Melisma

Creator: 
Robert Worle, tenor singer at the Akademie fuer Alte Musik Berlin, Marcus Creed, conductor; CAPRICCIO
Description: 

A melisma is a series of notes set to a single syllable of text.

Publisher: 
CAPRICCIO - Ein Produkt der Delta Musik GmbH
Contributor: 
Tucker Bilodeau
Rights: 
CAPRICCO, all rights reserved
Format: 
.wav
Language: 
Italian
Type: 
Sound
Source: 

An excerpt from the aria "A Dio ritornate" from La Conversione di Sant'Agostino by Johann Adolf Hasse.

Date: 
May 6-9, 1991
Location: 

Friednskirche Potsdam-Sanssouci

Subject: 

Vocal music, Solo voice, Oratorio, Opera.

Transcription: 

Italian text: "A Dio ritornate", the melisma occurs on the "na" syllable of "ritornate".

Original Format: 
CD recording
Duration: 
19 seconds
Bit Rate/Frequency: 
2822kbps/44.1kHz