{"title":"“Now Quickly, Now Again Slowly”: Tempo Modification in and Around Praetorius","authors":"D. Marincic","doi":"10.3986/dmd15.1-2.03","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Michael Praetorius describes tempo modification in a variety of contexts. Performers changed the speed of the tactus according to text and music, to move the affects, in accordance with dynamics or scoring, to adjust to changes in prevailing note-values, and for reasons of variety. Such practices were an important part of performance aesthetics and are confirmed by a number of German and Italian sources.","PeriodicalId":38033,"journal":{"name":"De Musica Disserenda","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"De Musica Disserenda","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3986/dmd15.1-2.03","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Michael Praetorius describes tempo modification in a variety of contexts. Performers changed the speed of the tactus according to text and music, to move the affects, in accordance with dynamics or scoring, to adjust to changes in prevailing note-values, and for reasons of variety. Such practices were an important part of performance aesthetics and are confirmed by a number of German and Italian sources.
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De musica disserenda is an international journal of musical scholarship. It is published by the Institute of Musicology ZRC SAZU (Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts) at the ZRC Publishing (Založba ZRC). The journal is publishing musicological as well as interdisciplinary articles regarding music, with a special attention given to the texts on history of music on the territory of today’s Slovenia in wider European context. Individual issues of the journal with various dissertations are published twice a year, while thematic double issues are published at the end an individual year. The articles are published in Slovenian, English, German, French or Italian languages, with keywords and abstracts in English and Slovenian. A longer summary in Slovenian or English is given at the end of each article.