Anarmonia “so wird aus dem Ferckel ein Ass”, or Substantionally covering a non-existent problem
Abstract
Our article discusses the hypothesis about the possibility of the existence in the 17th to 18th century performance practice of a certain “inner-metric agogic” erroneously posited by Professor S. M. Maltsev of St. Petersburg State Conservatory. Based on the analysis of a significant number of historical documents and materials the authors came to the conclusion that Professor Maltsev’s hypothesis is founded on an erroneous interpretation of early sources and contradicts the immutable postulate: the measure [Tact] (“the soul of music” according to the terminology nomenclature of that time) must be beaten regularly/equally. The uneven/irregular beating of the measure — i.e. the “inner-metric agogic” — early music writers have defined by the term Anarmonia, that is “in German — swine [eine Anarmonia, auff Teutsch/ein Ferckel]” (M. Fuhrmann, 1706) and compared it with a cat’s concert, barking of dogs, and a herd of pigs.
Keywords:
Taktenlehre, tempo, rhythm, baroque music
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