Rhythmic inequality (letter)

Title: Rhythmic inequality (letter)
Creator: Halton, Rosalind
Relation: Early Music Vol. 36, Issue 2, p. 350-351
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/em/can043
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2008
Description: John Byrt's article ‘Elements of rhythmic inequality in the arias of Alessandro Scarlatti and Handel’ (Early Music, xxxv/4 (2007), pp.609–26) presents a welcome and long overdue discussion of a recurrent rhythmic/stylistic issue facing performers of this repertory. The autograph cantata manuscripts of Alessandro Scarlatti give extra insight into the subject (the most substantial collections of extant autograph cantata manuscripts by Alessandro Scarlatti are those held in Münster, Santini Collection, dated 1701/2 (Ms. 3987) and in Yale, dated 1704–5 (Osborn Shelves Music 2)). Most of these are works for solo voice and basso continuo—providing a somewhat different perspective from that given by Byrt's study of operatic arias, but one which leads inescapably to a similar conclusion: it seems certain that Scarlatti assumed singers, but not instrumentalists, would read undotted semiquavers as unequal in some contexts, without being prompted by dotted notation.
Subject: Alessandro Scarlatti; cantata manuscripts
Identifier: uon:5644
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/43549
Identifier: ISSN:0306-1078

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