Thorny path of passus duriusculus – performing chromatic, music-related gestures

Cremona 18th Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music
July 10th–15th 2018


In the lecture-part of the concert I pose a question, whether chromaticism could be comprehended, and performed, as a gesture, and thus experienced as a movement in a (musical) landscape. What kind of gestural is there embedded in the chromatic passages?

Cremona 18th Biennial of Baroque Music

Program:

Tarquinio Merula (1595–1665): Canzona Cromatica

Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583–1643): Canzona Terza

Johann Jacob Froberger (1616–1667): Fantasia sopra Sollare

Alessandro Poglietti (?–1683) : Toccatina sopra alla Ribellione, di Ungheria, Galop, Allemande La Prisonnie, Courante Proces, Les Kloches
Girolamo Frescobaldi: Toccata Undecimi

Girolamo Frescobaldi: Così mi disprezzate

Harpsichord, Assi Karttunen

Kuva Minna Karppanen

Cremona kuva 3 Minna Karppanen otti

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