The Scroll Ensemble

I’m very excited to announce our first online course in baroque ornamentation. We will start with a first day to see how it works out and then build onwards from there. Apply at the bottom of the page! What? We dive into ornamentation for a slow movement with Johann Joachim …

Hello! This month we have been busy with Tartini’s ornamentation treatise. First we talked about trills and other ornaments, as helpfully described by him: Tartini also talks about so-called natural modes. These are ornaments that even unschooled “amateur” musicians are automatically making, given that they have ‘Nature’s gift for music’. Tartini …