The English Virginal Variations in Elizabethan Period

• Main Authors: Huang Yai Hwei, 黃雅慧
• Other Authors: Lee Mei-wei
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 1998
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/27646613024289911267

碩士 === 國立中山大學 === 音樂研究所 === 86 === This thesis aims to deal with the virginal music prevailing in England frommid of the 16th to the 17th century. Characterized by the variations, the musicreached its peak during the reign of Queen Elizabeth. The thesis is divided into four chapters. The first chapter tries to make a survey of the background ofthe virginal music, including its development, collections, distinguished composers and the development of keyboard variations during the Renaissance Era.The second chapter discusses two types of virginal variations, including cantus firmus variations and dance variations. The third chapter goes into the performance practice issues of virginal music, concentrating on ornamentation and fingering. The final chapter concludes and command on the three chapters above. Virginal variations in England was chiefly under the influence of Italian composers and Spanish composers. The four traditional composition techniques of variations in the cantus firmus variations and six-section form in the dance variations were uniquely developed by virginal music composers. All these together with virtuoso as a way of creativity, the virginal music was elevated to asubtle artistic world. As to the problems of performance practice, because of incomplete sources,we can only use the limited information to decide how toornament and to use the fingering according to the remaining manuscripts and the researches of contemporary scholars'. In order to understand the development of keyboard music and accurate articulation for early keyboard music, to study virginal music is essential for keyboardists.