...dedicated to her, Kenton: 'A faded laurel wreath', and Newcomb: 'The three anthologies for Laura Peverara'. now with long trills, now with short, or again with...which will be known to persons more experienced than I . . . 's Giustiniani's treatise is usually believed to have been written about 163o, and it can be...

...concerted virtuoso ornamentation, but also performed madrigals in a markedly theatrical manner: . . . they moderated or increased their voices, loud or...which was never interrupted or suppressed by passages [fwssaggi] and other embellishments. nary feeling and a particular talent to make the words clearly...

...breaking off sometimes with a gentle sigh, now singing long passages legato or detached, now gruppi, now leaps, now with long trills, now with short, or...never interrupted or suppressed by passages and other embellishments.5 The care that the ladies took in their use of florid ornamentation may have reflected...

...exquisite passages [passaggi] delivered at opportune points, but not in excess. (Giovanni Luca [Conforto] of Rome, who also served at Ferrara, usually erred...which will be known to persons more experienced than I.6 Despite the time that had lapsed between this event and Giustiniani's recounting of it, Giustiniani's...

...long trills, now with short, and again with sweet running passages sung softly, to which sometimes one heard an echo answer unexpectedly. They accompanied...never interrupted or suppressed by passages and other embellishments.67 Much of what Giustiniani describes lies within the framework of the sixteenth-century...

...mouth or hands or body which might not express the feeling of the song. They made the words clear m such a way that one could hear even the last syllable...which was never interrupted or suppressed by passages [passagi] and other embellishments. {pitwewe of Given Duke Vincenzo's taste for the theater, the pastoral,...

...the demands of the piece they were singing; now slow, breaking off sometimes with a gentle o o' C? o sigh, now singing long passages legato or detached,...which was never interrupted or suppressed by passages [passaggi] and other embellishments. (Letter of Vincenzo Giustiniani, qtd. in Whenham, Orfeo 5) Francesco's...

...trills, now with short . . . accompanied with appropriate facial expressions, glances, gestures . . . They made the words clear in such a way that one could hear even the last syllable of every word. (MacClintock, 1994, p. 29) The kind of event described here has many of the conditions necessary for...