétorique ou l’art de parler, both published in English translation in London in the late seventeenth century, suggest approaches to period performance practice that support expressive intonation as a rhetorical device. Descartes’ unique perspective on musical pitch and intervals provides a methodology for understanding inflected intonation in performance. Closely aligned with Descartes’ epistemological perspective, Lamy’s treatise provides an understanding of expressive intention as essential to effective rhetorical delivery. These approaches are applied to musical examples from trio sonatas of Arcangelo Corelli, John Ravenscroft and Henry Purcell, demonstrating that expressive intonation using subtle pitch inflection can be explained as a rhetorical practice. These subtle pitch inflections, related as they are to both rhetorical delivery and intonation systems, are not reflected in notation but realized only as music is heard in time. It is in performance contexts that pitch inflection can be realized as an expressive device. A supplemental audio file contains five short examples demonstrating pitch deviation applied to selected intervals.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1794/12344
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	University of Oregon	en_US
dc.rights	All Rights Reserved.	en_US
dc.subject	Compendium musicae	en_US
dc.subject	Descartes	en_US
dc.subject	Expressive intonation	en_US
dc.subject	Lamy	en_US
dc.subject	Performance practice	en_US
dc.subject	Tuning and temperament	en_US
dc.title	Expressive Intonation as Rhetoric in the Performance Practice of Instrumental Ensemble Music in London (1650-1720)	en_US
dc.type	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation	en_US