Tirata

Tirata ( Italian tirata , lit. - stretching; French tirade , also coulade, German Zug, Anlauffigur ), in music - decoration in the form of a gamma-shaped diatonic ascending or descending passage between two sustained sounds on the model of dimination, as well as a graceful of several sounds ^[1] .

Tirata could be recorded by composers, indicated by a conventional sign, but often was the result of improvisations by performers. Especially widely entered into use since the XVII century, and the first mention of the term appeared in the works of music theorists of the late XVI - early XVII centuries. ^[one]

In the “Musical Dictionary” by I. G. Walter , four types of tyrants are distinguished: ^[1]

• mezza - half (range of quarts, fifths);
• defective - incomplete (more than a fifth, but less than an octave);
• perfecta - full (octave range);
• aucta, or excedens, - increased (more than an octave).

Understood as a musical rhetorical figure of a tyrant, he bears the image of an “arrow”, a “shot”. Therefore, in musical works it was often accompanied by appropriate words of the text: “run”, “shoot”, “throw”, etc.