Farya Faraji | The Medieval European Singing Style and its Correspondence with Middle-Eastern Singing @faryafaraji | Uploaded October 2022 | Updated October 2024, 3 days ago.
In this video, I analyse how the overall singing style of European Medieval music was markedly different from current Classical conservatory techniques, and resembled current Greek, Arabic, Bulgarian or Turkish forms of singing far more—styles of singing defined by less precise pitch and florid melismatic delivery.
Sources:
"The Sound of Medieval Song, Ornamentation and Vocal Style According to the Treatises"
Timothy J. McGee, Latin translations by Randall A. Rosenfeld
"Ornamental" Neumes and Early Notation" Timothy J McGee
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1168&context=ppr
In this video, I analyse how the overall singing style of European Medieval music was markedly different from current Classical conservatory techniques, and resembled current Greek, Arabic, Bulgarian or Turkish forms of singing far more—styles of singing defined by less precise pitch and florid melismatic delivery.
Sources:
"The Sound of Medieval Song, Ornamentation and Vocal Style According to the Treatises"
Timothy J. McGee, Latin translations by Randall A. Rosenfeld
"Ornamental" Neumes and Early Notation" Timothy J McGee
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1168&context=ppr
