The art of ornaments

This collection presents sketches and exercises of Karl Cherni (1791 - 1857), which develop various options for textured diminuing and coloring (crushing the main tones of the melody into groups of smaller notes)
The art of ornaments in music has been known since time immemorial: even the musicians of India, ancient Greece and Rome sought to "bloom" with the lealisms of the melody. The tendency to improvisation and decoration of musical tissue in vocal and instrumental music was also characteristic of subsequent centuries, especially for the XVI - XVII centuries (the work of Palestrina, Orlando Lassella) - periods that were marked, in particular, by the free interpretation of the functions of the performer -interpreter . Outstanding masters of the XVIII - XIX centuries, primarily I. S. Bach, F. E. Bach, L. Beethoven, considered it necessary to free ornaments from elements of chance, in lemon balm they saw not arbitrary decoration of the melody, texture, but a "reflection of internal musical dynamics , due to the logic of the development of musical thought in general "(Beethoven)