In my master’s thesis, I presented the life and work of the composer Girolamo Frescobaldi, with a focus on his First Book of Toccatas. This is followed by an explanation of certain stylistic features of music during Frescobaldi’s time and an insight into the musical terminology of the period. Since this terminology is very rarely addressed in the Slovene language, I drew on scholarly literature in German, Italian, and English for the theoretical background. The main part of the thesis is a translation of Frescobaldi’s preface to the Toccatas.
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