Ribattuta or Ribattuta di gola is a musical
ornament found in Italian and German works of the 17th and 18th centuries.
Execution
The ornament is a trill on a long-short dotted rhythm accelerating to end on either a
tremolo
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or a regular
trill
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Sources
The ornament is described by
Mattheson (1739), Spiess (1745), and
Marpurg
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(1749).
Frederick Neumann notes the trill following the dotted preparation is a main-note trill (that is, starting on the written note), and he cautions against use of the term as a general descriptor for dotted alternation as a prelude to a trill.
Nomenclature
Italian: ribattuta (f) di gola
German: ''der Zurückschlag'' or ''der gedehnte oder punctirte Triller'' (Mattheson)
English: ribattuta
French: ribattuta (f) or ''tour de gosier'' (Marpurg) or ''cadence pleine à progression'' (Lacassagne) or ''double cadence'' (Bérard-Blanchet)
[{{cite book, last=Bérard, first=Jean-Antoine, title=L'Art du chant, year=1755, location=Paris]
References
Ornamentation