Ornamentation of Italian and French Baroque Vocal Music: Comparative Analysis of Historical Sources

Doctoral student: Saulė Šerytė
Supervisors: Prof. Vladimiras Prudnikovas, Dr. Laima Budzinauskienė
Department: Singing
Duration: 2010–2014

Abstract

Saulė Šerytė | photo Andrius Mikšys

The topic of the research paper by Saulė Šerytė – Ornamentation of Italian and French Baroque Vocal Music: Comparative Analysis of Historical Sources – is quite new in the Lithuanian musicology. Based on authentic written and musical sources of the 16^th-17^th centuries, the doctoral project looks into the specific nature of ornamentation of Italian and French baroque vocal music. Ornamentation is a significant component of baroque vocal music and its studies reveal stylistic differences in baroque music. The paper focuses on Italian and French baroque styles as the most influential and distinctive schools of baroque. The purpose of this artistic research is to analyse specific features of ornamentation in Italian and French baroque vocal music, thereby promoting the uptake of the historically-based performance in the Lithuanian performance practices. The paper also aims to deliver methodological benefits to Lithuanian singing teachers specialising in baroque vocal music. The paper focuses on the following composers and authors of treatises: G. Caccini, G. B. Bovicelli, F. Tosi in Italian baroque vocal music, M. P. de Montéclair, B. de Bacilly in the French school. The excerpts from treatises of these authors on the ornamentation will be for the first time translated into the Lithuanian language, published and analysed by Saulė Šerytė.