With a shared interest in how performers have shaped the music they worked with, Hannah Ely and Harry Buckoke founded Accenti, a project which explores ornamentation and intabulation practices in the Late 16th and 17th centuries.
Programmes
Orlando Furioso
This programme explores the voices of women in Ariosto’s epic poem. These settings by composers such as Jachet de Berchem, Giaches de Wert, Alfonso dalla Viola and Cipriano de Rore were written for the court in Ferrara, home to the Concerto delle Donne. Performed with voice and viol, we reconstruct techniques these virtuosic performers used to adapt music written as polyphony for solo performance. This programme features our own diminutions as well as exploring ‘spoken’ narrative over a ground bass.
The Artful Musician
Featuring a cast of art dealers, impresarios, poets and shepherds, Accenti’s programme explores the English tradition of vocal ornamentation in the 17th century recreating a soundworld that has been lost since the English civil war. Featuring incredibly ornate settings of Caccini’s most famous songs, these pieces share pages with “Englished” versions of famous Italian works and new pieces by composers such as Lanier, Webb and Wilson.
Videos
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