stefanovagnini30 ott 20201 minThe Modes before scalesIn the spirit of the scientific Renaissance thinking, many theorists tried to make sense and explain the modes. Often torn between...
stefanovagnini30 ott 20201 minGamut and Guidonian HandFrom the middle ages until well into the 18th century, the way people were taught how to read music was with a system called solmization....
stefanovagnini30 ott 20201 minTactus and ProportionsTactus and proportions are one of the infamously controversial issues in the theory of music between the 15th and 17th centuries. As much...
stefanovagnini30 ott 20201 minWhat is Temperament?An introduction to the complex subject of temperaments with the tuning expert Johannes Keller. Includes an historical overview and...
stefanovagnini30 ott 20201 minA new way of composing music: a cultural revolutionTowards the end of the 16th century, the theorist Giovanni Maria Artusi had enough of seeing the lack of respect young composers...
stefanovagnini30 ott 20201 minImprovisation around 1600When we talk about improvisation nowadays, we can mean different things: from truly inventing something from scratch ex-tempore, on the...