Interpolation (music)
An interpolation (from Latin interpolare “to reshape, falsify, distort”) is an insertion in musicology that is not originally intended at the relevant point in the work or the musical form. In contrast to the philological-text-critical use of the term, the focus is not on the distorting or falsifying a given, but rather the creative character of the interpolation.
Sacred music and opera
In liturgical music, interpolation denotes, on the one hand, the expanding and embellishing dripping of one of the fixed or changing parts of the mass according to the occasion of the church year, and , on the other hand, the insertion of independent chants or songs that lead to given parts or form their conclusion. In the latter meaning, the interpolation is distinguished from the substitution, as it happens when a part sung in unison with the polyphonic execution of the same text or another text and then, in addition to interpolation, one of the two possibilities is to add motets to the liturgical ceremony integrate.
In the same way, the terms interpolation and substitution are also used for the practice of opera performance , which was common until the middle of the 19th century , of inserting arias from outside the work into the staging of an opera in order to give a prominent singer the opportunity to perform one of his bravura pieces or to meet the public's taste by adding particularly popular pieces.
Popular forms of music
Similar to the tropising interpolations of sacred music, one speaks of interpolations in folk or popular music contexts when interjections , onomatopoeic embellishments or non-meaningful sound sequences are to be identified as insertions in the actual song text. In relation to blues , jazz and pop music , the term interpolation is also used especially for insertions that have the character of a melodic and possibly also textual quotation from their own or someone else's repertoire.
Serial and twelve-tone music
In twelve-tone music and other serial technology with non-twelve-tone rows, one speaks of an interpolation when an interval or segment is inserted that comes from another row or is otherwise alien to the current row.
Individual evidence
- ^ Clemens Blume, Poetry of High Mass in the Middle Ages , in: Voices from Maria Laach 71 (1906), pp. 18–38, p. 20
- ↑ Rafael Köhler, The Capella Sistina under the Medici Popes 1513-1534: Music maintenance and repertoire at the papal court in Rome , Verlag Ludwig, Kiel 2001, p. 174ff., ISBN 3-933598-30-3
- ↑ Hilary Rachel Poriss, Artistic license: Aria interpolation and the Italian operatic world, 1815-1850 , Diss. University of Chicago, 2000, cf. Dissertation Abstracts International 61 (2001), No. DA9990584; this., A Madwoman's Choice: Aria Substitution in 'Lucia di Lammermoor' , in: Cambridge Opera Journal 13 (2001), pp. 1-28
- ↑ Katharine Cartwright, "Guess These People Wonder What I'm Singing": Quotation and Reference in Ella Fitzgerald's "St. Louis Blues ” , in: David Evans (Ed.), Ramblin 'on My Mind: New Perspectives on the Blues , University of Illinois Press, Urbana 2008, pp. 281–327