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Creation Date
2024
Description
Sing as You Speak – Phrasing in early 17th-century music. Discussion of period sources and examples of adding pauses to spoken text (Shakespeare’s “To be or not to be” from Hamlet) and songs (Campion’s “There is none, O none but you” and Dowland’s “Awake sweet love”).
Keywords
bel canto, singing, historically informed singing, HIP, rhetoric, oratory, phrasing, punctuation, pauses, cadence