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(Fr.).
See Crotchet (quarter-note); quart is also used. See also Note values.
Nōkan.
Transverse bamboo flute, with seven fingerholes, of the Japanese nō theatre. It is also used in dance music (nagauta), off-stage music of the kabuki theatre (geza) and some folk musics. The nōkan resembles the ryūteki in many ways (the internal metal weight, the bark wrapping, the lacquered bore etc.), and it is assumed that it developed from the ryūteki, although this development cannot be charted historically. But the nōkan is of a much more complex construction. It is about 40 cm long and is fashioned not from a single tube of bamboo but from three to six short lengths joined together. In addition, some older flutes were made from lengths of bamboo which had been split lengthwise into several segments and then reassembled – possibly to adjust the bore, but the reason is not known for certain. The type of bamboo used is medake (Nipponocalamus simonii). The nōkan’s most distinctive feature (of unknown origin) is the nodo (‘throat’), a short tube inserted in the bore between the mouth-hole and the nearest fingerhole; it causes the overblown octave to be sharp at the lower end and flat at the top. On a typical flute the internal diameter is approximately 11 mm at the nodo and 16 mm near the closest fingerhole, tapering again to 11 mm at the lower end.
Since the nōkan does not share a melody with another instrument or with the voice there is less need for a pitch standard than there is with the ryūteki, and individual flutes may vary somewhat both in basic pitch and in interval structure. This variation is not, however, related to the differences in schools of performers. A typical range is about b–f'''. Visually the most obvious distinctions between these two types of flute are that the red lacquer of the nōkun’s bore extends to the surface through the fingerholes, and that the ornament (kashiragane) embedded in the left end is generally of metal in the case of the nōkan but is embroidered on a red ground in the ryūteki.
Nōkan technique features many cross-fingerings (unlike the ryūteki), constant delicate ornamentation and pitch gliding; the execution of these features varies both between schools and among individuals within each school. The repertory consists of several dozen named pieces with specific uses, as well as some less fully structured pieces; much of it falls into stock phrases of one or more eight-beat bars. In nagauta and geza music one flautist is in charge of both the nōkan and another transverse flute, the shinobue. Nō pieces are used especially in plays and dances derived from nō plays but also, for example, to set an elevated mood; the pieces are of necessity greatly truncated. In certain local festival musics several less well-made (i.e. cheaper) nōkan may be used together to play simple melodies.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
W.P. Malm: Japanese Music and Musical Instruments (Rutland, VT, 1959), 119ff
D. Berger: ‘The Nō-kan: its Construction and Music’, EthM, ix (1965), 221–39
R. Emmert and Y. Minegishi, eds.: Musical Voices of Asia: Tokyo 1978
A. Tamba: The Musical Structure of Noh (Tokyo, 1981), 147
‘Fue’, Ongaku daijiten [Encyclopedia of music] (Tokyo, 1981)
DAVID W. HUGHES
Nola [Nolla], Giovanni Domenico da [Giovanni Domenico del Giovane da]
(b Nola, between 1510 and 1520; d Naples, May 1592). Italian composer and poet. As a founding member of the Accademia dei Sereni (1546–7), he fraternized with Neapolitan nobles including the celebrated lutenist, Luigi Dentice, and the Marchese della Terza, patron of Lassus. Nola was maestro di cappella at the SS Annunziata, Naples, from 1 February 1563 until his death. Recognized as an expert in the art of vocal ornamentation by Giovanni Camillo Maffei (Lettere, 1562), he taught singing to the girls at the Annunziata's ospedale and to the deacons of the seminary. His earliest publications, two books of Canzoni villanesche (1541), contain a total of 31 villanesche and 11 mascheratas. They were well received by other composers, including Donato, Lassus, Perissone, Scandello, Waelrant and Willaert, all of whom arranged some for four voices. In his parodistic treatments of deceitful love, Nola skilfully recreated dialectal speech patterns, drawing liberally upon local proverbs. The poetic forms are remarkably similar to those of an anonymous villanesca book (RISM 15375), although the musical styles are different. Nola's villanesche are characterized by lively points of imitation and passages of contrasting speeds, juxtaposed with humorous intent. Parallel 5ths, more frequent in the mascheratas, are in the villanesche normally confined to phrase endings. The napolitane of the 1560s are constructed in compact melodic phrases, lacking the sequences and varied repetitions of the earlier style, and contain longer chains of 5ths. The poems are gentler in tone (indicative of the transition to the canzonetta), and show a preference for changing rhymed couplets, e.g. ABB/CDD/EFF/GHH. Benacci published an undated book of Nola's poems which are identical in form and subject matter to those he set in the 1560s.
