TheCantastorie/Canterino/Cantimbancoas Musician
Blake Wilson
Many of the texts these oral poets survive, often bearing intriguing traces their origins, but what can we say about ‘canta’ that all three terms share, except singing was accompanied by instrument choice, lira da braccio, and music so thoroughly inhabited realm singer/poets it is entirely lost to us? In fact, there evidence be summoned make informed speculation possible, essential try, for clear musical delivery an ingredient canterino’s practice popularity. this article I approach subject in several ways: surviving archival records, which drop significant bits information playing canterini; cantasi come tradition Florence, reveals wide array (much traceable sources) circulated orally city connected some Florentine vernacular memory treatises linked 15th-century canterini, techniques suggest something how process improvisation rifacimento might have worked; finally know technical capabilities including kinds could been played on it, deployed performance. will also attempt address another knotty problem encountered documents related performers: interchangeable use verbs ‘cantare’ ‘recitare’.
Italian Studies