Screams and Onomatopoeia in the work of Antonius Arena
In his manual of choreographic pedagogy, Ad suos compagnones (1531) and his memoires titled Meygra Entrepriza(1537), Arena elaborates a theatrical soundtrack of war with the fracas of artillery and military songs, and the ballroom with music and beating feet. This illustration of sound utilizes all the vocal procedures that are offered by Latin, Italian and Occitan. While underlining human emotions, the author successfully transcends the macaronic triglossia in order to speak to the ears of those who ignore the latin, and in order to bring us the far echo of the Renaissance as Mother of arms and dances.