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Yeah. Absolutely. I'd like to note that the current notation system was never designed to be a comprehensive guide to a performance any more than Plainchant Notation, until mid 19th century the finishing work was given largely to the performers. It's mostly Rossini's fault, him getting fed up with shitty soloists doing runs all over his pieces.
If you look at soloist copies and autographs, there are shitloads of additional symbols in 17th-18th century music. There were between 9 and 22 different types of trills (upwards, downwards, same note trill, pressed vibrato, glottal stopped, played on the palate, bounced off the diaphragm.)
Performers notated musical colouring, turns, the type of portamento, the exact shape of mezza di Voce, when to add vibrato, how to attack the note beyond Legato-Staccato, Really complex phrasing. All things that are lost in modern vocal music.
The notation varied from region to region and from teacher to teacher but most people could look at a score and follow that performance notation.
Yeah. Absolutely. I'd like to note that the current notation system was never designed to be a comprehensive guide to a performance any more than Plainchant Notation, until mid 19th century the finishing work was given largely to the performers. It's mostly Rossini's fault, him getting fed up with shitty soloists doing runs all over his pieces.
If you look at soloist copies and autographs, there are shitloads of additional symbols in 17th-18th century music. There were between 9 and 22 different types of trills (upwards, downwards, same note trill, pressed vibrato, glottal stopped, played on the palate, bounced off the diaphragm.)
Performers notated musical colouring, turns, the type of portamento, the exact shape of mezza di Voce, when to add vibrato, how to attack the note beyond Legato-Staccato, Really complex phrasing. All things that are lost in modern vocal music.
The notation varied from region to region and from teacher to teacher but most people could look at a score and follow that performance notation.