The Practice of Embellishments During Giuseppe Tartini’s Lifetime

Rubagotti, Camilla (author)

This paper is aimed to give an overview of the European musical context of Tartini’s rules for embellishments. By underlining similarities and differences in treatises and methods pu­blished during the violinist’s lifetime, it thus underlines how many points of view coexisted in Europe in the early Eighteenth century.

• Language: English
• Keywords: mbellishments, Tartini, eighteenth-century music
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 23.12.2025
• Year: 2025
• Number of pages: Str. 121-179
• Numbering: Vol. 61, no. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-179810
• ISSN: 0580-373X
• eISSN: 2350-4242
• DOI: 10.4312/mz.61.2.121-179
• Publication date in RUL: 25.02.2026

Record is a part of a proceedings

• Title: Contributions to Tartini studies
• COBISS.SI-ID: 269314051

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Muzikološki zbornik
• Shortened title: Muz. zb.
• Publisher: Založba Univerze v Ljubljani
• ISSN: 0580-373X
• COBISS.SI-ID: 16404226

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Okraševanje v času Giuseppeja Tartinija

Abstract

Članek želi dati vpogled v evropski glasbeni kontekst Tartinijevih pravil za okraševanje. Z opazovanjem podobnosti in razlik v razpravah oz. učbenikih, objavljenih v času violinistovega življenja, prikazuje pestrost pogledov na to vprašanje, ki so sobivali v Evropi na začetku osemnajstega stoletja.

• Keywords: okraševanje, Giuseppe Tartini, glasba 18. stoletja

Projects

• Funder: ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
• Project number: P6-0004
• Name: Raziskave glasbene preteklosti na Slovenskem