JSCM Volume 25 (2019) No. 1
Nicholas Till - “A Free and Knightly Art”: Monteverdi’s Toccata for Orfeo and the Neo-Chivalric Ideal in Early Seventeenth-Century Italy

Figure 7

Three excerpts from Girolamo Fantini, “Entrata Imperiale per sonare in concerto”: opening of entrata (top); continuation of entrata (middle), which leads eventually to a rotta in 6/4 and then the tuneful first “Imperiale” (bottom). Fantini, Modo per imparare a sonare di tromba..., Performers’ Facsimiles 211 (Frankfurt: Daniel Vuastch, 1638; reprint New York: Performers’ Editions, [2002]), 17-19. Page number and printer’s mark deleted from top image. By arrangement with Broude Brothers Limited.

Audio Examples 1 and 2

Excerpts from Girolamo Fantini, “Entrata Imperiale per sonare in concerto.” Realized from monophonic notation. In Audio 2 the performers abridge the piece as notated; on the reprise they will play it in its entirety. Battaglia! Baroque Battle Music for Trumpet Consort. Tibicines, directed by Igino Conforzi. Arts Productions Ltd., 2006, compact disc.

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