Studies in historical improvisation from Cantare super librum to partimenti / edited by Massimiliano Guido.
In recent years, scholars and musicians have become increasingly interested in the revival of musical improvisation as it was known in the Renaissance and Baroque periods. This historically informed practice is now supplanting the late Romantic view of improvised music as a rhapsodic endeavour - a m...
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Table of Contents:
- Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of music examples; Foreword; Preface; Notes on contributors; Introduction: Studies in historical improvisation a new path for performance, theory, and pedagogy of music; PART I 'Con la mente e con le mani': Music and the art of memory; 1 The improvisatory moment; 2 Musical inventio, rhetorical loci, and the art of memory; 3 Climbing the stairs of the Memory Palace: Gestures at the keyboard for a flexible mind; PART II Mprovising vocal music; 4 Toward a stylistic history of Cantare super Librum.
- 5 Contrapunto and fabordón: Practices of extempore polyphony in Renaissance Spain6 Discovering the practice of improvised counterpoint; PART III Improvising keyboard music; 7 Composing at the keyboard: Banchieri and Spiridion, two complementary methods; 8 Partimento teaching according to Francesco Durante, investigated through the earliest manuscript sources; 9 Partimento and incomplete notations in eighteenth-century keyboard music; PART IV Nova et vetera: Pedagogy; 10 Teaching theory through improvisation.
- 11 Learning tonal counterpoint through keyboard improvisation in the twenty-first centuryBibliography; Index.