Ribattuta

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Ribattuta or Ribattuta di gola is a musical ornament found in Italian and German works of the 17th and 18th centuries.

Execution

The ornament is a trill on a long-short dotted rhythm accelerating to end on either a tremolo or a regular trill.

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Sources

The ornament is described by Mattheson (1739), Spiess (1745), and Marpurg (1749).

Frederick Neumann notes the trill following the dotted preparation is a main-note trill (that is, starting on the written note), and he cautions against use of the term as a general descriptor for dotted alternation as a prelude to a trill.

Nomenclature

Italian: ribattuta (f) di gola

German: der Zurückschlag or der gedehnte oder punctirte Triller (Mattheson)

English: ribattuta

French: ribattuta (f) or tour de gosier (Marpurg) or cadence pleine à progression (Lacassagne) or double cadence (Bérard-Blanchet)

References

References

  1. Randel, Don Michael. (1986). "The New Harvard Dictionary of Music". Harvard.
  2. Mattheson, Johann. (1739). "Der vollkommene Capellmeister".
  3. Spiess, Meinrad. (1745). "Tractatus musicus compositorio-practicus". Augsburg.
  4. Marpurg, Friedrich Wilhlem. (1750). "Des cristischen Musicus an der Spree erster Band (collected issues of the journal Der critische Musicus 1749-1750)".
  5. Neumann, Frederick. (1978). "Ornamentation in Baroque and Post-Baroque Music". Princeton University Press.
  6. Leuchtmann, Horst. (1979). "Terminorum musicae index septem linguis redactus". Bärenreiter.
  7. Lacassagne, L'abbe Joseph. (1766). "Traité géneral des élements du chant".
  8. Bérard, Jean-Antoine. (1755). "L'Art du chant".

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