Tomasz Jasiński is Professor at the Institute of Music at the Faculty of Arts of Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin. He received his PhD from the Catholic University of Lublin and his postdoctoral degree at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. He is the author of studies on early music as well as the Editor of the journal «Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Skłodowska. Artes».

• Contents: Emergence of a domestic musical rhetorical tradition in the Renaissance – The universal language of figures – Word interpretations – Figures and vernacular language – Oratorial aspects of instrumental music – Musical rhetoricians – The European context.

Tomasz Jasiński is Professor at the Institute of Music at the Faculty of Arts of Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin. He received his PhD from the Catholic University of Lublin and his postdoctoral degree at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. He is the author of studies on early music as well as the Editor of the journal «Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Skłodowska. Artes».

• Contents: Emergence of a domestic musical rhetorical tradition in the Renaissance – The universal language of figures – Word interpretations – Figures and vernacular language – Oratorial aspects of instrumental music – Musical rhetoricians – The European context.