Circulatio
Circulatio ( Latin circulus , dim. From circus , "circle", "ring"), also called Kyklosis ( ancient Greek κύκλος , "circle", "ring") is a term originally derived from rhetoric , which like other musical figures Found its way into the conceptual world of music of the 17th and 18th centuries.
Circulatio is a circling melody movement that is used to denote something round such as "crown", "earth" or words like circumdare ("surround") to express a surrounding movement. Apart from this clarifying effect, the figure is also counted by some authors as one of the "manners" .
According to Athanasius Kircher , circulatio is "a musical period in which the voices seem to move in a circle."
With Printz it says: "In the circolo mezzo , 4 fast notes form a semicircle when writing, whereby either the 1st and 3rd or the 2nd and 4th notes have the same position in ascending or descending order. When the circolo mezzo ascends it is a Intendens, if it goes down it is remittens. "
With Walther the following can be found: "A circolo is formed from 8 quick notes and is created when 2 circoli mezzi are attached to each other and form a perfect circle when placed on top of each other" (1732)
Sources and literature (chronological)
- Wolfgang Caspar Printz: Phrynidis Mitilenæi or the satyrical composer Ander Theil. Mieth and Zimmermann, Dresden and Leipzig 1696 ( digitized ).
- Johann Gottfried Walther: Musical Lexicon. Deer, Leipzig 1732 ( digitized version ).
- Dietrich Bartel: Handbook of musical figure theory Laaber-Verlag, Laaber 1985, ISBN 3-89007-340-9 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Bartel 1985, p. 121.