Studies in Historical Improvisation From Cantare super Librum to Partimenti

• Other Authors: Guido, Massimiliano (Editor)
• Format: Musical Score Book
• Language: English
• Published: LONDON Routledge 2017
• Subjects: Improvisation (musique) > 1500-1800; Improvisation (Music) > History
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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 mus...

Table of Contents:

• The improvisatory moment / Thomas Christensen ; Musical invention, rhetorical loci, and the art of memory / Stefano Lorenzetti ; Climbing the stairs of the memory palace : gestures at the keyboard for a flexible mind / Massimiliano Guido ; Toward a stylistic history of Cantare super librum / Philippe Canguilhem ; Contrapunto and fabordâon : practices of extempore polyphony in Renaissance Spain / Giuseppe Fiorentino ; Discovering the practice of improvised counterpoint / Jean-Yves Haymoz ; Composing at the keyboard : Banchieri and Spiridion, two complementary methods / Edoardo Bellotti ; Partimento teaching according to Francesco Durante, investigated through the earliest manuscript sources / Peter van Tour ; Partimento and incomplete notations in eighteenth-century keyboard music / Giorgio Sanguinetti ; Teaching theory through improvisation / Peter Schubert ; Learning tonal counterpoint through keyboard improvsation in the twenty-first century / Michael Callahan.