Saltzstein, JenniferKvilhaug, Danur2016-05-132016-05-132016http://hdl.handle.net/11244/34687In this document I approach the performance of seventeenth-century vocal music via rhetorically-informed analytical procedures. I draw from primary sources such as Quintilian's Institutio Oratoria and several seventeenth and eighteenth-century treatises, as well as secondary literature on rhetoric and Historically Informed Performance. I then provide three case studies of analytical procedures in the performance of seventeenth century vocal music.RhetoricBaroqueVocal MusicHistorically Informed Performance