Nola's madrigal book of 1545 contains 29 compositions of which 22 are settings of Petrarch: one madrigal, six canzoni and 15 sonnets. Expressive dissonances such as false relations and delayed resolutions are precisely indicated by the careful application of accidentals. The textures are mainly imitative but with a homophonic orientation that indicates attention to text accentuation and meaning; repetition of the final phrase is common. The note nere style predominates and passaggi are used for descriptive and ornamental purposes: a characteristic device is a sharply rising scale. In his second book of five-voice madrigals Nola returned to alla breve writing. This volume contains six settings of Petrarch sonnets divided in the usual two partes. Some of his madrigals are notable for their advanced harmonic language, for example Giunta m'ha amor (15627). The madrigals Nola contibuted to Barrè's anthologies (suggesting connections with Rome if not residence there) have a freely declamatory quality. One text he set in this arioso style, Tosto che'l sol si scopre in oriente (155527), is cited in a Neapolitan chronicle as a popular song.
WORKS
All complete surviving works edited in Cammarota
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Liber primus motectorum, 5vv (Venice, 1549), inc.
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Cantiones vulgo motecta appellatae … omnis generis instrumentis cantatu commodissimae … liber primus, 5, 6vv (Venice, 1575), lost, cited in FétisB
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Canzoni villanesche … libro primo et secondo, 3vv (Venice, 1541), unique copy in PL-Kj, formerly believed lost
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Madrigali, 4vv (Venice, 1545)
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Il secondo libro de madrigali, 5vv (Rome, 1564), inc.
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Il primo libro delle villanelle alla napolitana, 3, 4vv (Venice, 156722); 1 intabulated for 1v, lute (157033)
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Il quarto libro di madrigali, 5, 6vv, lost (cited without printing information in Libri dei mandati, Archivio del Seminario Diocesano, Benevento)
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5 napolitane, 15669 (1 intab. lute, 156822); 5, 156610 (1 intab. lute, 156822); 7, 157018 (1 intab. 1v, lute, 157033)
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15 madrigals, 4–5vv, 154930, 155527, 155813, 156018, 156110, 15627, 158518, 16257
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EinsteinIM
B. Croce: ‘L'Accademia dei sereni’, Anedoti di varia letteratura, i (Naples, 1942/R), 302–9
B.M. Galanti: Le villanelle alla napolitana (Florence, 1954)
L. Cammarota, ed.: Gian Domenico da Nola: i documenti biografici e l'attività presso la SS Annunziata con l'opera completa (Rome, 1973) [incl. Eng. trans. of preface]
D.G. Cardamone: ‘The Debut of the Canzone villanesca alla napolitana’, Studi musicali, iv (1975), 65–130
D.G. Cardamone: ‘Forme musicali e metriche della canzone villanesca e della villanella alla napolitana’, RIM, xii (1977), 25–72
D.G. Cardamone: The Canzone Villanesca alla Napolitana and Related Forms, 1537 to 1570 (Ann Arbor, 1981)
J. Haar: ‘The “Madrigale arioso”: a Mid-Century Development in the Cinquecento Madrigal’, Studi Musicali, xii (1983), 203–19
DONNA G. CARDAMONE
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